Dabashi: “Of Banality and Burden”

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Professor Hamid Dabashi, who teaches Iranian studies at Columbia published his thoughts on Ahmadinejad’s visit and Bollinger’s controversial remarks:
Let’s, then, be clear at the beginning, Mr. President you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator . . . . I am only a professor, who is also a university president, and […]

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Mearsheimer, Foxman on Israel Lobby and Iran War

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John Mearsheimer, coauthor of the influential book The Israel Lobby; and Abraham Foxman, chairman of the Anti Defamation League appeared on the Jim Lehrer Newshour to debate the merits of the argument presented in The Israel Lobby, which claims that the lobby is pushing the US to war with Iran.
Mearsheimer states:

If you look around the […]

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