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The Party Never Ends Sherief: "I'm intrigued by the fact that this discussion is in the "Thought" section..." Yes, its vintage aside, it might be more suitably positioned under Biology without Biopolitics? , the thread you started recently, only that it too is in the "Thought" section :-)...

The Wolf Is Still At The Door And isn't that the problem here: the US continued failure to enter dialogue despite Iran's offer? US, Iran standoff grows tenser Despite rare letter, Washington sees no reason to engage Tehran as the UN considers action. As un-noticed others scramble to join or...

Your patronising innocence and strawman construction here is indeed charming. Drug culture [the capitalist world's largest industry] , both the official pharmaceutical one and the dissident narcissistic disavowing one - is capitalism at its destructive purest. Supermarkets and advertising not...

I'm sure that the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would love to embrace Jenkins' shallow mis-appropriation of nuclear weapons as "status symbols" ... having already also seemingly forgotten the decades of the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the whole underlying geopolitical "logic"...

Oh gee, I'm a little temporally challenged in mis-contributing to this till-now un-seen thread, so please forgive my hangover for being near-on two years past my potty sell-by-date ... But as someone who's been nicotine-addicted for longer than the age I was when I first started, and having...

President of Iran's Letter To President Bush It appears that Le Monde are first in the letter publishing department ... Mr George Bush, President of the United States of America For sometime now I have been thinking, how one can justify the undeniable contradictions that exist in the...

Pukrag, don't bother telling us you've derealised the distinction between sneering cynicism and innocent sarcasm ...

As opposed to the merits of [insert your fave psych here]?? :) From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby first confronts its twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to forces of outrageous violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents, and their...

2stepfan: Can't believe how Jack Straw got stabbed in the back after covering for him throughout Iraq. Matt b: his less than hawk like stance over iran has been touched on David Clarke: For the sake of clarity, let me be clear that I don’t think George Bush called up Tony Blair and instructed...

Discovering Diplomacy [all of a sudden] Iranian President Writes Letter to Bush From New York Times [via Mazi/All Details Later] Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written a letter to President Bush with suggestions on how to resolve current international tensions, Iranian...

Lobby Iranian Embassies Yes, its extremely disturbing, and evidence of the sheer paranoia that has overtaken the Iranian regime in response to the US/Israel's plans to invade the country. And, tragically, it's going to get worse, with Iran now treating intellectuals, artists and dissidents much...

For Reasons Of State "I would really appreciate some urgent help in these local elections, Georgy. What can you do?" "Let's invade Iran!"

Who gave the above sentence a five-star rating? How dare they! Can we - again - assume you mean this thread, now that you've so gushingly pointed out the distinction? In which case, the mysterious rating clearly followed such illuminating and ecstatic posts as, in reverse order...

Undocumented Immigrants as "Prime Movers" 12 million undocumented Americans rejecting the neo-cons' terms of their existence ["either you're a criminal-on-the-run or we deport you"], by removing their services ... with up to 12 million of these American workers now politicised and increasingly...

Remarks With Greek Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis While Meeting Secretary Condoleezza Rice SECRETARY RICE: Good afternoon. I would like to welcome the Greek Foreign Minister. We were just saying that we've already met a couple of times since I have been Secretary of State. We had, of...

Well, while I agree with your general point, I don't think that this is necessarily that straight-forward. Really, both race and sexual orientation are fundamentally cultural constructions eg. is there a gene or set of genes for heterosexuality, for bisexuality, for asexuality? Such questions...

Excellent post, Sherief. Just some quick, related points. The wager of Marx is that there is but one fundamental antagonism ("class struggle") which overdetermines all others [race, ethnicity, gender constructions, etc] and which is as such the "concrete universal" of the entire field. The term...

Given that it was the emergence of the state itself which not only constructed such notions as "freedom" and "democracy", but also guaranteed [if however ostensibly] those same notions, its interesting the way these wannabe neo-cons are attempting to advance a contrary agenda [the state as...

Outcry, yes; its just that such news did not suddenly emerge a couple of days ago, but precisely a few years ago. Take, for instance, this report - that was among many others -from 23rd April, 2004: US admits it will still control Iraq after transfer : The US has made clear that the transfer...

Cheers, Satanmcnuggat, Corneilius. As always, among the better sources of investigative reportage and analytical commentary on Iran are ZNET and Tom Feeley's Informationclearinghouse ... I'm assuming Droid was just jesting facetiously, as the links he supplies are entirely related to...