Why Don’t Muslims Speak Out Against ISIS?!
ABC News’ Laura Ingraham, Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Fox & Friends and other U.S. media commentators say that Muslims are silent and complicit in the barbarian crimes of ISIS. Fox News host Andrea Tantaros said that all Muslims are the same as ISIS, and implied that all Muslims should be met “with a bullet to the head”.
▻http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-23/why-dont-muslims-speak-out-against-isis
#islam #Etat_islamique #ISIS #silence #charlie_hebdo
New Zealand budget drives deepening austerity - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/27/nzbd-m27.html
New Zealand budget drives deepening austerity
By John Braddock
27 May 2013
New Zealand’s National Party-led government handed down its 2013 budget on May 16. While presented by media commentators as a moderate, “steady-as-she-goes” budget, it received a positive reception from the financial markets. It entrenches the ruling elite’s austerity agenda and initiates the next phase of asset sales.
Le site Jadaliyya publie un très intéressant article d’un certain Paul Amar. Il s’agit, essentiellement, d’un panorama des forces en présence en Égypte. Si vous ne devez lire qu’un article aujourd’hui, celui-là me semble un bon candidat...
Why Mubarak is Out
►http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/516/why-mubarak-is-out-
Many international media commentators – and some academic and political analysts – are having a hard time understanding the complexity of forces driving and responding to these momentous events. This confusion is driven by the binary “good guys versus bad guys” lenses most use to view this uprising. Such perspectives obscure more than they illuminate. There are three prominent binary models out there and each one carries its own baggage: (1) People versus Dictatorship: This perspective leads to liberal naïveté and confusion about the active role of military and elites in this uprising. (2) Seculars versus Islamists: This model leads to a 1980s-style call for “stability” and Islamophobic fears about the containment of the supposedly extremist “Arab street.” Or, (3) Old Guard versus Frustrated Youth: This lens imposes a 1960s-style romance on the protests but cannot begin to explain the structural and institutional dynamics driving the uprising, nor account for the key roles played by many 70-year-old Nasser-era figures.
To map out a more comprehensive view, it may be helpful to identify the moving parts within the military and police institutions of the security state and how clashes within and between these coercive institutions relate to shifting class hierarchies and capital formations. I will also weigh these factors in relation to the breadth of new non-religious social movements and the internationalist or humanitarian identity of certain figures emerging at the center of the new opposition coalition.
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I wonder how this Fulbright Post-Doctoral scholar living in California managed to detail in full the situation in Egypt without even once mentioning the influence of the United States and Israel into the upheaval mix.