1/ The US is known as a modern country with a huge medical system, but now it seems to be the worst hit by the coronavirus crisis (1.4m cases and 80,500 deaths). Are the problems rooted in neoliberalism or do all problems just come from Trump? The problems are rooted in neoliberalism. Since 19...
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US base Ayn al-Asad in Kurdistan, target of Iraq resistance bombs in December 2019. 
By
*procrastinating on pulling out troops and mercenaries from Afghanistan and Iraq,
*plopping them down unbidden in Syria (oil, you know),
*encouraging Israel to bomb Syrians and their anti-IS allies, Iran and Russia, and
*encouraging Turkey to invade Syria to fight Kurds (and Syrian and Russian troops),
the US has created a nightmare far worse than the Taliban, Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.
Oh, for those peaceful 1990s! Saddam is already a footnote and the other two have been eclipsed in the muslim world by the Islamic State, which miraculously expanded over the Levant, and is still hanging on there by a thread. Kept that way by US-Israel.
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Immigration is like a tornado. It begins far away and grows till it touches down, disordering lives and rearranging hopes, depositing the detritus of new identities, writes Ziauddin Sardar in Balti Britain: A provocative journey through Asian Britain (2008). Learning to cope with multiple selves became the quest of Sardar’s adult life.
Asian Britons are all the direct product of the British empire, which steamrolled around the world, razing whatever got in its way, leaving a lot of detritus, creating new identities (for better or worse) for hundreds of millions, with a legacy that keeps giving today (for better or worse).
As a Muslim Canadian, I enjoyed Sardar’s dissection of the British Muslim experience, which has some parallels with US-Canada, but a big difference.
Plato maxim: in all things natural and human, the origin is the most excellent.
Plato maxim: in all things natural and human, the origin is the most excellent.
Plato maxim: in all things natural and human, the origin is the most excellent.
Plato maxim: in all things natural and human, the origin is the most excellent.
