In Nicaragua , battered by warfare and economic disaster, support for President Anastasio Somoza is virtually nonexistent. But the forces allied against the dictator are by no means united among themselves.
The story of Al Nas TV shows that there is room in Muslim societies for tolerating religiously offensive ideas.
Since the Civil War, Union rhetoric has justified military adventurism -- so it's no accident that neo-Confederates and nativists are often the loudest anti-imperial voices.
Some thoughts on Tony Judt's opus Postwar
For a document that was supposedly "dead-on-arrival," it's certainly having a strong influence