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Jul 27 2010

Mollywood On My Mind

 Politics & US foreign policy: Pakistan (or Mollywood On My Mind) It seems to me that the keystone to present (=Obama) policy in ‘Af-Pak’ is the very nature of politics in Pakistan.  And the question there is … which linguistic…  [more]

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Jul 24 2010

Hiroshima II

 Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah ‘worse than Hiroshima’ By Patrick Cockburn, Saturday, 24 July 2010: Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed…  [more]

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Jul 21 2010

Hating is OK

 Attacking Muslims Is In Vogue Again Among Conservatives By Jason Linkins, huffingtonpost.com, 07-21-10 01:10 PM (updated 07-21-10 08:54 PM) …Glenn Beck has decided that he cannot tolerate the thought of American Muslims riding around on rollercoasters for fun! This is…  [more]

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Jul 21 2010

Lost in translation

 Bad translation makes fundamentalists of us all By Marie Dhumières, guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 July 2010 16.00 BST http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/jul/20/translation-arabic-language-fundamentalist-muslim or http://bit.ly/a2gGGW or http://tinyurl.com/2fjebba I was recently watching the Spanish documentary To Shoot an Elephant, about the Israeli attacks on Gaza…  [more]

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Jul 18 2010

Refudiating Muslims

 Geoffrey Dunn’s HuffingtonPost post (is that redundant?) today: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/palins-bigoted-twitter-cal_b_650562.html or http://huff.to/a69dg9 or http://tinyurl.com/32dx5vc Palin’s Bigoted Twitter Calls on Muslims to “Refudiate” Echoing the bigoted and right-wing contortions of the National Republican Trust PAC and disgraced Tea Party leader Mark Williams,…  [more]

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Jul 17 2010

You know who

 Robert Fisk on Fadlallah again, this time on our present season of grovelling whenever “anything might offend you know who.” http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-theyre-all-grovelling-and-you-can-guess-the-reason-2028720.html or http://bit.ly/d9tSpU or http://tinyurl.com/32lxjd8 Last paragraph: Looking back, the Obama grovelling started in that famous Cairo reach-out-to-the-Muslim-world speech, when…  [more]

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Jul 16 2010

Robert Plant and the Band of Joy

 She Who Must Be Obeyed and I drove to Little Rock last night to see Robert Plant and the Band of Joy perform at Robinson Center Music Hall.  Great Show!  The latest incarnation of Band of Joy is Robert Plant…  [more]

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