Politics

The Christian Brotherhood (ie, The Muslim Brotherhood)

כ״ד בשבט ה׳תשע״א (Saturday 29 January 2011)

Somewhere in the world, in a troubled region, there are riots on the streets and an organization called the Christian Brotherhood is poised to succeed in seizing power as that country’s military dictator eventually flees. The Christian Brotherhood is a potentially frightening organization. Its members have been involved in a lot of political violence over [...]

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Men’s Rights in Israel

י״ז בשבט ה׳תשע״א (Saturday 22 January 2011)

The Men’s Rights movement has reached the Knesset. It’s a little weird to me that the Israel world and the MRA world are now overlapping, but I think Israel has been one of the countries with the most vocal Men’s activism in the world, at least in the form of זכויות הגבר במשפחה (Men’s Family [...]

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What is a Reactionary?

ל׳ בכסלו ה׳תשע״א (Tuesday 7 December 2010)

What is reaction and what does it mean to be a reactionary? In the past five years or so that I’ve considered myself a reactionary, I’ve described myself that way a bunch of times to a bunch of different people, and the responses I’ve got have never been what I expected. Oddly, the progressives and [...]

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Aretae’s Election Roundup

כ״ז במרחשון ה׳תשע״א (Thursday 4 November 2010)

Aretae put together a list of posts from blogs he reads about voting in the US elections. It’s thorough, interesting and awesome. Check it out.

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The Next Israel-Lebanon War

כ״א באלול ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 31 August 2010)

When I wrote recently about the upcoming Israel-Iran War, I predicted that “Israel will provoke a war with Hezballah in 2010 to defeat them and to deplete their arsenal in the context of a conventional war.” Now I see Haaretz is agreeing that Israel might be planning to attack Hezballah preemptively. The article mentions the [...]

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Israel & Lebanon in the United States Empire

י״ח באלול ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 28 August 2010)

The United States arms its client Israel (or Israel is the puppetmaster that controls the United States – it depends whom you ask). The United States also arms a (former) close ally of Israel, Turkey. The United States also arms some of Israel’s neighbors, like Egypt and the Hashemite entity, as a reward for not [...]

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