Category: Current Affairs
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Philosophically, I am not opposed to the death penalty. However, I believe it should be abolished for a number of practical reasons.
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Watch this narrated photo essay of the People and Towers of the World Trade Center. It’s beautitful. It’s triumphal. It’s heart wrenching. It’s horrible. It’s sad. It’s reaffirming. It’s rebuilding.
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Those who are nostalgic for the unfulfilled promises of the good ole days of Bush-Cheney, must be salivating over the candidacy of Texas governor Rick "Goodhair" Perry. While George W.Bush and Perry have some outwardly common traits and backgrounds – faux cowboy swagger, multi-term governors of Texas, death penalty enthusiasts, tendency to shoot from the mouth about things they don't know, darlings of the…
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First publishted on 3Quarksdaily.com Pakistan and India are celebrating the 64th anniversary of “Freedom at midnight” with their usual mix of nationalism and jingoism (Bangladesh seems to ignore this nightmarish dream anniversary and will be mostly ignored in this article). The fashionable opinion about India (within and without, though perhaps less on the Indian left)…
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Headlines: Student Tiger Tamer Gets Mauled (Norman Costa) Barack Obama reminds me of Woodrow Wilson after WWI. Wilson and Obama are interesting contrasts. Wilson had a great deal to do with getting the League of Nations off the ground. The League was never really effective, but it paved the way for the United Nations. Wilson…
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Now, of course, the headlines are solidly focussed on the Norway shootings, and every article is accompanied by the photo with movie-star good looks of accused shooter Anders Behring Breivik. The initial reaction to the news seems to have been "Goody, another bad event that we can use as an excuse to talk about Islamist…
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Initially posted at 3 Quarks Daily. Most countries that exist above the banana-republic level of existence have an identifiable (even if always contested and malleable) national narrative that most (though not all) members of the ruling elite share and to which they contribute. Pakistan is clearly not a banana-republic; it is a populous country with…
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Cross posting from Brown Pundits.
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In case you were wondering how our increasingly silent blog friend feels, here's The Medium Lobster: But if there are several dozen things America loves, they are war, torture, genocide, chattel slavery, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, assassination, poverty, institutionalized bribery, remote-controlled flying death robots and somewhere down the list, between prison labor and lagoons of toxic pig shit,…
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