Monday, December 1, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Z-Word: The Mumbai Massacres And Imperialist States of Mind - 'The other day, just after the terrorist attack in Mumbai got underway, I thought about writing a very brief post along the lines of "How long will we have to wait before the first op-ed piece that tries to pin at least some of the ultimate blame for this on Israel?". The answer turns out to be "Only a couple of days". Writing - where else? - in the Comment is Free section of The Guardian William Dalrymple pins the prime blame for the Mumbai atrocities not on those who carried them out but on the US, the UK, India, and, of course, Israel...'
