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Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror

posted on Fri, 02 May 2008 17:44:36 -0700

Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror May 3, 2008 by Admin “Now They Call Me Infidel - Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror” by Nonie Darwish, A Muslim Shahid’s Daughter Nonie Darwish’s entrancing and frightening account of her childhood and upbringing in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s Middle East gives the reader an opportunity to see the build up of jihad and the perpetuation of hatred towards Israel and America at

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media – gossip central and major irony

posted on Fri, 02 May 2008 12:25:00 -0700

I don’t read papers much anymore, I don’t have a telly. In fact, I have been sans telly for …oh.. the main part of the last sixteen years. I had a telly the … Read more from the original source: Related posts Japan News Roundup (0) Did you learn this in history class? (0) Bird-flu outbreak reported from another Indian state - Monsters and Critics.com (0) World News (Times of Malta) (0) Villagers in bird-flu hit Tripura lament paltry compensation (0)

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The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East

posted on Fri, 02 May 2008 10:57:37 -0700

The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East Last Sunday, the New York Times Book Review weighed in on the new Olivier Roy book, The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East. Reviewed alongside Noah Feldman’s new book, the Times declares, “At only 167 pages, Roy’s book provides a concise and penetrating summation of the current scene; it’s a fine primer for anyone trying to get a sense of just how chaotic the Middle East is.” You can read other reviews of the work here. And the first chapter of the b

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Israel's Occupation

posted on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:39:58 -0700

As a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Neve Gordon, writes about the history of Israel's occupation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, as well as the on-going rift between Israel and Palestine dating back to the 1967 war. You can read more about his book and Middle Eastern politics at his website, Israel's Occupation. The University of California Press will be publishing his forthcoming title, Israel's Occupation in Fall 2008.

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Yale Press authors on nuclear war and black holes

posted on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:10:52 -0700

Foreign Affairs, published by the Council of Foreign Relations, asked Lawrence Freedman to choose his five favorite books of the past year about military, science, and technology. He chose Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War, by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez as one of the year's best books. Read the entire list here. This groundbreaking history shatters many assumptions about the Six-Day War of 1967. New research in Soviet archives and testimonies from partic

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Yale Press authors on nuclear war and black holes

posted on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:59:53 -0700

Foreign Affairs, published by the Council of Foreign Relations, asked Lawrence Freedman to choose his five favorite books of the past year about military, science, and technology. He chose Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War, by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez as one of the year's best books. Read the entire list here. This groundbreaking history shatters many assumptions about the Six-Day War of 1967. New research in Soviet archives and testimonies from partic

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The New Hunger

posted on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:36:44 -0700

If you didn’t have ethanol, you would not have the prices we have today The globe’s worst food crisis in a generation emerged as a blip on the big boards and computer screens of America’s great grain exchanges. As prices rise, major grain producers including Argentina and Ukraine, battling inflation caused in part by soaring oil bills, were moving to bar exports on a range of crops to control costs at home. It meant less supply on world markets even as global demand entered a fundamentally n

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Spencer and Pipes Explain Jihad

posted on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:10:32 -0700

Originally published April 22, 2008 (front page) This article was picked up by Campus Watch. Robert Spencer and Daniel Pipes spoke at length on April 8 about why they believe ["holy war"] is a much more accurate definition [for jihad]. Spencer and Pipes were invited to speak at Stanford by Students for an Open Society, in an event co-sponsored by The Stanford Review and the Stanford College Republicans. [...] Perhaps the most important point of the lecture, which both Spencer and Pipes agr

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Fresno’s Durban Conference

posted on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:22:36 -0700

Fresno’s Durban Conference April 21st, 2008 Fresno State’s Middle East Studies program is planning an “International Conference” on “Teaching about the Middle East in the 21st Century” this October. Why do I care? Because, given the politicization of academia in general and Middle East Studies in particular — and the individuals running the conference — I expect that it will not be a quiet exercise in arcane scholarship. Instead, I expect another attempt to bring the politics of hatred to o

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Manifest Destiny - 21st Century Style

posted on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:23:20 -0700

Manifest Destiny - 21st Century Style Manifest Destiny - 21st Century Style By Kristina M. Gronquist 04/25/05 “ICH” - - The concept of Manifest Destiny describes the 19th century conviction that God intended the continent of North America to be under the control of Christian, European Americans. The ideology of Manifest Destiny was the backbone of U.S. government efforts to colonize land inhabited by indigenous people in North America and expand the United States into Mexican territory. Be

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Israelis Upset About Jimmy Carter’s Meeting with Hamas Leader

posted on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:56:28 -0700

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