American academic, Joan Roelofs, in Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism (State University of New York Press, 2003) argues that Ford and similar foundations play a key role in co-opting opposition movements: While dissent from ruling class ideas is labeled ‘extremism’ and is isolated, individual dissenters may be welcomed and transformed. Indeed, ruling [...]
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Last month I received an email from a South American gentleman I had never met. He said that he and his wife were coming to Spain on vacation and that an old friend of mine had recommended that they stop by Granada to visit us. I was bemused because more than 30 years ago we [...]
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Are Our Blogs Being Monitored and Manipulated?
On April 4 I published on this blog a brief article reviewing a couple of events of the Hay Festival Alhambra program in Granada. In it I mentioned the participation of Muslim intellectual and spokesman, Tariq Ramadan, who gave what seemed to me a cogent and reasonable talk on the subject of European Muslims. The [...]
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