Orientalism 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...
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 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 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 ArticleIsrael/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...
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