{"id":328,"date":"2004-08-09T11:53:51","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T15:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=328"},"modified":"2007-03-05T07:19:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T12:19:03","slug":"sudans-osama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sudans-osama","title":{"rendered":"Sudan’s Osama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lee Smith, besides being the all-time MLB saves leader<\/a> and a novelist who writes about southern women<\/a>, also discusses the Arab world on Slate. Last week, he wrote a pretty neat piece about Sudan, discussing the “palace intrigues” and motivations for the genocide<\/a>, while also trying to put the current atrocity in its context in the War on Terror.<\/p>\n

Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lee Smith, besides being the all-time MLB saves leader and a novelist who writes about southern women, also discusses the Arab world on Slate. Last week, he wrote a pretty neat piece about Sudan, discussing the “palace intrigues” and motivations for the genocide, while also trying to put the current atrocity in its context in … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Sudan’s Osama”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-explicit","category-sudan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-5i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":274,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sudan-again","url_meta":{"origin":328,"position":0},"title":"Sudan Again","author":"Gil","date":"June 2, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Added a Sudan crisis link to the blogroll. And here's an article from the Financial Times calling for EU action to stop the genocide:The Security Council should in addition authorise all measures short of force to be used against Sudan and warn Khartoum of international military intervention if it does\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sudan"","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":230,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sudan-crisis","url_meta":{"origin":328,"position":1},"title":"Sudan Crisis","author":"Gil","date":"May 17, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Doc Rampage is as pissed off as I am about both the genocide taking place in Sudan and the American media's lack of interest in covering it.Here are some more stories about what's happening there:PBSTelegraphBBCAgain, if you have good ideas about what we can do (and that don't involve sending\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sudan"","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":294,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/no-genocide-for-oil-you-french-motherfers","url_meta":{"origin":328,"position":2},"title":"No Genocide for Oil, you French Motherf***ers!","author":"Gil","date":"July 12, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in May, I wrote my Representative about the Congressional resolution on the Sudanese genocide. He wrote back this weekend (see below). There've been some developments, but no serious results yet. Several Congressmen are calling for the U.S. to label this a genocide, which would automatically trigger intervention by a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sudan"","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":583,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-sudan","url_meta":{"origin":328,"position":3},"title":"More Sudan","author":"Gil","date":"July 26, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Nicholas Kristof of the NYTimes is insanely pissed off at the media for ignoring the genocide in Darfur:When I've asked television correspondents about this lapse, they've noted that visas to Sudan are difficult to get and that reporting in Darfur is expensive and dangerous. True, but TV crews could at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sudan"","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":265,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/and-boy-are-my-arms-tired","url_meta":{"origin":328,"position":4},"title":"And, boy, are my arms tired!","author":"Gil","date":"June 14, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm back from California. I'll ramble extensively about it tonight. 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