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September 10, 2006 12:56 AM Subscribe
Project Syndicate the discourse outside the U.S. is very different than the one taking place inside where censorship is the order of the day.
This post was deleted for the following reason: meh, big claims coming from a lukewarm op-ed. OR IS IT CENSORSHIP?!
Are you joking? Many if not most of the contributors are either American or working at an American think tank, university or publication. A lot of them are former US government officials. George Soros funds it.
They cover economics, the environment, arts, books, philosophy and religion. The project is not a response to US anything, and it certainly is not focused on the Middle East, Lebanon, Israel or Palestine. And if you meant to post that op/ed by Saad Ibrahim (who teaches at the American University in Cairo), well, I see more scathing discourse about Bush on CNN. Here's another one of his pieces.
Whatever one thinks of American military intervention, one must concede that it has altered the region’s dynamics. Domestic opposition forces, while distancing themselves from the US, have been markedly emboldened in Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere. We are all watching for signs of opening among our neighbors.
I know that stirrings of democracy have been crushed before: in Budapest in 1956, Prague in 1968, and in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Yet something about the last few months feels new and irreversible. Too many people in too many places are defying their oppressors and taking risks for freedom. To a long-time activist, today’s climate feels like spring.
posted by loquax at 1:37 AM on September 10, 2006
They cover economics, the environment, arts, books, philosophy and religion. The project is not a response to US anything, and it certainly is not focused on the Middle East, Lebanon, Israel or Palestine. And if you meant to post that op/ed by Saad Ibrahim (who teaches at the American University in Cairo), well, I see more scathing discourse about Bush on CNN. Here's another one of his pieces.
Whatever one thinks of American military intervention, one must concede that it has altered the region’s dynamics. Domestic opposition forces, while distancing themselves from the US, have been markedly emboldened in Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere. We are all watching for signs of opening among our neighbors.
I know that stirrings of democracy have been crushed before: in Budapest in 1956, Prague in 1968, and in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Yet something about the last few months feels new and irreversible. Too many people in too many places are defying their oppressors and taking risks for freedom. To a long-time activist, today’s climate feels like spring.
posted by loquax at 1:37 AM on September 10, 2006
This New Middle East will never fly, because of its acronym. Everybody knows the NME is the New Music Express. They've got to think of some other name.
I also couldn't quite get the censorship connection...
posted by flapjax at midnite at 3:39 AM on September 10, 2006
I also couldn't quite get the censorship connection...
posted by flapjax at midnite at 3:39 AM on September 10, 2006
As much as I agree with the sentiment, this is a terrible FPP.
posted by Spacelegoman at 3:50 AM on September 10, 2006
posted by Spacelegoman at 3:50 AM on September 10, 2006
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