Articles written by: Stephen Glain
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Thursday, 27 Sep, 2012
What common sense could not kill, something called “sequestration” might at least tame.
Under this arcane but conclusive budgetary mechanism, the U.S. government will endure automatic and draconian spending cuts if it can’t cobble together a budget by January. Even the U.S. Defense Department, the epicenter of empire, will not be spared. As the largest government agency, the Pentagon is expected to suffer dearly under the sequestration sickle, and that has concentrated minds in a c...
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Wednesday, 19 Sep, 2012
The first thing to do when you find yourself in a hole, so goes an old saying, is to stop digging. And yet, scorched by an inferno of Arab outrage, Washington refuses to deal honestly and intelligently with its source. Instead, it just keeps on digging.
Muslim anger, conservatives bloviate, is the harvest of President Barak Obama’s failure to stand up for friendly dictators. From Rabat to Baghdad, U.S. diplomats will continue to huddle inside walled embassies, estranged from their host peo...
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Thursday, 13 Sep, 2012
Imagine telling a child in his most formative years that he is superior in every way. He is, you assure him, a child of destiny, invested by God with skills and resources denied al...
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Monday, 10 Sep, 2012
I recommend to readers a special edition published recently in The Nation on Islamophobia in the United States. From extrajudicial surveillance and sting operations undertaken by l...
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The spectral void that haunted the Republican National Convention was not the empty chair that lingered behind Clint Eastwood as he transformed himself from film legend to rambling...
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Wednesday, 22 Aug, 2012
It’s hard to feel sorry for China’s leadership, populated as it is by autocrats and oligarchs with little regard for the liberal yearnings of its people. And while China’s ec...
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Thursday, 16 Aug, 2012
Resistance to imperial rule is a time-honored Arab tradition, albeit with unanticipated consequences. During World War I, for example, the Hashemites helped to destroy the Ottoma...
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Monday, 13 Aug, 2012
America’s public television network, sanctuary for the nation’s dwindling reserve of thinking individuals, is re-broadcasting Ken Burns’ sweeping documentary of World War II....
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Thursday, 9 Aug, 2012
If history is indeed written by the winners, Mitt Romney is getting ahead of himself.
In Israel last week, the Republican Party presidential nominee declared that the Arab worl...
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I’m spending the month in my hometown near the port city of San Diego, which hosts a large concentration of US Navy and Marine facilities. Needless to say, the affairs of the two...
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