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Archives for December 2013

Christianity
GOP:  No Climate Change because, Bible

GOP: No Climate Change because, Bible

Juan Cole

Opposing views points to the scary ignorance and bible-thumping to which GOP representatives in Congress are appealing in their genocidal stand against quick action on climate change. If you have to have a biblical theology about these things, it should be the old-fashioned one that human beings are stewards of the earth and have a […]

Best-Selling German Satirical Novel About Return of Hitler To Be Made Into Film

Best-Selling German Satirical Novel About Return of Hitler To Be Made Into Film

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A best-selling German satirical novel about the return of Adolf Hitler to modern-day Germany is being adapted into a film. Click here for the rest of the article…

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Jazz Oud from Tunisia:  Dhafer Youseff, "Eastern Waves"

Jazz Oud from Tunisia: Dhafer Youseff, “Eastern Waves”

Juan Cole

Tunisian oud jazz by Dhafer Youseff Dhafer Youseff Quartet, “Eastern Waves” (“Les Ondes Orientales”) For more on the artist see CCTV :

US politics
Almost Human: How Robots, Race and Neoliberalism killed Detroit and what it Means for You

Almost Human: How Robots, Race and Neoliberalism killed Detroit and what it Means for You

Juan Cole

Detroit can go into bankruptcy, a judge has ruled. Likely it means that workers’ pensions will be at least in part stolen from them. It is a good occasion to reprint this recent piece on post-industrial decline, robots and the future of capital and labor: Reprint Edition The big question is whether Detroit’s bankruptcy and […]

Energy
Nevada's "Crescent Dune" Solar Facility will Produce Energy at Night

Nevada’s “Crescent Dune” Solar Facility will Produce Energy at Night

Juan Cole

Jared Anderson at Breaking Energy writes of technologies for solar power storage that allow the energy generated by the sun to be released at night: “a US-based company will jump ahead of the competition next year with its molten salt storage technique. “This technology at this size would leap-frog us into [energy] storage leaders,” Solar […]

censorship
Blacked Out:  Could Governments just Erase Dissidents from the Internet with a Click?

Blacked Out: Could Governments just Erase Dissidents from the Internet with a Click?

Juan Cole

By Peter Van Buren What if Edward Snowden was made to disappear? No, I’m not suggesting some future CIA rendition effort or a who-killed-Snowden conspiracy theory of a disappearance, but a more ominous kind. What if everything a whistleblower had ever exposed could simply be made to go away? What if every National Security Agency […]

Featured
Sunni-Shiite Tensions soar in Lebanon; Hizbullah accuses Saudis in Iran Embassy Bombing

Sunni-Shiite Tensions soar in Lebanon; Hizbullah accuses Saudis in Iran Embassy Bombing

Juan Cole

Several dramatic accusations and events have heightened Sunni-Shiite tensions in Lebanon, as the Syrian Civil War continues to spill over onto Beirut’s politics. In the northern city of Tripoli, Sunni Salafis (who support the rebels in Syria) have fought in recent days with `Alawis (a sect of the Shiites, who support Syria’s Alawite-dominated Baath government), […]

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On the 80th Anniversary of Repeal of Prohibition, Why isn't Marijuana Legal?

On the 80th Anniversary of Repeal of Prohibition, Why isn’t Marijuana Legal?

Juan Cole

It is the eightieth anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition. Among the many reasons for the popularity of banning alcohol in the US then were the concern of industrialists such as Henry Ford for the creation of a sober, industrious working class. Prohibition was in part intended to regiment and control working people and ensure […]

Dissent
The Public Professor: Dissent in Commodified Higher Education

The Public Professor: Dissent in Commodified Higher Education

Juan Cole

by Christian Christensen The Public Professor: Dissent in Commodified Higher Education Or…What Kind of University Will My Daughter Attend in 2027? The following is the text of my public Professorial Installation lecture given at Uppsala University. These lectures have been given at Uppsala University for centuries, and are intended for a broad audience. In 1967, […]

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