Dec 10 2011
The Terrible Beauty of Wikileaks By Idrees, December 10th, 2011 … Following are excerpts from my long essay on Wikileaks and the Palestine Papers which appears in The Arabs Are Alive, the first issue of Critical Muslim, edited by Ziauddin Sardar and PULSE’s own Robin Yassin-Kassab. British journalist Gary Younge once quipped that the English …
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Dec 09 2011
Bankers are the dictators of the West By Robert Fisk, Saturday 10 December 2011 … Writing from the very region that produces more clichés per square foot than any other “story” – the Middle East – I should perhaps pause before I say I have never read so much garbage, so much utter drivel, as …
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Dec 06 2011
U.S.’s Afghan Headache: $400-a-Gallon Gasoline By Nathan Hodge, December 6, 2011 … OVER EASTERN AFGHANISTAN—Parachuting a barrel of fuel to a remote Afghan base takes sharp flying skills, steady nerves and flawless timing. It also costs a lot of money—up to $400 a gallon, by military estimates. But the Pentagon is stuck with the expense …
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Dec 05 2011
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU Brand new track produced by Red Skull, taken from the highly anticipated album Soundtrack To The Struggle by Lowkey. So, we must ask ourselves, what is the dictionary definition of “terrorism”? The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. But what is “terror”? According to the dictionary I …
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Dec 04 2011
Phoenician footprints all over Beirut By Robert Fisk, Saturday 03 December 2011 … I walked down a Phoenician street the other day, built under Persian rule. A bit bumpy and uneven underfoot – like many a street in modern day Iranian and Lebanese cities – but this one happened to be about 2,600 years old. …
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Dec 04 2011
The new cyber-industrial complex spying on us By Pratap Chatterjee, Friday 2 December 2011 18.59 EST … We live digital lives now, flitting from Facebook to YouTube, checking our iPhones and BlackBerries, and chatting with our loved ones on Skype. Very few of us worry too much about tweeting our personal opinions on politics or …
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Dec 04 2011
A New York spider gave me an insight into US private healthcare By Laurie Penny, Sunday 4 December 2011 09.30 EST … It started with a spider. Someone with a taste for narrative justice might call it retribution, but there’s really no moral correlation between the wisdom of absconding with a relative stranger after a …
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