Israel/Palestine still suffers from Britain’s colonial legacy
L: The British mandate of Palestine. R: From a British recruitment booklet. Elsewhere in my internet life, a discussion of the whiteness–or not–of Ashkenazi Jews arose. Specifically, the idea being...
View ArticleSnipers fire on UN chemical weapons investigators; Western countries...
The regime may have finally gone too far for Russia’s protection. Unidentified snipers have opened fire on a convoy of UN experts investigating suspected chemical weapons attacks in Syria’s capital,...
View ArticleProxy wars: Syria’s war continues to spill into Lebanon
Image from Vice Okay, so Vice is not at all my favorite source, but proxy wars are kind of my thing (and I appreciate that they used the term!), so here we go. Over the past eight days, fighting...
View ArticleAl Asad threatens to make the Golan a major battlefront, tries to misdirect...
Oh, Bashar, sometimes you are so obvious it’s almost embarrassing. From The Australian: SYRIA’S President Bashar al-Assad has threatened to open “a new front” against Israel in the Golan Heights, as...
View ArticleOrientalism as social engineering
I’d like to understand better what is meant here by “the pre-colonial criminal justice system of India,” since India had rarely been considered all one nation under the same laws until independence...
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