January 2011
Mohandas Gandhi: An Open Letter to President... →
thenoobyorker:
Dear President Obama:
As political scientists, historians, and researchers in related fields who have studied the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy, we the undersigned believe you have a chance to move beyond rhetoric to support the democratic movement sweeping over Egypt. As citizens, we expect our president to uphold those values.
For thirty years, our government...
“This is the Arab world’s Berlin moment. The authoritarian wall has fallen – and...”
– Fawaz Gerges, professor of Middle Eastern politics and international relations at the London School of Economics
Egypt protests - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk
(via streamsofwikileaks)
Afghan & Iraq War Logs Coverage: Mubarak’s Secret... →
streamsofwikileaks:
Watch Al Jazeera’s coverage live by clicking on the video.
Since Tuesday, protesters have been reporting that government thugs, NDP party thugs, have been acting initially as provocateurs and now as looters. There were widespread reports Thursday night for example that plain clothes police were spreading petrol on cars and otherwise preparing chaos.
Now the reports of...
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Afghan & Iraq War Logs Coverage: Courage to Resist... →
streamsofwikileaks:
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011~ 9am to 5pm EST
White House Switchboard: 202-456-1414 (or the White House comments line after hours: 202-456-1111)
From the Bradley Manning Support Network
Call the White House Thursday, February 3, 2011, to voice your support for accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower US Army PFC Bradley Manning. Express your concern that Bradley’s human...
Anonymous goes Old-School, attacks Egypt with... →
javiercarrete:
Anonymous is a loose organization of hacktivists best known for attacking its enemies —both corporate and governmental— via the Internet, by defacing websites or shutting them down altogether. But with most of the Internet down in Egypt, the folks at Anonymous are apparently resorting to a positively prehistoric technology: fax machines.
Members of the group are organizing to...
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Everything ██is█████ ████ ████fine ███ █ ████...
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Egypt - Evidence of torture and repression by...
By María Luisa Rivera, Wikileaks, 28 January 2011, 15.00 GMT
Many well-known activists including Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel peace laureate, have been arrested in their homes, civilians have been wounded and even killed in clashes with Egyptian police and security forces. As an Internet blackout imposed by the state covers the country, every citizen and grassroots organization will now be...
what if there was a golden globes category for...
captainplanet:
guess who would win every time?
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The return of Xenophon
Robin Waterfield argues for the philosophical credentials of a neglected chronicler of Socrates
Xenophon the philosopher? But wasn’t he a historian – the man who wrote the famous and thrilling campaign narrative The Expedition of Cyrus (in Greek, The Anabasis) and who completed Thucydides’ unfinished history of the Peloponnesian War? This is true, but there was a lot more to him besides; he was...
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“Is Augustine’s doubt really on a different plane than Descartes’?...”
– Scott Atran | BEYOND BELIEF:Science, Religion, Reason and Survival Salk Institue, La Jolla November 5-7, 2006
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“On the ordinary problems of human life, science tells us very little, and...”
– Noam Chomsky | BEYOND BELIEF:Science, Religion, Reason and Survival Salk Institute, La Jolla November 5-7, 2006
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Radio: Oh na na, what's my name?
Me: Rihanna.
Radio: Oh na na, what's my name?
Me: Uhm, Rihanna.
Radio: Oh na na, what's my name, what's my name, what's my name?
Me: You're lucky I'm not Chris Brown.
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acquiescetolove asked: OMG ORANGE MOCHA FRAPPUCINOS!!!!!!
“It’s cute, because the Americans tend to picture an American soldier on the...”
– A Chinese college student in Beijing reflects on America in a very interesting interview. (via hipsterlibertarian)
I remember McLuhan had a very interesting take on how the Greek alphabet tends to individualize societies while cultures that have ideograms are more communal on their volkgeist.