http://www.hurryupharry.org Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:19:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Barack Obama has begun his much-anticipated foreign tour with a visit to Afghanistan. He's also expected to visit Iraq, Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Germany, France and the UK. Details of his agenda apparently are being kept obscure for understandable security reasons. I suppose he won't have much opportunity to ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/07/19/obama-begins-foreign-tour/ Benny Morris, the famed Israeli historian, argues in the New York Times that Israel will 'almost surely' attack Iran's nuclear facilities in the next four to seven months. His scenario of the possible consequences is terrifying. Registration is required, so here below is the whole article. It's grim reading: ISRAEL will ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/07/19/benny-morris-why-israel-will-bomb-iran/ According to the BBC's Nicholas Witchell in a series of interviews in Baghdad called Voices from Inside Iraq. Watch them all. Especially the ones from the coffee shop and the female MP footage. In other Iraq news, the US administration are now talking about troop withdrawals. In fact, the differences on ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/07/19/democracy-is-a-success-in-iraq/ Over at Lenin's Tomb, Richard Seymour is receiving kudos for finally graduating with a BA in Politics, Philosophy and History-- "first class with honours," he proudly notes. (How old is he now? 35? 40?) But wait-- shouldn't a committed revolutionary like him disdain such bourgeois honors? And surely a true revolutionary ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/07/18/seymour-graduates/ I haven't been following the recent political crisis in Turkey, but I think this op-ed piece by Aliza Marcus and Andrew Apostolou (who has been one of our readers) makes at lot of sense. They write that Turkey's Constitutional Court, backed by the country's strongly secular military leaders, is preparing to ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/07/18/turkish-democracy-and-the-akp/ Remember back during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, when George Galloway proclaimed to loud cheers at a "Stop the War" demonstration: “I am here to glorify the resistance, Hezbollah. I am here to glorify the leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.” The same Hezbollah and Hassan Nasrallah which organized a welcoming celebration for the freed ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/07/18/dont-let-them-forget/   There's a new feature in the ARTS section called "Junkbox Jury". The idea is very simple. I've found some interesting-looking CDs rummaging around in those clearance bins outside record shops and in Cash Converters by bands I've never heard of. The big question is how they came to be there and did ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/07/18/introducing-junkbox-jury/ The BBC reports: The British government is to fund a board of Islamic theologians in an attempt to sideline violent extremists. The move will see Oxford and Cambridge Universities host a group of scholars who will lead debate on key issues such as women and loyalty to the UK. The plans have angered ... http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/07/18/oxbridge-islam/ I'm not sure about the new direction Pickled Politics has taken, of late. This article is better. http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/07/18/free-muslim-women/ Remember that great reworking of "This Land" during the last US Presidential electino? Well, here's the one for Election 2008 Send a JibJab Sendables® eCard Today! Hat tip: Nick Cohen http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/07/18/the-times-they-are-a-changing/