M. Shahid Alam – Shoe Jihad: A Satire
By Guest Post • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: Features, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of ResistanceThe time has come, the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax—
Of cabbages—and kings… (Lewis Carroll)
These kleptocrats throw themselves at the feet
of Western plutocracies: they spurn
the real source of power – their own people –
seeking clientage under Western boots.
Lesser rogues gravitate to bigger ones:
this is the law of global hegemony.
This tendency emerges [...]
