March 2011
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February 2011
15 posts
come on up to the house: Confirmed: Female African... →
guerrillamamamedicine:
so-treu:
African mercenaries from where in Africa? Isn’t in Libya in Africa, after all? So why are we treating these Africans as if they’re from a different place than Libyans? I’m guessing because they’re from sub-Saharan Africa, meaning they are black. (i’ll post a link to an article that discusses this.)
and this isn’t to call anyone out, but i think it’s...
Nir Rosen: The Unstoppable Revolutionary Power of... →
nirrosen:
Watching Qadhafi give his speech I’m relieved to see that somebody has more public relations problems than I do right now. Al Jazeera is juxtaposing his speech with footage of Libyan’s opposing him in Benghazi. This is similar to what Jazeera did in Egypt, when it went from Mubarak speaking to the…
"The last refuge of full-throated Orientalism is... →
jeevermadness:
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young Indian-American in possession of some years’ experience of India must be in want of a book contract.
Mihir Sharma’s crushing review of Anand Giridharadas’s India Calling argues that the book is little more than a diasporic “identity-crisis-as-social-commentary” in the tradition of V.S. Naipaul. While I admittedly have not...
“Hillary Clinton speaks about the importance of “reform” as if we don’t know the...”
– The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب (via guerrillamamamedicine)
