Category: Culture

No casualties? No problem.

The US love affair with drones By Ted Rall, 18 Jul 2011 07:39 … One of the pleasures of traveling through the developing world is that things develop. They change. There’s always something new. Afghanistan is, depending on one’s point of view, developing, deteriorating, or doing both at once. Example: Last August found me and two …

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Terrorism in Palestine

  Jewish settlers are terrorising Palestinians, says Israeli general By Catrina Stewart in Jerusalem, Monday, 18 July 2011 … A senior Israeli army commander has warned that unchecked “Jewish terror” against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank threatens to plunge the territory into another conflict. In unusually outspoken comments, Major General Avi Mizrahi took aim …

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Napoleonic pretensions

Now the Arab Spring becomes an Arab Summer By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 16 July 2011 … Syrians shot down in the streets across the country, tanks surrounding the major cities of Syria, soldiers killing unarmed, largely Sunni Muslim demonstrators as the authorities protest that “armed gangs” are themselves killing troops. In northern Syria, citizens barricade …

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Bush on steroids

Republican with self-belief and God on his ticket By Rupert Cornwell, Sunday, 17 July 2011 … Are you of the view that the last thing the US wants is another swaggering, tax-cutting, God-fearing governor of Texas running for president? Think again. Unless he’s deliberately been leading everyone a barn dance these last couple of months, …

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What it actually means

Arabic for right-wingers By Justin Elliott, Thursday, Jun 16, 2011 21:01 ET … In a now infamous column, the writer Eliana Benador argued this week that Anthony Weiner (who is a Jew) may have converted to Islam but was hiding it from the world in accordance with the practice of “taqiyya.” “It is also important, …

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The case has not been made

The Rise of the Wrecking-Ball Right By Robert Reich, Friday, July 15, 2011 … Recently I debated a conservative Republican who insisted the best way to revive the American economy was to shrink the size of government. When I asked him to explain his logic he said, simply, “government is the source of all our …

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Walid Shoebat

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