Mar 15 2011
AIPAC’s newest strategy By MJ Rosenberg, 15 Mar 2011 16:55 GMT … Prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu is being heavily criticised in Israel for his blatant exploitation of the murder of five members of one family (including three children) at the Itamar settlement near Nablus. Particularly egregious has been Netanyahu’s demand that president Mahmoud Abbas personally appear on …
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Mar 14 2011
The Arab spring is brighter than ever By Brian Whitaker, Monday 14 March 2011 12.09 GMT … “The Arab world’s much-heralded collective push toward democracy is now in jeopardy,” an article for McClatchy newspapers in the US informed its readers at the weekend. The fact that autocratic regimes in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen are fighting …
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Mar 12 2011
Eye of the Newt By Gail Collins, March 11, 2011 … The presidential race is barely under way, but already we have had our first Big Thought. I am speaking, of course, of Newt Gingrich’s suggestion that he was driven into serial adultery by hard work and patriotism. “There’s no question that at times in my …
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Mar 12 2011
Palestinians understand Gaddafi better than we do By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 12 March 2011 … To Beirut. Storms. Heavy rain. Seas sweeping over the little port by my home. A meeting with a close friend of a son of Gaddafi. “He wants a battle, habibi, he wants a battle. He wants to be the big …
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Mar 12 2011
Against American interventionism By Clancy Sigal, Friday 11 March 2011 22.00 GMT I believe in adequate defence at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6% over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas …
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Mar 11 2011
Tear down this Israeli wall By Roger Water, Friday 11 March 2011 21.30 GMT … In 1980, a song I wrote, Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, was banned by the government of South Africa because it was being used by black South African children to advocate their right to equal education. That apartheid government imposed a …
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Mar 10 2011
The Embarrassments of Empire By David Bromwich, Professor of Literature at Yale Posted: March 10, 2011 03:16 PM Crossposted with TomDispatch.com … From Egypt to Pakistan, February 2011 will be remembered as a month unusually full of the embarrassments of empire. Americans were enthralled by a spectacle of liberty in which we felt we should …
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