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The Believer - Orientalist Party Music
Interesting article on Arab musicians in Brooklyn after WWII.
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Provocative Behavior: Pertinent Concerns Over the Burning of Korans
"One wonders if the actual burning and slaughtering of actual human beings in the Muslim world -- covertly and overtly, in country after country, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year -- by the highest, most honored, respected and powerful worthies of American society might, just possibly, incite more violence and ill will against us than the burning of a few books by a marginal, powerless goober down in Florida."
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This is what happens if 'we' (US and NATO forces) stay in Afghanistan. End the occupation now.
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How illegal immigrants are helping Social Security
"Stephen C. Goss, the chief actuary of the Social Security Administration and someone who enjoys bipartisan support for his straightforwardness, said that by 2007, the Social Security trust fund had received a net benefit of somewhere between $120 billion and $240 billion from unauthorized immigrants."
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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