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Built on Sand

Built on Sand

photographs by Jason Larkin,
July 2010

Egypt’s museums’ grandiose displays reveal and mold the identity of this most ancient of countries.

FROM THE BLOG

Danielle Ofri: Americans by Choice

29 July 2010 - “Somehow, it seems to have been forgotten that every American is or was an immigrant. Most of our grandparents and great-grandparents came here ‘illegally’ because immigrants were never particularly welcomed. But those generations of “Americans by Choice” built up our society and economy in a manner that has come to define America.”

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David Bollier: Wikileaks, the War, and Accountability: Leaked Documents from the Afghanistan War Confirm Some Hard, Dismal Truths

29 July 2010 - “We can now see more clearly that it is not just government that practices deception and censorship to advance its political interests; the commercial press is complicit in its own way, for its own reasons.”

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Erica Wright: On Adultery or Why Merwin is the Right Man for the Job

28 July 2010 - A humiliating night becomes life altering as Wright experiences Merwin’s “negative capability” for the first time.

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Norman Solomon: State of Denial: After the Big Leak, Spinning for War

28 July 2010 - In the current stage of denial, administration spinners are acutely eager to distinguish Obama’s “new policy” from events as recent as last year—as though we’re supposed to believe it’s no longer the case that the Taliban is “gaining strength.”

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Chuck Collins: A Long-Ago Meeting With The Remarkable Shirley Sherrod

27 July 2010 - Lost in the chatter about the firing of Shirley Sherrod and subsequent USDA apology is the unquestionable fact that she had devoted her entire life to economic justice.

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