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http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/05/22/israel?source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%2520Newsletter%2520%2528Not%2520Premium%2529_7_30_110 'I don't believe Obama is guided in these efforts by any principled concern or moral empathy for the plight of Palestinians or the injustice of the 45-year-old occupation; it seems clear that he isn't ever driven by considerations of that … Continue reading →

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-news-in-obamas-speech/2011/05/19/AF4dFN7G_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions#weighIn Here is The Good Doctor (TGD) manufacturing more backhanded apologetics for the War on Terror, masquerading as ‘Democracy Promotion’ in ‘The Arab World’. The linchpin of this ‘Bush Doctrine’ is the barrel of a gun and whatever … Continue reading →

via guardian.co.uk Here is an answer to Leslie Gelb’s column at The Daily Beast of this week.

Former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska says uprisings in the Arab world are part of “a global rebalancing” in which the international clout of the United States will be diminished. The war in Afghanistan — the longest in U.S. … Continue reading →

via sup.org I have just read the introduction to Professor Rebecca Comay’s book Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution. I should not have started another book, but the temptation was too great. Professor Comay did not disappoint, her introduction … Continue reading →

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-16/israels-dilemma-in-policing-the-palestinian-border-protests/ Opinionator Emeritus (OE) reminds us with every word, of his recent essay, of his contempt, even his unbridled hatred of Palestinians and their aspirations to statehood, as being in the arena of the impossible dream of the benighted, the … Continue reading →

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via blog.thejerusalemfund.org

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-16/bernard-henri-lvy-the-dominique-strauss-kahn-i-know/ One is forcefully reminded of two things when reading any essay by BHL: he is living his notion of being the ethical heir to the mantle of ‘The Committed Public Intellectual’ made famous by Jean Paul Sartre, and his … Continue reading →

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