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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

ThinkProgress » Bolton: Mubarak’s Downfall Would Mean We Need To Bomb Iran Sooner

via thinkprogress.org Neo-Conservatism is both a virulent political psychosis and a political theology based solely on belief.The demonstrable, the empirical are irrelevant issues; so that Bolton speaks from a belief system based on a disordered perception of political reality wedded … Continue reading

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Egypt Protests: Hackers Work to Get Demonstrators Back Online – The Daily Beast

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On Guns, MLK and Tucson | The Fromson File

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Simon Wiesenthal and the Ethics of History > Publications > Jewish Review of Books

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Kolin: How the US Became a Police State | Informed Comment

Kolin: How the US Became a Police State Posted on 01/31/2011 by Juan   Andrew Kolin writes in a guest column for Informed Comment To understand how the U.S. government became a police state, look no further than how it … Continue reading

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Inquiry and Intimidation

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Ronald Reagan at 100: The Darker Legacy

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Leslie Gelb and the Decline of American Power

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-29/beware-egypts-muslim-brotherhood/?om_rid=De4wA2&om_mid=_BNRYMcB8X6sDcY  It is hard not to treat this collection of ex post facto explanations and condemnations, of a self-appointed Foreign Policy Mandarin as so much whistling in the dark, as the Egyptian People, including the Muslim Brotherhood, make their own … Continue reading

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FRONTLINE: Tehran Bureau: Ayatollah Amjad: ‘Impossible to Be an Islamic Scholar and Call This Islam’ | PBS

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Public Sector Unionism: A political Danger

http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2011/01/public-sector_unions  This ‘well informed’ article in The Wall Street Journal, here quoted by the Economist, owned and operated by Murdoch and his bevy of sycophantic scribes help to manufacture paranoia about the mortal political danger of Public Sector Unions. Let … Continue reading

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