March 2012
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Boris Kagarlitsky: "Controlling People Through...
“Totalitarian regimes of the 20th century showed that control of the language is one element in maintaining control over the people. Deprived of an adequate complement of words, the people are unable to express thoughts contrary to the standards imposed on them and become helpless and easily managed. Even if they are unhappy or dissatisfied with conditions, they are unable to put that...
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Penny Hess on the White Left →
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“The left wants a more attractive, ‘inclusive’ imperialism with a strong neo-colonialism that would keep the terroristic extraction of the resources of colonized peoples hidden from their view. The right likes a more hard line, war-mongering, blatantly imperialist imperialism. “In its own way the…
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And it just keeps getting funnier and funnier:... →
A U.S. judge entered a $9.4 billion judgment against Hezbollah after the Lebanon-based group defaulted in a lawsuit over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
U.S. District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan today said that Hezbollah, designated a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department, must pay the damages to insurers includingChubb Corp. (CB) that sought to recoup payments to business and...
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Assad's Collectivist Understanding of Freedom as...
“The Ba’th concept of “freedom” refers not to individual freedoms or civil rights, but to
the liberation of the Arab nation as a collective from the domination of theWest (including
that of Zionism and the State of Israel) and the constraints that have been imposed upon
its self-determination and self-expression by Western colonialism, as a prerequisite for
fulfilling its national potential...
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Rejecting the Ideology of Neutrality
The idea that political observers, analysts and scholars have to be unbiased and neutral in order to be considered “credible” is just another colonial tool to keep us from speaking truth. Methodological Imperialism has created an artificial “zero point” (read, Empire’s worldview) from which we are to never depart in our analyses, and whomever dares digress is rejected...
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Challenging the Concept of US "Security Interests"
We really have to start challenging the concept of US “security interests” in the Middle East. I know it seems so self-evidently nonsensical as to obviate the need for a critique but it has become so deeply naturalized in mainstream political discourse, that even well-meaning Arabs feel compelled to appeal to the US’ regional interests when dissuading Washington from committing further...
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On Third-Wayism in Syria
“Any leftist who is arguing for a “third way” solution to the Syrian crisis is engaged in self-delusion. This is not a political solution but an intellectual one which grants him/her the luxury of moral consistency which ultimately only serves personal interests like one’s career and groupie followings—not the interests of a sovereign and secure Syria. The...
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Speaking with Hizbullah
Let me set the record straight here regarding Western journalists who claim they have met with Hizbullah fighters and security men: Hizbullah isn’t simply an organizational entity, or just a military organization with a political wing. It isn’t even just a political movement. It is an epistemic-political-social community in its own right. More than that, it is a political identity...
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“Since colonialism is but one expression or phase of imperialism, as in the...”
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“Western liberals: the resistance in Lebanon and Palestine neither needs nor...”
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“If the Syrian crisis has taught me anything, it’s that revolutionary and...”
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Decolonized Versus Progressive Minds
There is a difference between liberalism and democracy; a difference between human rights and people’s rights; a difference between freedoms and Freedom; a difference between Intifada Chic and Intifada consciousness; a difference between revolution and insurrection; a difference between hegemony and authoritarianism ; a difference between serving the interests of the oppressors and an...
