Pakistan holds elections on Saturday. More than 70 people have been killed nationwide in pre-election violence. It is encouraging that Pakistani High Court Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan issued a ruling on Thursday declaring US drone strikes in tribal areas in Pakistan illegal and a war crime.
By Arthur Phillips | CEPR | May 8, 2013
Bloomberg’s Nathan Gill wrote a particularly one-sided article on Thursday, in which he states that “Ecuador’s bid to reduce poverty by taxing its banks is threatening to deepen the nation’s economic slump.”
Writing in The New Yorker, Dexter Filkins runs through the Obama administration’s reluctance to further intervene in Syria. There are many cons White House officials articulate, but here’s two that stood out to me.
Unintended Consequences
RT | May 01, 2013
The Syrian opposition is made up of young men with little education, brainwashed into fighting President Assad, journalist Anhar Kocheva told RT. Kocheva spoke about her time as a hostage, describing a ragtag group of men devoid of tangible ideals.
As a student of true history, I have long said that the so called "History" that has been shoved down into our brains in the false and fraudulent so called "education system" is nothing more than a pack of lies... These lies have been done on purpose by criminals who want to keep us unaware of our real history, and as a method of giving us a false history to believe in. The purpose of the false history is only to help these same criminals as they now push for their ultimate aim of world domination...
Yesterday would have been uber-diplomat Richard Holbrooke’s 72nd birthday. He died December 13, 2010 while on the job as our top envoy to Afghanistan, and one can’t help thinking that whatever 1960′s idealism still existed in terms of making that country a better place, died with him. At least symbolically.
www.revisionisthistory.orgAn asteroid is passing 17,000 miles from us as a spectacular meteor strikes Russia, while "A Good Day to Die Hard," a Hollywood blockbuster movie based in Russia, debuts. What is the statistical chance of all these events happening within hours of each other? Signs and Wonders in the midst of the Papal Abdication:How should a Christian respond?On Feb 15, 2013, at 7:07, XXXXX@aol.com wrote:
"إن تاريخ الفكر، ناهيك عن تاريخ الحركات السياسية، يوضح بشكل لا ريب فيه أن مقولة "التضامن قبل النقد" تعني نهاية النقد. وأنا أنظر للنقد بجدية كبيرة إلى حد يدفعني للإيمان أنه، حتى في خضم معركة يجد المرء نفسه فيها منحازاً انحيازاً بيّناً مع طرف ضد آخر، فإن النقد يجب أن يكون موجوداً، لأنه من الضروري وجود ضمير نقدي إن كانت هناك قضايا ومشكلات وقيم، و حتى أرواح، يتم الدفاع عنها. "
إدوار سعيد - "النقد العلماني" - العالم والنص والناقد)
