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How do Conservatives (& Liberals) think?

http://georgelakoff.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff

The Financial Crisis

The Road to 9/11 2nd list

The Road To 9/11 & Aftermath - the past, present, and future

Juan Cole - Engaging the Muslim World - http://books.google.ca/books?id=_IDgQwAACAAJ&dq=juan+cole+en­gaging+the+muslim+world&hl=en&ei=zaOPTYWBJMyltwey462ICQ&sa=X­&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA .....Alex de Waal - Islamism & Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa - http://books.google.ca/books?id=WYLSKQa9tHEC&printsec=frontc­over&dq=Islamism+and+Its+Enemies+in+the+Horn+of+Africa&hl=en­&ei=a7tqTPnNLs21nAffm-nnAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&res­num=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false -
Jason Burke - Al Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam http://books.google.ca/books?id=-_FJFFrit8AC&printsec=frontc­over&dq=jason+burke&hl=en&ei=whJOTKjcCcG88gaOs72HDA&sa=X&oi=­book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f­=false =Jason Burke - On The Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World http://books.google.ca/books?id=tRFeX-HC6_IC&printsec=frontc­over&dq=jason+burke&hl=en&ei=whJOTKjcCcG88gaOs72HDA&sa=X&oi=­book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f­=false - Lawrence Wright - The Looming Tower http://books.google.ca/books?id=RNkj-mO-Nt8C&printsec=frontc­over&dq=lawrence+wright&hl=en&ei=UhNOTPabJMT38Abw87WVDA&sa=X­&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage­&q&f=false - Steve Coll - Ghost Wars: the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden http://books.google.ca/books?id=Dc4kRClTViIC&printsec=frontc­over&dq=ghost+wars&hl=en&ei=ahNOTLbXEYG88gbo3IGaDA&sa=X&oi=b­ook_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=­false - Ahmed Rashid http://www.ahmedrashid.com/ (no preview for "Descent Into Chaos" on google books yet)..........**VIDEO**: Lawrence Wright and Alex Gibney: http://vimeo.com/14784070 "My Trip to Al Qaeda"........ Lawrence Wright - http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/32814481 "GRITtv: Mismatched Narratives on the War".............Eugene Rogan "The Arabs" - http://www.amazon.com/Arabs-History-Eugene-Rogan/dp/04650710­07/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1 ................"A History of the Modern Middle East - http://books.google.ca/books?id=4f57d65kWlQC&printsec=frontc­over&dq=william+cleveland&hl=en&ei=SuixTOiJNYqmnQeavamFBg&sa­=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepa­ge&q&f=false ........... Geoffrey Wawro "Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East".. http://www.amazon.com/Quicksand-Americas-Pursuit-Power-Middl­e/dp/1594202419 *** cut and paste is your friend ***

Ourororor's Group

Darfur//Sudan, Congo, Rwanda, & other African issues

Alex de Waal's site here: http://blogs.ssrc.org/sudan/
There's a vast amt of info (almost too much)
*Other lectures by de Waal (over an hour long):

http://fora.tv/2009/03/10/Military_Power_Does_it_Work

The Crisis In Darfur - http://www.viddler.com/explore/frontlineclub/videos/36/


RE Prof. Mamdani: What he's saying is troubling & highly controversial, but if you check out de Waal's blog, you'll find a section dedicated to "Saviours & Survivors", where there are criticisms along with Mamdani's responses to them.
This is VERY good, I'd listen to it before the other Mamdani links:
http://www.grittv.org/2009/04/08/mahmood-mamdani-saviors-and­-survivors/

ALSO: RE "Town Hall Meeting for Darfur: Accountable to Humanity: Justice in Darfur" -- skip ahead ten minutes, the introduction's a long one.

Book 1: Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism - Sherene H. Razack (about Canada's role in Somalia, but this is relevant to Americans as well). "Blackhawk Down" it isn't. The preview doesn't include one of my favourite chapters about authoritarianism and the banality of evil *but Amazon.com's preview does*.

http://books.google.ca/books?id=nfj8SN649zEC&dq=Dark+Threats­+and+White+Knights+-+Sherene+H.+Razack&printsec=frontcover&s­ource=bn&hl=en&ei=I9RLTLP9KoGB8gbavdAx&sa=X&oi=book_result&c­t=result&resnum=4&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Dark%20Threats­%20and%20White%20Knights%20-%20Sherene%20H.%20Razack&f=false

Book 2 "Famine crimes: politics & the disaster relief industry in Africa" by Alex de Waal
http://books.google.ca/books?id=UV3XROXhn5oC&printsec=frontc­over&dq=famine+crimes+de+waal&hl=en&ei=hNVLTOTGCcL98Aaehawy&­sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=one­page&q&f=false

& cut & paste is your friend.

Neoliberalism