How much longer must we tolerate mass culture?

cluster ____

2007-10-11T02:32:11Z

See, this is what kind of mess we're in.... Musharraf has assumed command. Funny, but it's going just like I thought: the deal with Bhutto seems primarily to be a deal with the Taliban. Don't believe me? Read the reports: you've got troops being ...

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A whole bunch o' Politics

2007-10-05T01:31:16Z

In Pakistan, military coups are as often as not, the preferred method of securing a government. However loathsome that may be, it's the driving force for the current turmoil. With Bhutto finally seeing that amnesty or no amnesty, Musharraf has tr...

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And while we're on that part o' the world

2007-09-15T00:28:58Z

You might have heard about the skirmishes in Iran and Iraq, with both sides saying it was the other? Well, what that was concerned the Kurds. The Kurds, as an ethnic group, spill over into Iran, and Syria, and Turkey. They, of course, would like ...

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Not quite Far East

2007-09-02T06:02:12Z

I probably could write four books on the Middle East. Not only did I live there for a few years, I studied the history of it for two years in college. Maybe that's why I've got a different perspective than most Americans on the topic. For example...

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Back to the known

2007-07-19T04:13:23Z

So, I hear that George W Bush still thinks the surge is working, and won't be rethinking, even in september. This is supposed to be news? I'm pretty certain that Mr. Bush has made explicit that he feels that God is on his side, and has his hand g...

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