Category: Politics & World Affairs
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Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post has some adult thoughts on the killing of Osama bin Laden. It seems nearly heretical to say so, but the termination of Osama bin Laden feels oddly anti-climactic. Now what? And how to explain the sense that nothing has changed? The boogeyman may be dead, but the boogey is…
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The curious case of Osama bin Laden – The Express Tribune. I think it is plausible that GHQ (General Head Quarters..the Pakistani army high command) really did NOT know where Bin Laden was hiding. But GHQ has failed to act against (or even to regard as potentially suspicious) the “good jihadis”, both within the ISI…
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By Christopher Hitchens: “There’s…some…satisfaction to be gained from this smoking-gun proof of official Pakistani complicity with al-Qaida,…. …[W]ho did not know that the United States was lavishly feeding the same hands that fed Bin Laden? There’s some minor triumph,…in the confirmation that our old enemy was not a heroic guerrilla fighter but the pampered client…
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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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And they don't bode well for Hope & Change, at least not of the kind I had in mind. The violent video I posted showing bigots in Orange County heckling and threatening Muslim families was terrible enough. But more awful news keeps dribbling out on the front pages of the newspapers and TV headlines. Some news items lead me to believe…
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Pakistan's Nuclear Bayonet, by Pervez Hoodboy "An extremist takeover of Pakistan is probably no further than five to 10 years away. Even today, some radical Islamists are advocating war against America. … "In an enthusiastic moment, Napoleon is said to have remarked: “Bayonets are wonderful! One can do anything with them except sit on them!”…
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"Give Us What We Want, or We Kill the Mothers and Babies!" I was reading an article on Robert F. Drinan, S.J., a Jesuit priest who served in the U.S. Congress for 10 years, ending in 1980. He was the first Catholic clergy to serve in Congress. His departure came at the order of Pope…
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Manipulated over the past century and a half by greedy outsiders and their own repressive leaders, many Arabs in the middle east and north Africa are saying, "Enough already!" In country after country from Morocco to Bahrain, popular uprisings are now a raging fire. The long simmering resentment of ordinary people against widespread corruption, unemployment, grotesque inequalities and curtailment of freedom which is now a growing explosive…
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As usual, I am late in commenting on a hot topic on the blog which I had up on my Facebook page (under the same title) as soon as the news broke of thousands of protesting public sector employees taking to the streets in Madison, WI. In the FB comment I called Scott Walker, the newly elected Tea Party governor of Wisconsin a…
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An article in yesterday's NYT chronicles the evolution of the recent Egyptian revolution. There is no doubt that by and large the revolt against the government of Hosni Mubarak was planned, organized and launched by the tech savvy youth of Egypt. The peaceful protests caught the regime by surprise and the ham handed efforts to quell the uprising was not successful. (An interesting aside. Note who organized…
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Several writers weigh in at 3 Quarks Daily.
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