Where are you from? You can’t be American! There are people who are so gauche unintentionally. And then there are the ones who know better but purposefully go the other direction…
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On Building An Inclusive Society
Maybe it’s not just a funny joke that the Irish were once seen as subhuman. Maybe we’re all better off including new people just because it’s the right thing to do.
Continue readingPutting Hillary Clinton’s Foreign Policy on Blast
Or… Chafee’ing at the Bit Last week, former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee announced his intention to run for the Democratic nomination to the
Continue readingChris Christie Needs to STFU
Daniel Larison of The American Conservative, who is one of my favorite writers on foreign policy, nails the failed War on Yemen while reviewing
Continue readingThe USA doesn’t owe its damned allegiance to Israel or Saudi Arabia
In an Economist.com article on a scheduled summit between American and the six members of the Gulf Co-operation Council on May 13th and 14th,
Continue readingMuslim or Black in America
I think, if there’s one thing I will like about President Obama’s term coming to an end, it is that perhaps the extreme right-wing
Continue readingAmerican(ized) #Islam
Culture and religion, no matter how universal we may want to view the latter’s principles, are inexorably tied. Islam strives to be a religion
Continue readingThe USA, NATO, Russia, China, and the Monroe Doctrine
In his latest show, Common Sense podcaster Dan Carlin talked about how the actions of Russia are in large part an answer to NATO
Continue readingMaking South America the new Middle East
or… Amurrica, FUCK YEAH! The Middle East is passé. The USA is getting the hillel outta Iraq and Afghanistan and all the better says
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