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Pirates in Somalia: Blowback?
Is it just me or is the Los Angeles Times becoming the newspaper of conscience in the United States? It raises the question of past American policies, namely under the Bush administration’s war on terror agenda — which justified foreign interventions in the name of security. Somalia is all over the headlines lately for the [...]
An Iraqi Declaration of Independence
A Creative and Satirical version of an Iraqi Declaration of Independence based off the American Declaration of Independence written in 1776. It was drafted and pieced together by Kabobfest friend, Carlos But first, a clip from six years ago that we’re all very familiar with:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkOCIfNQXP0] إعلان الاستقلال العراقيThe Iraqi Declaration of Independence IN MAJLIS, MARCH [...]
El Salvador, the Wrong Kind of Red State
The Obama of El SalvadorIt seems the Republicans have lost another election. This time, it’s in El Salvador. Days before the recent Salvadoran presidential elections, five Republican Congressmen gave speeches on the floor of the House of Representatives warning that an electoral victory by the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) would hurt the Salvadorans [...]
Jury Still Out on the Juryless Military Commissions
Soldiers escort an enemy combatant The War on Terror suffered a major lexical loss yesterday when the Obama administration tossed the legalistic euphemism, and Bush invention, “enemy combatant” into the dustbin of shameful history. The Bush administration invented the term in order to circumvent preexisting legal structures that gave the accused an inconvenient array of [...]
Iraq Throws the Book at Shoe-tosser
Freedom of expression is alive and well in liberated Iraq. An Iraqi court sentenced television journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi to three years in jail for tossing his shoes at then-American president George W. Bush in December. He missed. And everyone knows it was not a physical attack meant to harm, but meant as an act of [...]
Obama Picked Wrong Bosworth for North Korea Envoy
The one right stance of the Bush administration was that it played tough with North Korea, one of the craziest and looniest countries in the world, behind Saudi of course. Like everything else the Bush administration did, they failed in that, too. North Korea easily played the six-party talks, giving Cheney extra discomfort, possibly in [...]
Obama’s War on the War on Terror; but Don’t Let Gitmo Go to Waste
OK, so maybe he was not totally bullshitting us. Or maybe he is. President Obama took some impressive measures to undo a boatload of President Bush’s War on Terror legalistic machinations according to the Washington Post. Yes, for the Post, Obama’s executive order undermining the war on terror, was panty-wetting: Key components of the secret [...]
Arab-Americans React to the Inauguration*…”Game Over For BUSH”
Excitedly yelled my autistic brother all of twenty-one years, who caught a glimpse of the pre-oath ceremonies before skipping off to get ready for school that morning. My brother’s deep patriotism, one that awaited the day the departure of Bush was made official, welcomed this moment as the culmination of lost hope in a man [...]
The “Arab Culture” and the Shoe: Let’s Put on our Orientalist Anthropological Musing Caps On Shall We?
The official play-by-playBush: “Shukran Jazeera” (hehehe)First Shoe: “This is a kiss goodbye, you son of a dog (Ibn kalb)” Second Shoe: “this is for the widows, the orphans, and all those killed in Iraq.” Not only did those comments and the conjoined hurling of shoes spark what would later be known as “shoe-gate,” but it [...]
Latuff: The pathetic end of the Bush Era
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