Jul 10 2010
Robert Fisk’s commentary on CNN’s firing of Octavia Nasr for a tweet praising Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah (who died this week): Poor old CNN goes on getting more cowardly by the hour. That’s why no one cares about it any more. That can’t be said about Fadlallah. The Americans put it about that he had blessed …
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Jun 25 2010
Here’s an interesting take on the sudden departure of General Stanley McChrystal. By Gordon Duff (a Marine Vietnam veteran in desperate need of a proofreader), published June 23 in Veterans Today: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/23/gordon-duff-the-afghanistan-circus-mcchrystal-leaves-the-center-ring/ or http://bit.ly/dm6Nx2 or http://tinyurl.com/26xqy4d Did Pat Tillman reach out from the grave?
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Jun 21 2010
This is a nearly 10-minute video (thanks Marjorie). I know we’re not allowed to make such comparisons, but think of 1937 Guernica and the infamous Warsaw Ghetto from 1940 – 1943: http://www.theplainlanguagereview.com/2010/02/gaza-in-plain-language.html
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Jun 20 2010
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Iraq crisis By Al Staggs, The Baptist Standard, March 3, 2003 Note: The following commentary was first published in the weekly newsjournal of Texas Baptists on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq by US forces and smaller contingents from the UK, Australia, and Poland. I’ve been involved for …
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Jun 13 2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48893402@N02/ Thanks to a recent post from Alia Yunis (www.aliayunis.com), we now know more about the nine “Islamist extremists” who were murdered by Israeli commandos when they stormed the MV Mavi Marmara in international waters on May 31, 2010. Ever wonder where the next generation of terrorists will come from? Look into the faces …
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Jun 12 2010
Ralph Nader, another “American of Lebanese descent” comments on the departure of Helen Thomas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z_dcD5ebPQ During this interview, Paul Jay mentions his own opinion piece, titled “In Defense of Helen Thomas — On Apologizing to Apologists.” Here’s an important part of it: At any rate, we all know what’s going on here. The hyper-pro-Israel lobby, …
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Jun 12 2010
Fisk, in today’s piece on how a Canadian paper is diverting unwelcome attention on Israel’s latest brutality by reminding readers of Hitler and the Holocaust: As usual, we who speak out against the ruthlessness of Israel’s army – as, of course, we do against the Arabs – are anti-Semites. Remember the Holocaust. Remember Our Guilt. …
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