tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593189288898730807.post6038231327365144088..comments2023-09-02T19:33:30.329+08:00Comments on The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer: Study asserts that controversial Gulf labour regime reduces global inequalityThe Turbulent World of Middle East Soccerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780576145703699280noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593189288898730807.post-11634712761586632702014-11-10T23:35:17.675+08:002014-11-10T23:35:17.675+08:00Thank you for this information but it would be use...Thank you for this information but it would be useful to know about the study’s authors and their beliefs and values. Posner is a staunch supporter of the endless spying-snooping-state, offering his backing, in many articles and talks, to the idea that it is OK for the NSA to collect all information on everyone, monitor all our phone calls and e-mails, offering the feeble excuse that we already provide personal information to the IRS and health providers. A quick web-search would show his often repeated statement that he “doesn’t see a problem” with this shredding of the US Constitution because he cannot think of a single instance where the government “used information obtained for security purposes to target a political opponent, dissenter, or critic;” He has also said that “Mass surveillance—where emails and other communications are vacuumed up, stored in databases, and then searched for keywords—doesn’t harm anyone in itself. The problem only arises when the information is used to detain, interrogate, or harass people.”<br />In a New Republic book review he wrote that “The United States remains a pretty safe place and a pretty free place—one where the pervasive social control of 1984 is as remote today as it was twenty-nine years ago. Although the NSA has recently admitted certain illegalities, the flood of disclosures has not yet revealed concrete abuses—the spying on political opponents or the harassment of dissenters—comparable to those of the 1970s.” He must have been hiding at his university office for the past few decades if he has not heard about indefinite detention without trial or “extraordinary rendition” or death by drones. I would recommend he spend a little more time reading The Guardian and some of the ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation’s well-researched reports about the violation of constitutional and human rights before he writes reports on workers in the Gulf states.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16337632437231752707noreply@blogger.com