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• 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...
  
• Dissent
  Selections from Making History (2001): a "very conservative board":      Faculty and administrators from the early days of Saddleback College (1968-1979)...
  
• 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...
  
• Grasping Reality with Both Hands
  Brian Stops by to Say: "Berkeley Political Economy Majors Need to Read Not Less But More Hegel!": ...
  
• Ezra Klein
  Liveblogging the FOMC and Bernanke’s press conference: The Federal Reserve’s policy committee met Tuesday and Wednesday, and at 2 p.m., the Federal O...
  
• Jeffrey Goldberg
  Signing Off: I'm not going to rehearse the manifold victories of Goldblog, or wallow in its setbacks.  ...
  
• Two Weeks Notice
  Kristina Mani's Democratization and Military Transformation in Argentina and Chile: I read Kristina Mani's Democratization and Military Transformation in Argentina and Chile (2011...
  
• The Long War Journal
  Shabaab suicide assault team storms UN compound in Mogadishu: A suicide assault team from Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, attacked a United Nations base...
  
• 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...
  
• 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...
  
• Generation Y
  Looking for a Lost Pill: Photo taken from http://habanero2000.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/ansioliticos-en-la-habana/ The piece...
  
• 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”�...
  
• 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...
  
• Elder of Ziyon
  It's such a shame when crazed Islamists hate each other: From Reuters: Hamas said on Wednesday its relations with financial backer Iran have suffered as a r...
  
• 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...
  
• Harry's Place
  Cynthia McKinney will headline far-right “Freedompalooza”: Remember Cynthia McKinney, the conspiracy-minded former Democratic congresswoman from Georgia? McKi...