Rally To The Banner Of The Global Tribunate. My latest over at ImportantCool. Part 1 of 2 Progressive Unity and Global Hyper-Democracy. In this piece Austin presents the first half of his manifesto, laying out the case for a powerful UN with a military, whose decision-making apparatus is centered on a new kind of hyperdemocratic parliament. I wish there was a treaty we could sign,.

February 24, 2011 in Uncategorized. What were once unthinkable uprisings against entrenched regimes are beginning to force through change. But Diaspora in Wales are worried about just what will come next. The country has seen up to 500 people killed in the last few days a.

El voto islamista se divide en las presidenciales egipcias y los salafistas quedan fuera. Hoy se cerraba el último día de la campaña electoral que decidirá los próximos 23 y 24 de mayo los dos candidatos presidenciales que pasen a la segunda vuelta. El voto islamista ha cambiado de rumbo en varias ocasiones.

Another day, another extremely embarrassing diplomatic cable. The charming quote used for the title of this post reportedly came from the mouth of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, quoted in cable released by Al Akhbar in its latest batch. While I was still in Beirut I spent a lot of time painstakingly collating the Lebanon-related US cables released by Wikileaks on my blog. The cable details a meeting immediately after the 200.

The abandoned Rashid Karami International Fair in Tripoli, Lebanon. The neglect and decline seen here at the renamed Rashid Karami International Fair mirrors that of Tripoli. Once the seat of Crusader, Mamluke and Ottoman provinces and a major port serving Syria.

Writer with a nasty food habit. I love to tell stories about how our food gets to our plates. The food system is full of sometimes arbitrary, sometimes nonsensical, almost always invisible forces that affect our food choices and change what ends up on our tables and in our bodies. These are the stories I like to tell. Eat the elderly, and other revolutionary ideas in meat.