FEATURED ADDITIONS
Don′t Just Do Something, Talk - Slavoj Zizek / London Review of Books (10/15)
The Audacity of Rhetoric - Slavoj Zizek / In These Times (9/6)
The Ambiguous Legacy of ’68 - Slavoj Zizek / In These Times (6/28)
Tibet: Dream and Reality - Slavoj Zizek / Le Monde diplomatique (6/1)
The War Everyone Forgot - Noam Chomsky / Khaleej Times (4/14)
How to Read Lacan (entire book) - Slavoj Zizek / Lacan dot com (4/8)
The Three Trillion Dollar War
- Joseph E. Stiglitz / Project Syndicate (3/22)
READ OR REREAD
Obama's Victory - Fear and Hope
Immanuel Wallerstein
Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University
November 18, 2008
"The whole of the United States and indeed the whole world was watching, and almost all of it was cheering, the election of Barack Obama as the next president of the United States. Although, during the electoral campaign, everyone tried to play down the centrality of the racial issue, on Nov. 4 it seemed that no one could talk of anything else. There are three central questions about what most commentators are calling this "historic event": How important is it? What explains the victory? What is likely to happen now?" [read more...]
MOST RECENT ADDITIONS (click author's name for books)
Depression Economics Returns - Paul Krugman / New York Times (11/14)
Through the Glasses Darkly - Slavoj Zizek / In These Times (11/12)
Haniyeh: Hamas Willing to Accept Palestinian State With 1967 Borders - Haas / Haaretz (11/10)
Understanding the Beijing Consensus
- Alain Gresh / Le Monde diplomatique (11/7)
Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations (English /Arabic) - PCHR(11/6)
Dramatic Consequences in Iraq? - Immanuel Wallerstein / FBC, Binghamton University (11/2)
Arabs Out of Step - Azmi Bishara / Al-Ahram Weekly (10/26)
Exposing the Un-Democratic Face of Capitalism - Noam Chomsky / Counterpunch (10/24)
A Tale of Two Parliaments - Amira Hass / Le Monde diplomatique (10/20)
The Supposed New Cold War - Azmi Bishara / Al-Ahram Weekly (10/19)
The Depression: A Long-Term View - Immanuel Wallerstein / FBC, Binghamton University (10/18)
Krugman Wins Economics Nobel / The New York Times (10/13)
'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System' - Noam Chomsky / Spiegel (10/13)
Zero-Sum Thinking Still - Azmi Bishara / Al-Ahram Weekly (10/12)
The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama - Frank Rich / The New York Times (10/12)
Jon Stewart Slams Sarah Palin Sideshow - John Stewart / The Daily Show - The Nation (10/11)
Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations (English /Arabic) - PCHR (10/10)
Modern-Day American Imperialism: Middle East and Beyond - Chomsky / Boston Univ. (10/8)
Obsession with Islam - Adam Shatz / London Review of Books (10/7)
Palestinians: Divided We Fall - Amira Hass / Le Monde diplomatique (10/4)
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Books of Interest
Barradori / Habermas / Derrida - Philosophy in a Time of Terror
Jean Baudrillard - The Spirit of Terrorism
Noam Chomsky - Middle East Illusions
Noam Chomsky - Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror (DVD)
Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent (DVD)
N. Finkelstein - Image
and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Heinz Halm - Shi'a Islam: From Religion to Revolution
Marshall Hodgson - The Venture of Islam
Albert Hourani - History
of the Arab World
Paul Krugman - The Great Unraveling
Fawzi Mansour - The Arab World
Roy Mottahedeh - An Introduction to Shi'i Islam
Sheldon Rampton/John Stauber - Weapons of Mass Deception
Richards / Waterbury - A Political Economy of the Middle East
Edward Said - Covering Islam
Edward Said / Christopher Hitchens - Blaming the Victims
Jalal Toufic - Over-Sensitivity (Sun & Moon Classics, No 119)
Jalal Toufic / David / Sadek - Tamass 1
United Nations - Arab Human Development Report 2002
United Nations - Arab Human Development Report 2003
Paul Virilio - Ground Zero
Immanuel Wallerstein - The Decline of American Power
Slavoj Zizek - Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle
Slavoj Zizek - Welcome to the Desert of the Real
Amazon.com - Amazon.com Home Page all other purchases (you can replace the Amazon link in your browser favorites with this one to support MidEastdilemma.com)
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