#thomas_friedman

The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: #Thomas_Friedman is caught in a major fabrication
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2018/02/thomas-friedman-is-caught-in-major.html

He says this about the May 17, 1983 humiliating Lebanese-Israeli peace agreement: “Lebanese militias, led by Hezbollah, quickly emerged to resist the May 17 treaty.” Hizbullah militia lead the effort? Hizbullah militia did NOT even exist at the time. Hizbullah’s name was not even known at the time, and it was not released. Amal Movement and PSP and other allies were behind the revolt against Amin Gemayel administration and the May 17 agreement. If he fabricates about an event that he says he witnessed, can you imagine his fabrications about events he has not witnessed?

The #fabricator

The Rise of the Thought Leader | New Republic
▻https://newrepublic.com/article/143004/rise-thought-leader-how-superrich-funded-new-class-intellectual

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Writing in one of Mussolini’s prisons in the 1930s, the Italian Marxist Antonio #Gramsci jotted down the fragments that would become his theory of intellectuals. New classes, like the European bourgeoisie after the Industrial Revolution, he proposed, brought with them their own set of thinkers, which he called “organic intellectuals”—theorists, technicians, and administrators, who became their “functionaries” in a new society. Unlike “traditional intellectuals” who held positions in the old class structure, organic intellectuals helped the bourgeoisie establish its ideas as the invisible, unquestioned conventional wisdom circulating in social institutions.

Today, Gramsci’s theory has been largely overlooked in the ongoing debate over the supposed decline of the “public intellectual” in America. Great minds, we are told, no longer captivate the public as they once did, because the university is too insular and academic thinking is too narrow.

#Thomas_Friedman #Nicholas_Kristof etc.. et même #Daniel_Drezner #chiens_de_garde #fausses_pistes

Darwin’s Mistake
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/thomas-friedman-book-new-york-times-columnist

À propos de #Thomas_Friedman et de son dernier livre. #Lol

How, in an age in which “the fast eat the slow,” has Thomas Friedman not been gobbled up?

The late Alexander Cockburn, reflecting on the work of decorated #New_York_Times foreign affairs columnist and neoliberal warmonger #extraordinaire Thomas Friedman, once observed: “Friedman’s is an industrial, implacable noise, like having a generator running under the next table in a restaurant. The only sensible thing to do is leave.”

But while generators at least serve a rather obvious function, the same can’t usually be said of Friedman, who has just spewed out his latest unnecessarily humongous book Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations.

Some New Variables in Arab Politics
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/angry-corner/some-new-variables-arab-politics

There are many clichés said and written about the Arab world. In fact, Western analysis of Arab politics is deficient without a healthy amount of clichés. One can’t read a short piece on Arab politics without reading the word “bazaar,” and one can’t read anything about Arab women without a section about the veil and its various forms. For those who insist on cliché-ridden analysis of Arab politics, one should ask them to insert new clichés, at least, to make room for new realities and conditions in the region.

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#Egypt #Libya #NATO #Saudi_Arabia #thomas_friedman #united_states

The Presidential Hack List: Ranking Barack Obama’s favorite columnists - Salon.com
▻http://www.salon.com/2013/12/23/the_presidential_hack_list_ranking_barack_obamas_favorite_columnists

Barack #Obama loves newspaper columnists. He reads them, because he thinks they offer smarter commentary than one hears on cable news, and he invites them to the White House regularly, so he can influence their writing. Unfortunately, judging by media reports of his favorites, he has terrible taste in newspaper columnists. Every columnist ever specifically named as an Obama favorite, with one exception, is white. None are women. Nearly all of them, to a man, vigorously supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003

2. #Thomas_Friedman, The Davos Herald-Register. Possibly the dumbest human being ever to write a column for a major newspaper. It’s terrifying that a president would take him seriously.

Shameless Self Promotion : T.O. Molefe makes New York Times debut
▻http://africasacountry.com/shameless-self-promotion-12

#The_New_York_Times gave us Kristof, Friedman and Brooks. We gave them the Rt Hon T.O. Molefe. Africa is a Country’s T.O. Molefe, one of two dozen new columnists, made his debut in The International New York Times today.

#JOURNALISM #MEDIA #African_National_Congress #Cape_Town #David_Brooks #Helen_Zille #Nicholas_Kristof #South_Africa #Thomas_Friedman

Processus de paix israélo-palestinien (14 juin 2013)

Deux articles sur l’incapacité des décideurs politique israéliens à trouver un accord avec les Palestiniens.

1. ▻http://forward.com/articles/178206/on-palestinians-israels-leadership-has-a-split-per

The Jewish Daily Forward/ JJ Goldberg met en avant l’écart qui existe entre les responsables militaires et de sécurité israéliens et la classe politique israélienne. Les militaires et la sécurité jugent régulièrement qu’un accord de paix est possible avec les Palestiniens. Les politiques considèrent que la rétrocession de territoires aux Palestiniens est un risque qui n’en vaut pas la peine.

2. ▻http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/05/why-bibi-won-t-really-give-peace-a-chance.html

Elisheva Goldberg, dans The Daily Beast, explique que la volonté affichée du Premier ministre Netanyahou de faire la paix n’est pas sincère.

#Saudi_Crow_Prince_Abdullah, #Thomas_Friedman, #Sharon, #Saudi_peace_plan, #Arab_League, #Efraim_Halevy, #Netanya, #Hamas, #Israeli_Arab_conflict, #Yitzhak_Rabin, #Ehud_Barak, #Ehud_Olmert, #Camp_David, #The_Gatekeepers, #John_Kerry

#Netanyahu, #2002_Arab_peace_plan, #Arab_Peace_Initiative, #Give_peace_a_chance, #Naftali_Bennett, #Ahmed_Tibi, #Shelly_Yachimovitch

This Is Just The Start - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/opinion/02friedman.html

#Thomas_Friedman is an idiot

Up With Egypt - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/opinion/09friedman.html?ref=thomaslfriedman

#Thomas_Friedman conclut dans son article que les égyptiens n’ont aucun problème avec le traité de paix avec Israël (ainsi que ses nombreuses contraintes pour l’Égypte), et que la condition des palestiniens n’a rien à voir avec leurs aspirations.

C’est pour mieux critiquer un futur gouvernement égyptien qui voudrait soutenir les palestiniens, en faisant croire que ce nouveau gouvernement est sous l’emprise des frères musulmans puisqu’il a dévié des « vraies aspirations » de son peuple (celles définies par Friedman).

Egyptians are not asking for Palestine or for Allah. They are asking for the keys to their own future, which this regime took away from them. They are not inspired by “down with” America or Israel. They are inspired by “Up with Egypt” and “Up with me.”