Category: America

Sorry means never

It’s Blair I feel really sorry for By Mark Steel, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 … Isn’t it marvellous that all these governments are determined to do “something” about Colonel Gaddafi? For example Hillary Clinton said she supported military action once the Arab League – made up of countries such as Bahrain, Syria, Yemen and Saudi …

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Worth more than boys

The sanctity of the soaring Qassam By Amira Hass, 00:56 23.03.11 … The Hamas authorities once again forgot that the neighbor/occupier to its east is crazy. Fact: Over Shabbat, Hamas’ military wing fired more than 50 mortar shells at Israel. Or perhaps it didn’t forget: Perhaps it merely thought the Palestinian people in Gaza were …

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Morocco to Mesopotamia

Right across the Arab world, freedom is now a prospect By Robert Fisk, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 … In the dying days of the Ottoman empire, American diplomats – US consuls in Beirut, Jerusalem, Cairo and other cities – NGOs across the region and thousands of American missionaries, pleaded with the State Department and with …

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Repertoires of revolt

The globalisation of revolution By Tarak Barkawi, 21 Mar 2011 14:41 … To listen to the hype about social networking websites and the Egyptian revolution, one would think it was Silicon Valley and not the Egyptian people who overthrew Mubarak. Via its technologies, the West imagines itself to have been the real agent in the uprising. …

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Bats in a box

First it was Saddam. Then Gaddafi. Now there’s a vacancy for the West’s favourite crackpot tyrant By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 19 March 2011 … So we are going to take “all necessary measures” to protect the civilians of Libya, are we? Pity we didn’t think of that 42 years ago. Or 41 years ago. Or… …

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Understand the evildoer

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUEGHdQO7WA[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUEGHdQO7WA TEDxPSU – A Radical Experiment in Empathy By Sam Edwards, October 10, 2010 Sam Richards is a sociologist and award-winning teacher who has been inspiring undergraduate students at Penn State since 1990. Every semester, 725 students register for his Race and Ethnic Relations course, one of the most popular classes at Penn State …

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Obama as a crypto-Muslim

Sharia threat bandwagon just keeps rolling on By Sarah Posner, Wednesday 16 March 2011 16.26 GMT … When South Carolina Republican Jeff Duncan went on a tirade about sharia law threatening the constitution at Peter King’s hearing on “The Extent of Radicalisation in the Muslim Community” last week, he provided a telling window into the …

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