Another meeting between the Trump campaign and a representative of the leader of the United Arab Emirates has been uncovered by the New York Times’s Mark Mazzetti, Ronen Bergman, and David Kirkpatrick, this one in August of 2016. The gathering at Trump Tower was arranged by George Nader, a Lebanese-American international fixer with ties to […]
Review of Bernard Lewis’ “What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response”
Review of Bernard Lewis’ “What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response” by Juan Cole Reprinted from Global Dialogue, vol. 4, no. 4, Autumn 2002. Bernard Lewis. What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 172 pp. Index to p. 180. Hard covers, $23. Bernard Lewis’s What […]
The Royal Wedding and the End of Whiteness?
Props to CNN’s D. J. Judd, who pointed out a historical irony: The last Duke of Sussex, named in 1801, advocated for abolishing the slave trade and for religious minorities. Today, Meghan Markle, a biracial American actress and philanthropist descended from slaves, became the Duchess of Sussex. I think that’s cool.https://t.co/doKzQtWZ8m — DJ Judd (@juddzeez) […]
Gun Epidemic: Pakistani Exchange Student killed by Santa Fe, TX, Shooter was no Safer in US than at Home
Just to note the irony that a Pakistani exchange student, Sabika Sheikh, was among the (so far) 10 persons killed in the school massacre at Santa Fe, Texas. Pakistan has seen a stark reduction in deaths from terrorism in recent years. The Global Terrorism Index for 2017 says that “Pakistan also recorded a decrease in […]
Alabama Rep with Rocks in his Head blames Rocks for Climate Change
Alabama representative for the 5th district Mo Brooks sits on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, and spent his time harassing climate scientists at a hearing. He blamed sea level rise on rocks falling into the sea from coastal erosion. Sea levels are rising in part because surface ice is melting owing to of […]
When Trump calls Latinos “Animals,” should we hear echoes of the SS’s Undermen?
In the beginning of the internet back in the late 1980s and early 1990s when you for the first time had large and contentious discussions online at bulletin boards like Usenet, attorney Mike Godwin noticed that the longer a discussion went on, the more likely it was that someone would make a Hitler comparison. Some […]
Top Three Ways Nikki Haley is like a Palestinian
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nimrata “Nikki” Singh Randhawa Haley on Tuesday walked out of the chamber when the Palestinian ambassador began to speak. Palestine, like the Vatican, has non-member observer state status at the UN. You’re not a very good diplomat if you won’t even listen to what one of the parties to […]
Can Palestinians be Killed? Can Israelis Kill them? Or do they only “Die”?
Social media is being scathing about the diction chosen by the New York Times, CNN and even the Guardian to speak of the some 55 peacefully protesting Palestinians whom Israeli snipers cold-bloodedly shot dead on Monday and the some 2700 whom they wounded, half of those with live fire. The headlines or lead paragraphs spoke […]
The Half-Millennium When Rome excluded Jews from Jerusalem and how Iran and Muslims Saved Them
The move of the Trump administration of the US embassy to Jerusalem is intended, according to the president, to signal a recognition of the reality that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. This move is controversial because Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem is not recognized in international law. The 1947 partition plan suggested in the UN […]
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