Tweet Albert Campus in his Novel The Stranger, published, 1942, he talks about emptiness of life, after killing an arab on the beach in Algeria where he lived, Which inspired a musical band “The Cure” to have a hit song by the same name “Killing an Arab. This is the NFL version of “Flagging a Muslim” on the football field. I don’t usually watch or follow football, let alone Monday Night Football. It involves too much hype and too much violence. It’s too patriotic, too black and white, too territorial — too American. A game that celebrate American exceptionalism. But like millions around the world, I heard the news…
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Why iPhone users are more likely to join ISIS than those who eat Falafel…
Tweet Dropping his first iPhone6 in a TV interview “like Hansel and Gretel hoping to follow their breadcrumbs out of the forest, the FBI sifted through customer data collected by san Francisco-area grocery stores in 2005 and 2006, hoping that sales records of middle eastern food, would lead to Iranian terrorists.” reported Jeff stein foreign policy magazine, what is next? falafel breath detector at the airport? Trevor Aaronson’s (whom I had on my show) in his book, the Terror Factory, Aaronson poured through the court records of every terrorism- related prosecution in the us in the ten years following 9/11. a staggering list of 508 defendants, according to…
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Professor Williams Beeman, Who is Gertrude Bell, Founder of Modern Iraq or a Spy.
Tweet Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist and spy who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her skill and contacts, built up through extensive travels in Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia. Along with T. E. Lawrence, Bell helped establish the Hashemite dynasties in what is today Jordan as well as in Iraq. She played a major role in establishing and helping administer the modern state of Iraq, utilising her unique perspective from her travels and relations with tribal leaders throughout the Middle East. During her lifetime she was highly esteemed and trusted by British officials and given…