Progressive Myopia
Myopia is a gentle word for this response on the dailykos.com front page to Maureen Dowd's column in the New York Times, "Isn't it Rich?" And this week, for her outstanding achievement in attacking —...
View ArticleIslamophobia
In the Bill Maher - Ben Affleck kerfuffle the other day, Affleck voiced a conventional opinion. e.g., Affleck said that a minority of radical Islamists shouldn’t give a bad name to the overwhelming...
View ArticleWith Equal Justice for All
Take a look at the pictures on this page: EFI Senior Leadership.Why should you look at them?They are involved in this story: Eight workers from India were paid as little as $1.21 an hour by a tech...
View ArticleLiberal Romneyism
Mitt Romney is notorious for the disdain he expressed for the 47%. After Election Day, when the Democratic Party got thoroughly walloped, not just at the Federal level, but also in the States, Daily...
View ArticleHoney or Vinegar?
I remember sometime during the summer I think, there was a diary showing the huge upsurge in unique visitors to dailykos.com; pretty remarkable in part because the readership of conservative sites was...
View ArticleFed up with Ferguson
Some of the people on dailykos.com are as fact-challenged as the conservative right. And also otherwise challenged. To quote anything from the nearly 5000 pages of released transcript of the...
View ArticleSarah Haider: Islam and the Necessity of Liberal Critique
Update (2)- full transcript of the speech below the fold.Please listen to Sarah Haider on the timid response of liberals to the problems posed by Islam.My opinion is that absent a liberal critique of...
View ArticleGive an inch, lose a mile
An objective observer of the American situation and liberals in particular jokingly told me - the privileged white male can become one of the oppressed that the liberals have to protect simply by...
View ArticleThe Fourth World War
Indian journalist, member of the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of Parliament), and national spokesman of the Bharatiya Janata Party (the current ruling party) talks about the fourth world war that...
View ArticleProf. C.C. Fair's brutal & insightful talk on Pakistan
Prof. C. Christine Fair of Georgetown University explains the horror that is the state of Pakistan, and why the US keeps subsidizing that mess. This is a talk she gave in Hyderabad, India. She lapses...
View ArticleInternment? or worse?
Digby, at Hullabaloo, highlighted something that Wes Clark, once a Democratic Presidential contender, recently said: Clark: We have got to identify the people who are most likely to be...
View ArticleThe Other Way Round
Taslima Nasreen, the courageous Bangladeshi writer, who was hounded out of Bangladesh by Islamists; took asylum in India, but had to flee from there also, after Islamists set up a hit list of 89...
View ArticleRafida Bonya Ahmed - 'Fighting machetes with pens'
Wiki: Avijit Roy (Bengali: অভিজিৎ রায়; 12 September 1972 – 26 February 2015) was a Bangladeshi American online activist, writer, blogger known for pioneering Bengali freethinkers’ weblog-forum,...
View ArticleAddressing ‘Anti-Muslimism’ and ‘Islamophobia’
I came upon this essay at Sultan Shahin's Rethinking Islam blog, where it is quoted in full, but the original is by Wasim Iqbal, posted at New Age Islam.It begins as follows: Not long after it was...
View ArticleRaif Badawi: 1000 Lashes
Raif Badawi is the Saudi blogger who was sentenced to death, later commuted to 1000 lashes, for his blog posts, that advocated separation of religion and state, and that asked for the deadening grip of...
View ArticleThe minimum to do
In her speech to the American Humanist Association, Sarah Haider pointed out that The tragedy of the Eastern past isn't that we haven't given birth to reformers but that the violence of our oppressors...
View ArticleIslamists kill 4th Bangladeshi blogger this year
The New York Times reportss report from Reuters: DHAKA — Attackers armed with machetes killed a blogger in Bangladesh on Friday, the fourth killing of an online critic of religious extremism in less...
View ArticleWhat is needed for peace in Afghanistan
Reuters, to set the context:: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani demanded that Pakistan crack down on the Taliban after a car bomb explosion near Kabul airport claimed by the Islamist militants killed five...
View ArticleOn Facebook Islamists threaten 6 more
News:The terrorist organization Ansar Bangladesh has issued threats against six more Bangladeshis. "There are three anti-Islamic poets & three organisers of blogs. They are the enemy of Islam. We...
View ArticleBangladeshi Blogger wins Journalism Prize
The avid bloggers of dailykos.com would probably cheer this news. One of the Bangladeshi bloggers, under threat from Islamists at home, has won a journalism prize while in his home-in-exile in...
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