May 2011 archive

May 02 2011

Mirror, mirror

• Filed under America, Culture, Foreign Policy, Islam, Israel, Palestine, The Middle East

• May 2, 2011

Stop blaming Israel for every grievance in the Middle East

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Monday, 2 May 2011 … First came the Arab spring (followed, in some lands, by the harshest of winters) and now Hamas and Fatah have signed a…  [more]

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May 02 2011

Close encounters

• Filed under America, Foreign Policy, History, War

• May 2, 2011

A close encounter with the man who shook the world

By Robert Fisk, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 … One hot evening in late June 1996, the telephone on my desk in Beirut rang with one of the more extraordinary messages…  [more]

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May 02 2011

Is this what we wanted?

• Filed under America, Culture, Foreign Policy, War

• May 2, 2011

How the U.S. ‘Won’: Torture, Secret Prisons

By Jack Stuef, 3:09 pm May 2, 2011 … In the midst of all the celebrations that good finally defeated evil yesterday, there is this fact: the U.S. got the leads that allowed…  [more]

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May 01 2011

Impeached, or something

• Filed under America, Christianity, Culture, History, Islam, Sarah Palin is a nimrod

• May 1, 2011

Daily Mail Launches Weird Attack On Obama’s Father

By Jason Linkins, 04/29/11 11:40 AM ET … Here’s a clever thing the the U.K.’s Daily Mail did in response to the release of President Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate: a brief…  [more]

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