In its unsubtle suggestions of "foreign," "not white" and implicit condescension, the handy moniker American media has developed in its attempt to make sense of 2011's global unrest - "The Arab Spring" - is counterrevolutionary, perhaps deliberately so. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
This is one of those stories that connects the dots between global happenings....so lacking in most news today. Workers of the world unite!
The outraged [Spain’s los indignados] respond they are not anti-system; “it’s the system that it’s against us.” Their original manifesto ... More »
In his unsubtle suggestions of collusion, racism and explicit condemnation of America and its mainstream media, J.A. Myerson exemplifies the less serious-minded Left's semantics fetish while pretending to examine the "Arab Spring" label. Proposing that the phrase is "counterrevolutionary, perhaps deliberately so," Myerson informs us that Dominique Moisi (a man of the French Left) actually coined the term. One can easily envision the scene, as the editors of the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, and producers from CNN, Fox and the other American TV networks, decided over cocktails one snowy evening to crush the nascent "revolution" by so naming it. "Here here," Moisi no doubt replied, raising his glass while accepting ... More »
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