Umar Khan
https://www.goodreads.com/adonis_argus
The premise of this book is that doing well with money has a little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.
“Although most Arab states are controlled by undemocratic regimes subservient to the United States and desirous of Israeli approval, Arab public opinion remains acutely sensitive to the appeal of Palestine.”
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
“the Middle East has for years been ruled by the largest concentration of autocratic regimes of any region in the world. Moreover, the United States has never supported the advance of democracy in the Middle East in any sustained way, preferring to deal with the dictatorships and absolute monarchies that control most countries.”
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
“In its more extreme versions, populism posits that there is no objective truth at all and that everyone has “their own truth,” which they wield to vanquish rivals.”
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
“The PLO’s assaults in Israel were often directed at civilian targets and visibly did little to advance the Palestinian national cause, if indeed they did not harm it. Inevitably, all these factors turned important sectors of the Lebanese population against the PLO.”
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
“intersubjective things like laws, gods, nations, corporations, and currencies exist in the nexus between large numbers of minds. More specifically, they exist in the stories people tell one another.”
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
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