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15 Jul 2008

The Condoleezza Fan Club

Condoleezza Rice’s conception of the "international community" recalls the same sense of rallying the West behind American empire that I get from Huntington's "clash of civilizations": a great divide that casts America as the valiant defender of all we hold dear.

Tags: Geography, Place and Power . Truth, Narrative, Right . United States Foreign Relations

17 May 2008

Putting Annapolis away?

Was Bush's recent speech to the Israeli Knesset trying to kill the "peace process"?

Tags: Christian Churches (Christianity) . Peace Process . United States Foreign Relations

1 May 2008

Assigning Right and Rights in Beit Hanoun

On the 28th of April, Israel fired missiles at targets in Beit Hanoun. Establishing the truth becomes a battleground over the nature of the conflict and its actors, where the power to assert Right overwhelms the capacity to determine the truth.

Tags: Truth, Narrative, Right

15 Apr 2006

Undermining Democracy, Empowering Autocracy

On February 1, 2006, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (R) Florida, introduced H.R. 4681, ostensibly designed "to promote the development of democratic institutions in areas under the administrative control of the Palestinian Authority." In fact, the resolution will isolate and marginalize the Palestinian Authority, and punish Palestinian civilians for electing Hamas into control of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).

Tags: Abbas, Mahmoud (Abu Masen) . Palestinian Authority . United States Foreign Relations