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15 Feb

...wasn't describing right-wingers in general; I was referring to the author, who is the head of the Cornell College Republicans. He is indeed a right-winger, as a simple google search -- the kind he's obviously not capable of -- makes clear. I've amended the post. Patrick S. O'Donnell His next piece will be more ambitious and thus inform us that international law (or what is virtually the same thing, 'global legalism') except, perhaps--and only then on occasion--international economic law that is subservient to the axioms of neoliberalism insofar as it...
15.02.13 | |

14 Sep

...discussion. Islam already has "most favored religion status" in the West when it comes to suppression of speech. We already self-censor ourselves to an enormous degree. As the Director General of the BBC noted earlier this year in discussing why it treated Christianity differently than Islam “Without question, ‘I complain in the strongest possible terms’, is different from, ‘I complain in the strongest possible terms and I am loading my AK47 as I write’,” he said. “This definitely raises the stakes.” To further twist our society in knots to appease...
14.09.12 | |

26 Feb

Dawood I. Ahmed "Indeed, such treaties can often be counterproductive to domestic reformers who lose some credibility by being too closely associated with foreign and international powers" - true for most Muslim majority countries too. I wonder if others here are aware of empirical research, whether based on case studies or otherwise, demonstrating this point? Patrick S. O'Donnell The treaties are no longer "too closely associated with foreign and international powers" if the country in question, in this case China, ratify them. Compare, for example, the use by Charter 77...
26.02.13 | |