Harper’s magazine is running an essay, Wishful Thinking: The Aspirations and Failures of the United Nations, by Amanda Chicago Lewis. I guess if your name is Chicago you may be forgiven to be somewhat myopic, and present your country in the best light possible, or at least everyone else in a bad light. Over many…
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Muslim Views Column
I have started writing what would be a regular column for Muslim Views, a newspaper based in Cape Town. The column will deal specifically with global issues that affect Islam and the Muslim world, and muslim-majority countries like Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Malaysia and Indonesia, and, of course, the people of Palestine. I will…
Predictions of US collapse are premature and misdirected
I have been writing about the decline of the USA and related issue for a few years, now, without resorting schadenfreude or dancing on the grave of that country. (See here, here and here) That would be silly. My approach has not been “anti-American”. It has always had to do with at least two things, both of which are…