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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary

Media complicity in rising xenophobia – Features – Al Jazeera English

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Haleh Sahabi: Our Antigone in Tehran – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

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How Israel’s lobby chills Middle East debate – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

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Can equality exist in the Jewish state? – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

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David Brooks on ‘The Depravity Factor’: Comment by Political Observer

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/opinion/03brooks.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Here is David Brooks exercising his disgust, his contempt for what might be characterized and practiced as necessary political hypocrisy, framed in the bankrupt pieties of the American Political Theology. Here, also, the backhanded apologetics for Israeli intransigence in … Continue reading

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Unknown Streets by Jorge Luis Borges: A fragment

…Everything- the drab houses,   the crude banisters,the doorknockers,   perhaps the hopes of a girl dreaming on a balcony-   all entered into my vain heart   with the clarity of tears. …

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Episode LXX of the American Political Melodrama: The Great Will and John Huntsman

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jon-huntsmans-thorny-path-to-the-gop-nomination/2011/05/31/AGLPhkGH_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions   The Great Will (TGW)  never tires of promoting rich Republican men as the bearers of the mantle of civic republican virtue, as replacements for the corrupt ‘Socialist’ Barack Obama and the clear and present danger of the ‘entitlement … Continue reading

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Political Observer on Christopher Caldwell and BHL: On the Political Necessity of Book Chat

http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/018_02/7708 The dubious Mr. Christopher Caldwell of The Weekly Standard and the august Financial Times has taken aim at Bernard-Henri Levy, Fake French Philosopher; Mr. Caldwell and his confreres at The Weekly Standard are notorious for their promotion and shrill … Continue reading

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Robert Scheer: Geithner and Goldman, Thick as Thieves – Robert Scheer’s Columns – Truthdig

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History News Network | Because the Past is the Present, and the Future too.

The following post appears courtesy of Neal Katyal, Acting Solicitor General of the United States It has been my privilege to have served as Acting Solicitor General for the past year and to have served as Principal Deputy Solicitor General before … Continue reading

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