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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

David Brooks: American Arriviste embraces the elite of the old school tie

Posted on May 25, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/opinion/24brooks.html?hp Mr. Brooks is giddy, he has discovered the joy and wonder of the British Class system,its exclusive schools and their newest representatives, in a regime that has dedicated itself to the final dismantling of the welfare state, that odious … Continue reading →

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Decorum Breaks Down at House Hearing on Consumer Finance Agency

Posted on May 24, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

via nytimes.com

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Niall Ferguson and the brain-dead American right – War Room

Posted on May 24, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

via salon.com

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Netanyahu’s Border War by Shlomo Ben-Ami – Project Syndicate

Posted on May 24, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

TEL AVIV – Binyamin Netanyahu’s furious rejection of US President Barack Obama’s proposal to use the 1967 borders as the basis for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute – frontiers that he called “utterly indefensible” – reflects not only … Continue reading →

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Obama bows to AIPAC’s will – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

Posted on May 24, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Mission impossible: Keeping Israel happy – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

Posted on May 24, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Obama: Doomed to disappoint – Opinion – Al Jazeera English

Posted on May 23, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Glenn Greenwald on Obama and Israel

Posted on May 23, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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 →

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Episode LXX of The American Political Melodrama: The Good Doctor, Obama and the Triumph of Two Varieties of Exceptionalism

Posted on May 20, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

    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 →

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Nakba day: we waited 63 years for this | Karma Nabulsi | Comment is free | The Guardian

Posted on May 19, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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

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