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  • You think so?

    Real Estate and Food prices pushed up by NGOs? Well since only Afghan nationals are allowed to purchase real estate that is pretty difficult. Prices are being pushed up by drug selling commanders. And food prices are going up all over the world dear. If the NGOs did not buy the food for the poor it would never come to Afghanistan in the first ...
    Posted to Foreigners by jawadbek on September 23, 2008

  • Re: Weak logic...

    Amy, If you read it, the last thing it says before the list is ''politicization,'' so yes technically she is not including Munich as a ''successful protest'' as I summarized it. However what is politicization other than the outcome of protest? My point is unchanged. The murders of Munich were not political hay, they were an act of murder, ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Ygalbot on March 25, 2008

  • Weak logic...

    Boycott has not done much. To say the Russian boycott of the '84 games was a ''success'' seems like a bit of a stretch, and to say that the American boycott in '80 was a success has more weight, but is still pretty damn thin. Whether or not it weakened Soviet propaganda efforts significantly is debatable, but what is not debatable is that the ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Ygalbot on March 25, 2008

  • Spielberg Quits Olympics

    So is this a big deal? How much art direction was left undone with only five months to showtime? I think that he did the work, but left before attending the Olympics in order to look like he was taking a stand....
    Posted to Hollywoodland by Cynthlam007 on February 14, 2008

  • Re: No Fly Zone Option

    jwschmidt: Usama, you can't blame the US for the darfur situation because we still sorta support Khartoum in your own post, and then shoot down the idea that we should cut ties with Darfur and clean up the mess. Thats a contradiction, and it just exposes you as not really caring about darfur. I will dismiss your swipe that I do not care ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on February 2, 2008

  • Kenya Part of the US "Great Game" in Africa

    The conundrum of Africa's seemingly unending instability and conflicts resides in the origin, composition, and legacy of the African nation states and their colonial overlords. After defeating various peoples and defining their political and geographic circumstances based on all kinds of conflicting and questionable interests, the colonial ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on January 22, 2008

  • Selective morality

    To paraphrase Orwell, some genocides are more equal than others!
    Posted to Foreigners by LinguaFranca on August 28, 2007

  • eric reeves said it first

    As far as I know, the first person to call Spielberg ''Leni Riefenstahl'' was actually Smith College professor Eric Reeves, in a telephone press conference at the launch of Dream for Darfur on June 13, 2007. Maybe she said it before him - funny she'd choose to pick this out - it seemed like a passing, though interesting, comment of his.
    Posted to Hollywoodland by dcafrique on July 28, 2007