for your amusement

[jan carowan]

Instead of hanging on the words of The Nation Columnists, we may  need to 
study some book length studies.

May I recommend as introductions:

Eqbal Ahmad, Confronting Empire. Interviews with David Barsamian.

  Boston: South End Press, 2000.
Aijaz Ahmad, Lineages of the Present: Ideology and Politics in South
Asia. London: Verso, 2000
Fred Halliday, Islam and the Myth of Confrontation. London: IB Tauris,
1995

these are very well informed analyses and histories which provide essential 
background. Eqbal Ahmad's remarkable interview answers cover all from Osama 
Bin Laden to Benazir Bhutto to Unocal.

don't worry, i am unsubbing.

xxxx

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