Author: Idrees Ahmad
I am a Lecturer in Digital Journalism at the University of Stirling and a former research fellow at the University of Denver’s Center for Middle East Studies. I am the author of The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). I write for The Observer, The Nation, The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Al Jazeera, Dissent, The National, VICE News, Huffington Post, In These Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, Die Tageszeitung (TAZ), Adbusters, Guernica, London Review of Books (Blog), The New Arab, Bella Caledonia, Asia Times, IPS News, Medium, Political Insight, The Drouth, Canadian Dimension, Tanqeed, Variant, etc. I have appeared as an on-air analyst on Al Jazeera, the BBC, TRT World, RAI TV, Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon, Alternative Radio with David Barsamian and several Pacifica Radio channels.
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Change you can believe in…what a hollow shell of a man.
what a fuckwhit, and I thought he might be OK< hear the jews in the audience screaming at the question!
i think the beauty contestant a did better job than her president ;D in answering suh TOUGH questions.
i love the analogy to miss california, idrees.
incidentally, as a result of leila’s example, last night i dreamt that i too confronted our president (only i was in the oval office :D). it may seem funny, but we see how instantaneously the imagination expands when certain actions enter into the realm of possibility.
If that clown Obama is what the people of America refer to as eloquent, it’s pretty easy to see why they spent 8 years worshipping a barely literate dingbat from TexASS.
As for the comparison to Miss Teen South Carolina – that’s an insult to the teenager…..