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from Angelus News
Roman Catholic News Publisher in Los Angeles, California
Could the reunion between Catholics and Orthodox be closer than we thought?
In light of a recent declaration from Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople that reunion between Eastern Orthodoxy and the Catholic Church is now “inevitable,” it’s worth a brief trip down memory lane regarding recent attempts to end Christianity’s longest-running schism.
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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
Afghanistan Papers an eerie reminder of Vietnam
Noam Chomsky recently celebrated his 91st birthday. As an homage to Noam, I spent the day with one of his less-known books, The Backroom Boys (1973). The book is made up of two spectacular essays, the first a close reading of the Pentagon Papers. To read this book alongside the trove of documents released by the US government as part of its own internal study on the ongoing US war on Afghanistan is telling. Both the Pentagon Papers on Vietnam and the recent Washington Post disclosures on Afghanistan show that the US government lied to its citizenry about a war that could never be won. If you substitute the word “Afghanistan” for the word “Vietnam,” you could read Chomsky’s essays from 1973 and imagine that they were written today.
US firms power rise in global arms sales
New data from SIPRI showed that sales of arms and military services by the top 100 firms went up by 47% since 2002
Noam Chomsky recently celebrated his 91st birthday. As an homage to Noam, I spent the day with one of his less-known books, The Backroom Boys (1973). The book is made up of two spectacular essays, the first a close reading of the Pentagon Papers. To read this book alongside the trove of documents released by the US government as part of its own internal study on the ongoing US war on Afghanistan is telling. Both the Pentagon Papers on Vietnam and the recent Washington Post disclosures on Afghanistan show that the US government lied to its citizenry about a war that could never be won. If you substitute the word “Afghanistan” for the word “Vietnam,” you could read Chomsky’s essays from 1973 and imagine that they were written today.
New data from SIPRI showed that sales of arms and military services by the top 100 firms went up by 47% since 2002
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from The Federalist
RIGHT BIAS, HIGH, online magazine
The legendary thinker rebelled against the factory-like machinery of state-run public education. May he rest in peace, and may his work live on.
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from Hoover Institution
Nonprofit Organization in Stanford, California
The Islamic political philosopher Alfarabi (872-950), one of the notable transmitters of ancient Greek classical texts from the Eastern Mediterranean through the Maghreb to Spain’s al-Andalus and on into Western Europe, produced in his major work the idea of “The Virtuous City,” an ideal form of governance I occasionally heard mentioned by my Arab colleagues when I served at the United Nations in the 1990’s. Later, when assigned to teach a university course unit on Alfarabi, it seemed clear to me that his aim was to provide Plato’s Republic as a model polity that would accommodate the example of the seventh century caliphates that succeeded the death of the Prophet as well as the suras of the Koran in one vast religio-political unity that would stand in contrast to the dualistic, Trinitarian ways of the West. In this, the Caliph would hover over all authoritatively like Plato’s Philosopher-King. This theocratic model collided with history and politics in 1924 when the collapse of the Ottoman Empire brought down with it the collapse of the Caliphate. In 1914, the Ottoman Caliph (Sheikh-ul-Islam) had proclaimed a Jihad by all Muslims to join Kaiser Wilhelm’s Imperial Germany in a holy world war against Britain, France, and Russia. When the war was lost, the Caliphate was lost with it; desperate efforts by Egypt, the Saudis, and from the sidelines Muslim India, to select and install a new Caliphate failed. Since then, ruling out one or two ridiculous imposters, Islam has been without a legitimate Caliphate.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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