August 09, 2003 | 10 Jumada al-Akhir 1424 Hijriah
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The ClipboardJim Crow in Cyberspace, Part X
The Florida vote count vaudeville has been used as cover to monkey with voting systems in several states -- all under the grinning disguise of "reform." Leading the charge: our Reformer-in-Chief, George W. Bush, who last year signed the something...
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The ClipboardJim Crow in Cyberspace, Part IX
Our president, to ensure that we understood clearly he had no intention whatsoever of heeding his panel's findings and recommendations, put two men in charge of the Bi-BURP for whom he has the fondest disregard: Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford....
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veiled4allahChinese gleams of Muslim light
One of the mysteries that continues to puzzle historians is why, at the height of its global power and influence in the 1400s, China chose to turn inwards and away from the rest of the world. Nicholas Kristof provides a...
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The ClipboardOn Terrorism, Methodism, Saudi 'Wahhabism' and the Censored 9-11 Report
It is, in fact, difficult to imagine that the government of a U.S. client state, with a history of close cooperation with U.S. foreign policy (in the joint anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, for example), and with a...
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veiled4allahMuslim voices 8/2 to 8/9
Annie shares a wonderful story with an important reminder and lesson. Sadia Salam is back, with a post about Cubism. Abdullah posts about the fortunes (and misfortunes) of a satirical Syrian newspaper. Adnan posts about a hiphop-Latin-Arabic flavored band. Aizuddin...
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The ClipboardArms dealer in talks with US officials about Iran
Pentagon hard-liners pressing for change of government in Iran have held secret, unauthorised meetings in Paris with an arms dealer who was a main figure in the Iran-Contra scandal. Administration officials said at least two Pentagon officials working for the...
