by Erik Kain on January 3, 2012
Time’s 2011 ‘Person’ of the Year was ‘The Protester’ as embodied by the protesters fueling the Arab Spring and Occupy . Writing from his new perch at The Atlantic, Robert Wright takes issue with Time’s choice: I wish that three weeks ago Time magazine hadn’t named ‘The Protestor’ the person of the year for 2011. It [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 25, 2011
I want to echo essentially everything Freddie deBoer says here (and again in his disturbing follow-up.) The Libyan war was articulation enough of the arrogance and disdain of American (and Western European) foreign policy. The horrific murder of the murderous Qaddafi simply underscores this. The repercussions of our actions, however swift a victory Libya may have been, are [...]
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