Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Irfan Orga

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A Turkish author whom I have read, to add to the Turkish reading list. A bookseller in Istanbul said I must read Orga's "Portrait o...

Orhan Pamuk

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Yesterday, President Bush quoted Ohrhan Pamuk in Istanbul , when he called for Turkey's inclusion in the European Union (an attempt to r...

Jihad Watch

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This tip from Little Green Footballs, an interesting site: Jihad Watch .

Mark Steyn on the 9/11 Commission

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Steyn's essay is called How the Sept. 11 commission blew it . Quote: "These poseurs have blown it so badly they've become t...

Matt Labash on Michael Moore

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Labash reviews Farenheit 9/11 here. The Weekly Standard also reprints an earlier Labash article, Michael Moore, One-Trick Phony , with thi...

Gang Stages Sixth Bank Holdup -- in Our Washington, DC Neighborhood...

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We saw the police cars, TV crews, and yellow tape yesterday, then watched Fox News on WTTG broadcast footage of men wearing ski masks and ca...

Putin v. Yukos, Round 3

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A Russian court has ruled that the government can seize Yukos assets to pay back taxes. What does this mean for Putin and the future of capi...
Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Fouad Ajami on Iraq

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"America is not to stay long in Iraq. No scheme is being hatched for the subjugation of Iraq's people. No giant American air bases ...

Leaving Islam

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An interesting title by a secularist named Ibn Warraq, found on a link from the website below at Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out . I...

Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society

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Take a look at the Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society .

80% of Iraqis want US to stop patrolling cities

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Jonathan Steele, in The Guardian, has the story .

Voices of Iraqis

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From The Guardian .

Privatise the BBC?

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On the other hand, not everyone in Britain seems to want to give the BBC a chance. "Kelvin MacKenzie, the former Sun editor and bos...

BBC Issues Manifesto

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Michael Grade, the new head of the BBC has issued a Manifesto . According to the Guardian: "he also made the creative standards of th...

The Kurds Worry about Iraq Handover

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"Kurdish politicians speculate that the power transfer to the interim Iraqi government could launch a series of political account settl...

Wanderlustress

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Just added "Wanderlustress" to the blog links on the left, thanks to a link from The Argus. A sample post: About Me : "I b...

Victor Davis Hanson on the Iraq Handover

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Here : "The key, of course, will be for the United States to stay engaged as it did in Korea and the Balkans--and not flee as it did in...

Tariq Ali and Daniel Pipes on the Iraq Handover

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From Australian broadcasting's Lateline . Some highlights: Tariq Ali: In any of these countries, if democracy comes, and I think peop...
Monday, June 28, 2004

National Review on Iraq Handover

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Not looking good, as best one can say, according to Michael Rubin is : "Even though the rushed, secret handover telegraphed fear, Iraqi...

Juan Cole on the Iraq Handover

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What does it mean that Paul Bremer left Iraq ahead of schdule? Juan Cole argues that Bremer is fleeing his own disaster.