June 2011 archive

Trade in dishonesty

Birtherism is Alive and Well on World Net Daily

By Hrafnkell Haraldsson, June 16, 2011 Birtherism, by any normal standard dead since the release of President Obama’s birth certificate on April 27 and the mercy suicide of Donald…  [more]

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The Truth About the Economy

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTzMqm2TwgE[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTzMqm2TwgE Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explaining what went wrong with America’s economy in just 2 minutes and 15 seconds–with illustrations to boot.…  [more]

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Guilt by innuendo

The sharia myth sweeps America

By Amy Sullivan, 14 June 2011 If you are not vitally concerned about the possibility of radical Muslims infiltrating the U.S. government and establishing a Taliban-style theocracy, then you are not a candidate for…  [more]

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Occupied Bahrain

I saw these brave doctors trying to save lives – these charges are a pack of lies

By Robert Fisk, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 Has the Khalifa family gone mad? Yesterday, the Bahraini royal family started an utterly fraudulent…  [more]

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An extraordinary opportunity

Some Arab-Americans need more of the American

By Hussein Ibish, June 14, 2011 The Arab-American community continues to suffer from the debilitating condition of operating primarily within an Arab rather than an American framework, and of approaching its political…  [more]

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Botched imperial partitions

Tremors on mountains of tyranny

By Pankaj Mishra, June 13, 2011 AT A dark moment in postcolonial history, when many US-backed despots seemed indestructible, the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz wrote: ”We shall witness [the day] when the…  [more]

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Descent into darkness

Looking beyond Obama to ‘The Golden Age’

By Paul Rosenberg, 11 Jun 2011 15:53 A few short weeks ago, President Obama was on top of the world – or so it seemed. He first pushed back against the…  [more]

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