Category: Culture

What we’re up against

Twitter Agent Provocateur “Ahimla Jihada” Exposed As Fake By Shibli Zaman, September 3, 2014     Recently, Twitter was abuzz with its latest agent provocateur tweeting in support of the orcs of our time, ISIS. I’ve emblazoned the image with the word “Fake” in order to avoid spreading this nonsense unwittingly. The tweets of this …

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Visions of ethnic purity and supremacy

What a rising demand for the sperm of IDF soldiers and a “fun” questionnaire reveal about Israel By Ilan Pappé, Sunday 17 August 2014   The public debate in this country about the Gaza crisis has some familiar features. The public at large deems Israel’s actions as war crimes, while the government and mainstream media …

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Our brightest lights are extinguishing themselves

Robin Williams’ divine madness will no longer disrupt the sadness of the world By Russell Brand, Tuesday 12 August 2014 12.12 EDT   I’d been thinking about Robin Williams a bit recently. His manager Larry Bresner told me that when Robin was asked by a German journalist on a press junket why the Germans had …

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Sired by Abraham

A historic event   Dear editor: I don’t know how many of your readers realize that our world is experiencing an historic event this month. In the month of August, in the year of our Lord 1191, mankind saw, as we witness today, five Fridays, five Saturdays, and five Sundays. This event occurs once every …

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How about a War on War?

War Is People Too By Jeffrey Hutchins, 2014   It’s very interesting that Corporations are now legally invested with nearly all the same rights and protections as individual people. We have made Corporations the second androids: beings made out of non-living parts. The first android, of course, was Religion. Every person’s vision of God or …

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Those who are left behind

As well as killing hundreds of Gaza’s children, Israel has destroyed the lives of thousands more By Yara Hawari, Wednesday 6 August 2014   As with all wars, the war in Gaza is being measured by its dead. According to a UN report published three days ago, nearly 1800 Palestinians have died in this latest …

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Swallowing their own lies

Israel-Gaza conflict: What has Israel achieved in 26 bloody days? By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 3 August 2014   As Gaza is devastated by a new paroxysm of violence, what has Israel achieved by its 26-day bombardment and ground intervention? The outcome so far is similar to that of past Israeli wars in Lebanon and Gaza: …

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