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
Encumbered with help
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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Mar 10 2011
The military digital complex
Lessons from Anonymous on cyberwar By Haroon Meer, Mar 2011 16:11 GMT … “Cyberwar” is a heavily loaded term, which conjures up Hollywood inspired images of hackers causing oil refineries to explode. Some security celebrities came out very strongly against the thought of it, claiming that cyberwar was less science, and more science fiction. Last year …
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Mar 07 2011
Aim high
Harvard A Terrorist-Training Camp? By Andrew Sullivan, 04 Mar 2011 02:48 pm That, believe it or not, is now being taught in the US Air Force Anti-Terrorism Training Course. Above is a slide used in the course. Among other things this tax-payer funded course teaches: And CAIR is obviously a “Muslim Extremist Platform”, not a …
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Mar 06 2011
Priorities in the region
America’s secret plan to arm Libya’s rebels By Robert Fisk, Monday, 7 March 2011 … Desperate to avoid US military involvement in Libya in the event of a prolonged struggle between the Gaddafi regime and its opponents, the Americans have asked Saudi Arabia if it can supply weapons to the rebels in Benghazi. The Saudi …
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Mar 05 2011
Ripe for revolution
Yes, It Could Happen Here By Madawi Al-Rasheed, February 28, 2011 In the age of Arab revolutions, will Saudis dare to honor Facebook calls for anti-government demonstrations on March 11? Will they protest at one of Jeddah’s main roundabouts? Or will they start in Qatif, the eastern region where a substantial Shiite majority has had …
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Mar 05 2011
When you fancied your great numbers
Saudis mobilise thousands of troops to quell growing revolt By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 5 March 2011 … Saudi Arabia was yesterday drafting up to 10,000 security personnel into its north-eastern Shia Muslim provinces, clogging the highways into Dammam and other cities with busloads of troops in fear of next week’s “day of rage” by what …
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