Obituary: Edward Said. Edward Said, who has died aged 67, was one of the leading literary critics of the last quarter of the 20th century. As professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, New York, he was widely regarded as the outstanding representative of the post-structuralist left in America. Above all, he was the most articulate and visible advocate of the Palestinian cause in the United States, where it earned him many enemies. The broadness of Said's approach to literature and his other great love, classical music, eludes easy categorisation. His most influential book, Orientalism (1978), is credited with helping to change the direction of several disciplines by exposing an unholy alliance between the enlightenment and colonialism.
Said's influence, however, was far from being confined to the worlds of academic and scholarly discourse. Latterly, he was one of the most trenchant critics of the Oslo peace process and the Palestinian leadership of Yasser Arafat. Jean-Paul Marat: The French Revolution's Own Pre-Marx Socialist Blogger I The Hampton Institute. Jean-Paul Marat: The French Revolution's Own Pre-Marx Socialist Blogger Derek Ide I Social Movement Studies I History I May 18th, 2013 Jean-Paul Marat is often portrayed by contemporary historians as a madman. Thomas Carlyle, a famous French historian, wrote that Marat was "one squalidest horse-leech, redolent of soot. " Stanley Cloomis describes him as a man with "arms flailing about in all directions…with the reckless rage of a lunatic.
" Cloomis continues by commenting on his disbelief that a woman could fall in love with him, citing the fact that he was so "repulsive" even the "wildest extremists of the left and their minions" kept away. Jean-Paul Mara (the "t" added later to appear more "French") was born in 1743 in a small village on the Neuchâtel lake. MADAM - As you have the most diabolical tongue that we have ever had in our town, and as you are a notorious liar and slanderer…I shall take care to make you known at Geneva. The details of his murder spread quickly through Paris. DN! Seumas Milne. Early life[edit] The younger son of the former BBC Director General Alasdair Milne, Milne attended Winchester College and read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, and Economics at Birkbeck College, London University.
His sister, Kirsty, who died in July 2013, was an academic and former journalist.[6] Career[edit] Milne was the business manager of Straight Left, a monthly publication of an orthodox factional group within the Communist Party of Great Britain.[7] Milne worked as a staff journalist for three years on The Economist before joining The Guardian, where he has been a news reporter, Labour Correspondent (Europe), Labour Editor, and Comment Editor (for six years, 2001-7). Milne has reported for The Guardian from the Middle East, Latin America, Russia, Eastern Europe and South Asia,[8] and also written for Le Monde Diplomatique[9] and the London Review of Books.[10] Views[edit] On British politics[edit] On Muslims in Britain[edit] Capitalism[edit] Communism[edit]
Norman Finkelstein. Norman Gary Finkelstein (born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist, activist, professor and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust, an interest motivated by the experiences of his parents who were Jewish Holocaust survivors. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University.
He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and, most recently, DePaul University, where he was an assistant professor from 2001 to 2007. Personal background and education[edit] Norman Finkelstein at Solidarity stage Finkelstein has written of his Jewish parents' experiences during World War II. He completed his undergraduate studies at Binghamton University in New York in 1974, after which he studied at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. Academic career[edit] On From Time Immemorial[edit] John Kiriakou. John Kiriakou (born August 9, 1964) is a former CIA analyst and case officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News, blogger for Huffington Post,[1] and author.[2][3][4] He is notable as the first official within the U.S. government to confirm the use of waterboarding of al-Qaeda prisoners as an interrogation technique, which he described as torture.[5][6] On October 22, 2012, Kiriakou pled guilty to disclosing classified information about a fellow CIA officer that connected the covert operative to a specific operation.
Kiriakou received a prison "send-off" party at an exclusive Washington, D.C. hotel hosted by political peace activists dressed in orange jumpsuits and mock prison costumes.[10] In 2012, Kiriakou received the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage for standing up for constitutional rights.[11] Biography[edit] Education[edit] CIA career[edit] Life after the CIA[edit] Disclosing torture[edit] Barrett Brown. He has spent over a year in FCI Seagoville federal prison and at one time faced over a hundred more as he awaited trial on an assortment of seventeen charges filed in three indictments that include sharing an HTTP link to information publicly released during the 2012 Stratfor email leak, and several counts of conspiring to publicize restricted information about an FBI agent.[3][4][5][6] Between September 2013 and April 2014 he was held under an agreed gag order prohibiting him from discussing his case with the media.[3][7] Early life and education[edit] He attended the private Episcopal School of Dallas for high school but dropped out after his sophomore year.
That summer, in 1998, he interned at the Met, an alternative weekly, and spent his would-be junior year unschooling in Tanzania with his father, who was trying to start a hardwood-harvesting business. While there Brown completed high school online through Texas Tech, earning college credit. Journalism[edit] Arrest and trial[edit] Jeremy Hammond. Jeremy Hammond (born January 8, 1985) is a political activist and computer hacker from Chicago. He was convicted and sentenced[1] in November 2013 to 10 years in US Federal Prison for hacking the private intelligence firm Stratfor and releasing the leaks through the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.[2][3][4] He founded the computer security training website HackThisSite[5] in 2003.[6] Background[edit] Childhood[edit] Education[edit] Hammond attended the University of Illinois at Chicago on a full scholarship.
Music[edit] Jeremy, along with brother Jason, has had a lifelong interest in music, performing in numerous bands through the years. Career[edit] Hammond worked as a Mac technician in Villa Park, Illinois.[6] He also worked as a web developer for Chicago-based Rome & Company. Activism[edit] Computer security[edit] Arrests and criminal history[edit] Marijuana arrests[edit] Hammond was arrested for possessing marijuana in November 2004 and December 2010.[13][14][15] RNC 2004[edit] Support[edit] George Lakoff.