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Genius or Suicide
Judith Butler
London Review of Books
"Notoriously, he claimed he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and still win the election. Immunity from the law has become the very definition of power, and so the loss of immunity would be his demise. His belief that only those who can escape the law survive is demonstrated by his appeal to China to investigate the Bidens – a rhetorical repetition of the crime of which he is accused in relation to Ukraine. And yet, although Trump’s ostensible power is displayed by a willingness to act despite and against the law, the law is now belatedly rearing its head, asking him to turn over tapes and documents, seeking to hold him accountable. In refusing to acknowledge the power that the law holds over him, he is setting himself up as a target of the chant he started: ‘Lock him up!’" [...read more ]
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Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent (DVD)
N. Finkelstein - Image
and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Marshall Hodgson - The Venture of Islam
Albert Hourani - History
of the Arab World
Paul Krugman - The Great Unraveling
Fawzi Mansour - The Arab World
Roy Mottahedeh - An Introduction to Shi'i Islam
Sheldon Rampton/John Stauber - Weapons of Mass Deception
Richards / Waterbury - A Political Economy of the Middle East
Edward Said - Covering Islam
Edward Said / Christopher Hitchens - Blaming the Victims
Jalal Toufic - Over-Sensitivity (Sun & Moon Classics, No 119)
Jalal Toufic / David / Sadek - Tamass 1
United Nations - Arab Human Development Report 2002
United Nations - Arab Human Development Report 2003
Paul Virilio - Ground Zero
Immanuel Wallerstein - The Decline of American Power
Slavoj Zizek - Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle
Slavoj Zizek - Welcome to the Desert of the Real
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