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What is Shame?
‘Shame’ is a disturbing, much admired, Steve McQueen film that has been misleadingly reviewed, but deserves our serious attention. Let me put my reasoning in provocative language: ‘Shame’ depicts with…
Book Review: Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights
Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights: Diaspora Jewish Opposition to Israel. David Landy. Z Books, London/New York, 2011. The mainstream media does not cover this kind of topic and only hints…
Cappuccino with a Country Monk
On Good Friday, Christians connect with God. But as I ran across Flinders Street station and raced down the stairs while clutching a bag of donuts and a take-away cappuccino…
MMA in Malaysia, The Sport of a New Generation
The bell rings, and Malaysian national san da team member Raymond Tiew flies out of his corner, ready to do battle. His opponent, Kong Ravy, is a Khmer Bokator fighter,…
Review of Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games
Postmodern Imperialism – Geopolitics and the Great Games, Eric Walberg. 300 pages. Clarity Press, Atlanta. Reviewed by Jonathan Reynolds I. Let the Games Begin…Again…and Again The great disaffected masses tell…
Lies Behind Lies Behind the ‘Humanitarian War’ in Libya
dondebar — This document makes it possible to understand how international law and justice works, but mostly how its basic principles can be bypassed. The resolutions passed against Lybia are…
Totally Corrupt America
Last March, I reviewed Matt Taibbi’s important book Griftopia, an entertaining account of the through-going financial fraud that gave us the financial crisis. Taibbi shows that the US “superpower” can…
Chris Hedges: A Man of Our Times
I am sure I have come across Chris Hedges’ name before, and perhaps read some of his material, but never has the connection been so strong as now. With the…
An Iranian Rival for the Guinness Book of World Records
The Guinness Book of World Records is being challenged with the efforts of a determined Iranian journalist. A new rival is slated to take the place of Guinness World Records…
Book Review: ‘The Longest War’ by Peter L. Bergen
The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda. Peter L. Bergen. Free Press, New York, 2011. Writing history is a matter of placing points in time as bookends…
Hanoi, Quy Nhon and My Bargaining Curse
From the moment I arrived at Hanoi’s main bus depot late at night after a 27 hour bus ride, I had a bad feeling about what would transpire. The only…
A Westerner in an Arab Kingdom’s Ranks
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing author Joseph Braude give a lecture in New York City. After hearing about his experiences in Morocco, I felt compelled to share…
Ma’a as-salaamah Mohammad… May Allah protect you!
TRIPOLI, August 28 — My roommate left our hotel and hopefully Libya last night for his village near Arlit, Niger thanks to the assistance of one of Tripoli’s Christian Churches. …
Bahrain: Shouting in the dark
Al Jazeera — Bahrain: An island kingdom in the Arabian Gulf where the Shia Muslim majority are ruled by a family from the Sunni minority. Where people fighting for democratic…
Book Review: Refusing to be Enemies
Refusing to be Enemies: Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation. Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta. Ithaca Press (Garnet Publishing, Reading, UK), 2011. Israel has always indicated that there is no…
‘Recently I was someone, now I’m nobody.’
I have visited Muhammad around sixty times. But it is only now that we begin to really talk to each other. Seven years ago, I met Muhammad for the first…
The Secret of Oz
bstill3 — The world economy is doomed to spiral downwards until we do 2 things: outlaw government borrowing; 2. outlaw fractional reserve lending. Banks should only be allowed to lend…
Burzynski: Cancer Is Serious Business
This is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D. biochemist who has discovered the genetic mechanism that can cure most human cancers. The opening 30 minutes of this film…
The Marketing of Madness: The Truth About Psychotropic Drugs
mysticdave666 — The Marketing of Madness is the definitive documentary on the psychiatric drugging industry. Here is the real story of the high income partnership between psychiatry and drug companies…
Warfare Without Limits: A Darkening Human Horizon
There are several pressures that push war in the direction of the absolute, and imperil the human future. Perhaps the foremost of these is the emergence, use, retention, and proliferation…
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