Global Intifada

“In the United States war-related expenditures have constituted the dominant sector of the federal budget throughout our history. Omitting the years of the Second World War and the post-war period, where the record is so well known, a tabulation of federal expenditures by decade, from 1800 to 1939, for army, navy, veteran’s compensations and pensions, […]

MSA National has recently announced the results of this year’s elections. The purpose of this article is to discuss several problems in the election process that have arisen year after year. For the record, I e-mailed the Election Committee with my concerns and a month has gone by and I have still not received a […]

They are the solution to sectarianism within the Muslim community.
Their positions are balanced - between the extremism of some of the Sufis and the Salafis. They don’t compromise on the deen and engage in apologetics or promote aberrant positions like some of the Islamists. (HT, Ikhwan, Jamat e Islami, Tanzeem). They are more flexible than […]

“A revolution is likely to occur only when a society simultaneously experiences three kinds of difficulties:

A state financial crisis, brought on by a growing imbalance between the revenues a government can securely raise and the obligations and tasks it faces.
Severe elite divisions, including both alienation from the state and intra-elite conflicts, brought on by […]

History of American Interventions from 1790 until Today
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Here’s a rough draft of something I’ve been working on. Its incomplete and I have to go back and insert further evidence and proper citation and what not.
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Introduction: Three Weak Theories of American State Action
There are three conventional methodologies of attempting to understand how America behaves as a state: (1) to examine and take […]

Here are the relevant excerpts:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups.
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Although President Bush has disavowed targeting suspects based on their race or ethnicity, the new […]

. . . to a woman named “Revolution”

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress”
- Frederick Douglas -
“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.” 
– Che Guevara -
“I die with a clear conscience. I die fighting . . . not like a […]

New link to the blogroll. One of the best blogs that reveals the hegemonic discourse on Islam:
kashmiri-nomad.blogspot.com/
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