Libya | Libya
Sep.13.2012
New America Media, Commentary, Andrew Lam, Posted: Sep 13, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO--In 2010 Time Magazine’s prestigious Person of the Year title went to two individuals. While its readers picked Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, Time’s editors picked Mark...
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Sep.13.2012
We wake up this morning to more dreadful news. Riots and attacks in Libya, Yeman, Egypt. Good people dead. Intolerance and ignorance exploding everywhere.
I am prone, as I have said before, to the droops. The world gets me down. Some days more than others, and these...
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Oct.26.2011
It’s hard to believe the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon is just over a month old. Long expected by astrologers, long awaited by progressives and long dreaded by the One Per Cent, the movement hit the ground running.
It expresses the world moment so precisely that it seems to...
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Oct.22.2011
Here is a link to a piece I wrote for Reuters that was published the day Gaddafi was killed. The article gives suggestions on the best means by which to rebuild Libya. The principles could be applied elsewhere too.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/20/idUS125332294720111020
Here...
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Aug.30.2011
It was only a matter of time before Libya found a totem. The psychological semantics are beautifully laid out. A 19-year-old girl. Attractive. Murderer? Victim? The shadow-play is potent.
Libyan’s leader Muammar Gaddafi always had a female army alongside the traditional male one. So, what sets...
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Jul.07.2011
A rose by any other name is still a rose. The Shakespearean proclamation seems intuitive, unless the subject is war and the speaker is the President. When the President declares that sending the military to a foreign country to engage an enemy through force no longer constitutes a hostile act we...
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May.20.2011
The world cried for armed intervention in Libya for a month. The United Nations, the Arab League, the Libyan rebels themselves demanded we come in. So we did. Led by American firepower, British resolve, and—I can’t believe I’m writing this—the purifying moral outrage of the French,...
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May.03.2011
Here is the link to the radio interview I did with Bob Salter of WFAN (New York).
We discuss how federalism can address a host of international and domestic issues.
https://www.yousendit.com/dl?phi_action=app/orchestrateDownload&rurl=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.yousendit.com%...
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May.02.2011
We cannot say it was only a matter of time. We can say it is good timing. Barack Obama makes an announcement about the US killing Osama bin Laden, but there is not a word from him about NATO forces murdering the Libyan leader’s youngest son and grandchildren even as there were rumours that...
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Apr.10.2011
The recent Libya crisis has brought tremendous dramatic changes in Obama’s new geopolitical landscape. Though president Obama is an enthusiastic advocate of Washington’s superpower, but he is struggling hard to stabilize his domestic policy in order to restore his lost popularity for a second term...
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