September 2011
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5000 Articles on WikiLeaks →
One of my goals as a grad student is to write a paper about the Middle East and WikiLeaks. This looks to be an amazing resource.
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J Street Opposes Ad Campaign Calling for Cuts to... →
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WASHINGTON —Jeremy Ben-Ami, president and founder of J Street, issued the following response to an advertising campaign urging cuts to U.S. military aid to Israel:
J Street profoundly disagrees with advertisements appearing on public transit around the country calling for cuts in U.S. military aid to Israel.
We believe that if the campaign’s organizers are really looking to...
Small Victory
One of the few highlights today is how the Reddit community is fighting back against Anderson Cooper’s bizarre attack on reddit through r/jailbait. Do I like r/jailbait? No. Do I think that reddit should be deciding what is good and what isn’t? God no. The entire point of reddit is to have user-driven communities. As long as it doesn’t violate the law, it’s fine. Cooper...
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In Light Of Listeria Outbreak, Fox's Stossel... →
It takes a certain kind of person to be presented with the information that a corporation let people die due to tainted cantaloupes and then say “We don’t need an FDA.” In his imaginary (and I must stress, completely imaginary) world, corporations would compete to be the cleanest because magazines would report on which ones were unhealthy. Here’s an experiment to prove why...
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In Response To A String Of Sexual Assaults, New... →
In response to a string of at least 10 unsolved sexual assaults in Brooklyn, New York police are reportedly stopping women on the street who are wearing clothing they say is revealing and advising them to cover up if they don’t want to be raped. The Wall Street Journal reports on the disturbing message police officers are allegedly spreading:
Lauren, a South Slope resident, was walking home...
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Anwar Al-Awlaki
I honestly don’t know where to start. The fact that Republicans have been droning on about how Obama is weak on terrorism when he’s out assassinating US citizens? The fact that with this precedent, Rick Perry or Mitt Romney could one day have the power to assassinate US citizens that they claim are terrorists? The way so-called liberals are applauding this like it was a triumph for...
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Expect A Flood of Angry Posts Today.
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Letters To My Country: The Problem With... →
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Manicchill asked me earlier about the recent killing of al-Awlaki by U.S. drones in Yemen. Below is a rebloggable version of my response in which I identified WHY THIS IS REALLY BAD AND YOU SHOULD BE VERY CONCERNED. I have done my best to describe many of the disturbing legal issues (certainly…
Also, one of the arguments that the Obama administration used was...
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10 myths about Afghanistan →
One of the most annoying aspects about debating the Afghanistan war is how poorly Afghanistan is understood by most Americans (and politicians and military people). This list is a good step in clearing up some misconceptions.
DagSeoul: Positions, Populations, Punk, Poetics:... →
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thewaterwillcome:
I didn’t think it should have been deleted from other users tumblrs but do you think sending anonymous messages telling people they should die is a teaching moment? what are you taking about who am I supposed to be trolling?
Look, I get you don’t think you’re trolling….
Goddamn, that was a highly articulate ass-kicking.
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“But America is also this: a long history of using policy—not just...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Pro-Israel whitewash of 10-year-old's killing... →
One day in 2007, Israeli Border Police officers swept into the in the village of Anata just north of Jerusalem and began firing rubber bullets at a group of children who had thrown rocks at them. One Israeli bullet landed in the skull of a 10-year-old Palestinian girl named Abir Aramin, tearing the back of her head off and killing her. Aramin was the daughter of a prominent Palestinian...
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readyokaygo-deactivated20130325 asked: Just a heads up, I posted a good report on why Gilo is an illegal settlement on my blog 'Eretz Yisrael' a few days ago. The point of posting that picture was to show my followers that the West Bank is a peaceful region.
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Rebecca Watson on the Hate She's Received Since... →
Abbie Smith at ERV was, as far as I could tell, the first to actively encourage people to replace intelligent discussion and inquiry with blind hatred and bile. That’s where the name “Rebeccunt Twatson” apparently arose – see? Impressive! If you listen hard enough, you can hear the ghost of Ambrose Bierce chuckling and nodding his head in approval.
