How We Lived on It (27) – L’Eclisse

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• Generation Y
  Looking for a Lost Pill: Photo taken from http://habanero2000.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/ansioliticos-en-la-habana/ The piece...
  
• Dissent
  The June meeting of the SOCCCD BOT: "jackass free":      [Please see Tere's Board Meeting Highlights.]      I just entered...
  
• Two Weeks Notice
  Law Enforcement and Citizenship: Normally you figure that law enforcement officials care about...law enforcement. Apparently that is...
  
• CiF Watch
  Guardian’s David Hearst participates in discussion on the power of the Israel lobby: Cross posted by Mark Gardner at the blog of the CST. Swapping “Zionist” or “pro-Israeli”�...
  
• Grasping Reality with Both Hands
  Hoisted from the Archives from a Year Ago: John Cochrane Claims the U.S. Is at Risk of Becoming "Argentina": Noah Smith: Noah Bravely Takes the Cochrane-Argentina Side of the Bet…: **UPDATE (June 2013):** We now have two years to run. If Noah wants to back out of his position, I w...
  
• Jeff Weintraub
  Was the Iranian election a referendum on Iran's nuclear diplomacy?: Omid Memarian (along with other analysts) suggests that it was, at least in part. Hasan Rowhani’s...
  
• Terry Glavin: Chronicles & Dissent
  Sorry, No. You Are Not Living In Oceania Airstrip One.: From my Ottawa Citizen perch: If we are to turn to the great George Orwell in this hour of our NSA...
  
• Harry's Place
  Welfarism, Red State style: Guest post by Andrew Murphy The crony capitalists of the farm belt are lining up to suckle once agai...
  
• Elder of Ziyon
  EU audit finds €1 billion aid to Egypt is wasted: From FT.com: The €1bn in EU aid supplied to Egypt over the past seven years has done little to ac...
  
• normblog
  Morality, necessity and realism in Syria: As one of those (few?) who doesn't know what the best thing to do about Syria is, I don't mind shari...
  
• Crooked Timber
  Edward Snowden’s Retail Psychoanalysts in the Media: As soon as the Edward Snowden story broke, retail psychoanalysts in the media began to psychologize...
  
• The Rubin Report
  Obama Doctrine: Backing Middle East Radicals After 10 Previous Western Failures: By Barry RubinThere is a long history of Western powers believing that they could manipulate or work...
  
• It's Complicated
  Judith Butler and 9/11 and How We Grieve: It is paradoxical that on 9/11, when we grieve for the victims of an atrocious act of terrorism, Jud...
  
• The Long War Journal
  ISAF captures al Qaeda trainer in Kunar: The International Security Assistance Force confirmed that an al Qaeda leader and trainer who was ta...
  
• Jeffrey Goldberg
  Signing Off: I'm not going to rehearse the manifold victories of Goldblog, or wallow in its setbacks.  ...
  
• Ezra Klein
  The best sentences we read today: – “You have studied the words of the Prophet Tufte, and you have concluded that they dem...