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Cradle to Grave: Hezbollah Children In the debates during and after the recent war in Lebanon, supporters of Hezbollah have tried to represent it as a deliverer of social welfare and not as a terrorist organization. Let us leave aside the question as to why a social welfare organization would be armed to the teeth and dwell for a moment in order to consider the claim itself and its theoretical/political implications. The utopia of the social welfare state has been phrased for a more than a century in terms of providing benefits to its client-citizens "from cradle to grave." In...

Arab Imperialism And Arab Supremacism Posted: Apr 20th, 2009 Arab Imperialism And Arab SupremacismAuthor: C. Read Arab Imperialism is designed for an Arab state to run the world. Unlike others who have tried to take over the world in the past, there is no timetable. Arab Supremacism mandates that those who follow Islam are right and everyone who does not practice this religion is their enemy. Arab Supremacism is helped along by the quest for the oil in the Middle Eastern countries. Arab Imperialism got its start when the west began to be more dependent on their oil. Since the...

Fundamentalism of the Left is no less dreadful than fundamentalism of the Right. Both are taken much by, what Fredric Jameson calls in another context, “the buzzing confusion of immediacy.” This not only makes them see the world from a very narrow standpoint but also leads them to believe that their narrow standpoint is actually a universal truth. In that respect both fundamentalisms follow closely in the footsteps of colonialism. Ruling over a people, making statements about them, refusing to hear their side of the story, denying them the power of narration and self-definition: that is what old colonialism was...