Then there’s a blog called Grey Lining...
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Thomas Friedman: Imperial Messenger of the Arab... →
The innovative prince appears in Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded eating pizza at a Bahraini bistro with Friedman, while the daughter of a woman in a head-scarf at the table next to them is “dressed like an American teenager and had what looked like a tattoo on her left shoulder.” The bearer of the possible tattoo presumably belongs to the same category as the modern-sounding Egyptian...
let's give it back to the squares: In response to... →
teaganism:
I just wanted to offer my own experience, to reaffirm what should be plainly obvious: no one has any place in mocking the struggle of the working poor, or students.
I had to drop out of a $40000-per-year private university that I busted my ass to get into because I couldn’t pay…
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Georgia Set to Execute Marcus Ray Johnson With No... →
As you know the State of Georgia issued a warrant for Marcus Ray Johnson not even a day after the execution of Troy Davis. The date has been set for Wednesday, October 5 at 7pm. The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles will set a date for the his clemency hearing in the next few days. We must make sure that the Board not only know we’re watching, but we’re taking action! Like in the Troy...
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Pamela Geller Associate John Jay Calls for Mass... →
start the revolution …
first things first.—
1.)take out the talking head media, and burn the new york times, the los angeles times and the washington post to the ground. draw and quarter the media, and shoot their remains from canons in the four directions of the prevailing winds.
rinse, lather, repeat as needed.
2.)take out all the incumbent leadership of both parties in the congress,...
Wait, Tumblr deleted posts dealing with that...
So Tumblr deleted all posts where the Tumblr community pointed out all of the logical and moral errors in that photoset?
So in other words, if you complain enough, Tumblr will just remove all evidence of you being a tool. Good to know.
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paxamericana:
Song of the day
Fearandwar said...
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Occupy Wall Street
The news has been barely covering the Occupy Wall Street protests. It makes me wonder if this was how it was in Egypt before it became obvious that the protestors weren’t leaving.
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Perry Appointees May Raid Public School Funds To... →
The nation’s biggest oil companies — many of them headquartered in oil-rich Texas — are raking in record profits this year and don’t need any more incentive to keep doing business. But Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) and his hand-picked appointees are giving them one anyway, and literally taking money away from children and schools to pay for it.
Public education — along with Medicaid, women’s health...
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International Trader: ‘I Go To Bed Every Night And... →
While European government and financial leaders are scrambling to prevent a financial crisis in the Eurozone that would likely throw the global economy into even more turmoil, stock trader Alessio Rastani took to BBC today to tell the world that traders were looking forward to the possibility of a second big recession. “For most traders, it’s not about – we don’t really care that much how...
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Beloved Roald Dahl book "The BFG" will get the... →
This has made me insanely happy. One of my favorite books from my childhood.
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I’m intensely studying Greek, Arabic, and Latin. Syriac and Hebrew look interesting and I know I need to work on German for graduate school. I would have been an awesome Orientalist.
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Hitchens Calls for Another War (Which He Won't... →
Mullen’s evidence, then, is one of those revelations that appears to necessitate action. Either the Pakistanis must permit an unobstructed run at the Haqqani bases that are used for the subversion of Pakistan as well as the re-Talibanization of Afghanistan, or they must at the very least lose their claim on the U.S. Treasury. At the most, they must take the risk of being identified as...
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“Oppression is not okay from the federal level but if your state wants to oppress...”
– Jon Stewart summarizing Ron Paul’s incoherence
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“In my office in Jerusalem, there’s a — there’s an ancient...”
– Benjamin Netanyahu talking about Jewish heritage in Israel
Netanyahu’s dad changed his name to Netanyahu from Mileikowsky. This would be like me going to England, changing my name to Windsor and claiming I have a history with England. It’s fucking stupid, but he never gets called out on...
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Turkish government releases identities of IDF... →
After an extensive investigation the Turkish government has released the names of the IDF soldiers who participated in the attack on the Mavi Marmara. This news broke today in Sabah, a Turkish newspaper.
The search for the identities of IDF soldiers who participated in the deadly Flotilla raid began after Turkish intelligence demanded the information from Israel who refused to release the...
