Anonymous: International PoliticsAn overview of International Politics and International Political Economy. Emphasis on minority languages and cultures and human rights.(Untitled)- June 28, 2004 Correcting the Myth Yesterday the Good Doc and I went out to the Castro to hang with our gay peeps. We met out friend Sandra as well, who happens to be French. We talked about politics, as we usually do, and Sandra brought up the supposed fact that a plane load of Bin Laden family members were flown out of the US after the attacks on September 11. She stated that she thought Osama Bin Laden was on that flight and that Bush is hiding him somewhere, waiting to reveal him, perhaps before the..http://blogs.salon.com/0002222/categories/internationalPolitics/2004/06/27.html#a746 (Untitled)- June 22, 2004 Beheadings I don't know which is more repulsive: the beheadings of non-Muslims by Al Qaeda or Al Qaeda's apologists in the West. I've read, on certain unnamed blogs, about how the invasion of Iraq is to blame for these beheadings. The sub-current of all these writings is that really the victims of the beheadings are to blame for their lot, as if they lopped off their own heads and the Islamic fascists who actually carried out the murders are some mirage created by the Western media. The crux...http://blogs.salon.com/0002222/categories/internationalPolitics/2004/06/22.html#a739 (Untitled)- June 21, 2004 Fahrenheit 911 - The Lies of Michael Moore Christopher Hitchens, renowned leftist writer and the owner of both scathing wit and a razor sharp intellect, tears apart Michael Moore's new movie here. Following are some choice bits from his review. To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the...http://blogs.salon.com/0002222/categories/internationalPolitics/2004/06/21.html#a738 (Untitled)- June 20, 2004 Not in the USA The poster above is one that has been mysteriously appearing around San Francisco. I think it shows, in an artistic and non-confrontational manner, how the prison scandal in Iraq and the Bush administration's continuing campaign of lies has stained our national honor and our flag. We must get this...http://blogs.salon.com/0002222/categories/internationalPolitics/2004/06/19.html#a736 (Untitled)- June 18, 2004 The Saudi Civil War Props to Lee Smith, who posted on Slate the most well-written and concise piece dealing with Saudi Arabia that I have read in a long, long time.http://blogs.salon.com/0002222/categories/internationalPolitics/2004/06/18.html#a734 (Untitled)- June 14, 2004 Signing Europe's Death Warrant ...http://blogs.salon.com/0002222/categories/internationalPolitics/2004/06/14.html#a725 |