The Contrarian Progressive
I know what I know. Somehow, what I see is different from what other people see.
26 April 2015
Case 1 for Oh Dearism: ISIS and Izzat al- Douri
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If Adam Curtis' expose was too abstract, let me give you two concrete examples involving this humble soapbox. ISIS and Izzat al-Douri ...
21 April 2015
How Not to Inform: Oh Dear!
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Adam Curtis is a British documentary maker. At the end of 2014, he produced an 11 minute segment for the British humorist and commentator...
19 April 2015
Why Is No One Using the Kurds to Defeat ISIS?
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(This is the second part of this post ) A commentator recently asked the same question : "the Kurds have an army, and they’re willin...
05 April 2015
Discrimination and Backlash: Two Different Cases
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When I wrote recently that "women are the only minority on the planet that are universally discriminated against without any serious r...
31 March 2015
Dubious Strategies to Stop ISIS
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Possibly due my morbid fascination with ISIS, my friends ask me with some regularity why no one is doing anything to stop this ugly band of ...
10 March 2015
UN Women: Men Know Better
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The original idea behind UN Women was to create an agency that would promote Gender Equality. If UNDP is United Nations Development Progr...
03 March 2015
ISIS, Intelligence Agencies, Missing Women and Jihadi John
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I have been writing about how ISIS was an artificial monster which was created for the specific task of establishing a Sunni state out of t...
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