Archive for December, 2009

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  My name is Eamon Kircher-Allen. I write, podcast and photograph Africa and the Middle East (and sometimes, NYC, San Francisco and music -- my other favorite subjects).

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  • @SargonSez @lwsamson well put. 1 day ago
  • @lwsamson @eamon_ka Thanks. I had a feeling that even if leverage was over-emphasized as a cause of the crisis, it's still a factor. 1 day ago
  • Interested in your thoughts on this @sargonsez @lwsamson, anyone else. "How We Got the Crash Wrong"- The Atlantic goo.gl/UYmCY 1 day ago
  • @QulshTM thanks for posting. do u mean that reagan wd also be a war criminal in a just court? (I tend to agree, as u might guess) 2 days ago
  • Israel PM: illegal African immigrants threaten identity of Jewish state | World news | The Guardian - goo.gl/Yk0f6 2 days ago

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  • Three Cups of BS - By Alanna Shaikh | Foreign Policy
  • ‘Three Cups of Tea,’ Spilled - NYTimes.com
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  • Iraqi refugees haunted by horrors they left behind | Reuters
  • The flotilla crisis seen from Cairo - Blog - The Arabist

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  "Although I read a variety of newspapers from around the country, newspapers are only a poor shadow of reality; their information is important to a freedom fighter not because it reveals the truth, but because it discloses the biases and perceptions of both those who produce the paper and those who read it." - Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom.

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  • 7 songs that rocked Kenya and Tanzania last year
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  • It's here! From Cairo to Wall Street: Voices from the Global Spring
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