Armenian genocide: To continue to deny the truth of this mass human cruelty is close to a criminal lie By Robert Fisk, Monday 20 April 2015 At seven o’clock on Thursday evening, a group of very brave men and women will gather in Taksim Square, in the centre of Istanbul, to stage an unprecedented …
Category: Foreign Policy
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Apr 04 2015
On this day before Easter
After lurking in the shadows and watching this unfold (and yet still not knowing what [the Palestinian in Nazareth] wrote that was its catalyst), I guess I’ll throw in my two cents’ worth… The proverbial elephant in the so-called “Holy Land” room is the diaspora Palestinians, who for 70 years and now in their third …
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Mar 25 2015
So very proud of this superpatriot
Dear editor: “Death to America!” This continues to be the chant from those evil, Islamic radicals in Iran. What is there about this message that all of you liberal sympathizers don’t understand? They are clearly saying that they want to kill all of us — including you! Yes! They also regard most of you …
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Mar 11 2015
478,819 Arkansans
The Most Important People In The World Are From Arkansas By Charles Pierce, Mar 10, 2015 @ 9:21 AM I know I missed it on election night back in November, but it seems that 478,819 citizens of the state of Arkansas voted themselves in control of the foreign policy of the United States. They …
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Mar 10 2015
You’re so naïve
The Mother of All Middle East Conspiracy Theories By Karl reMarks, 9 Mar 2015 The Middle East is, to coin a phrase, a complex place. All is not what it seems. Appearances can be deceptive. The truth is hard to come by. It is also a place where journalistic conventions necessitate the use of …
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Feb 23 2015
Obama sitting on the throne
Dear editor: America is in deep trouble! Trouble? From what? Is it from radical Islamic terrorism? Al-Qaida? ISIS or Islamic State? Not even close — it’s global warming! That’s right! That’s what the Obama administration told us recently. They said that “the danger from global warming is far more dangerous to us than extreme …
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Feb 23 2015
Oh brother! Where art thou?!
Dear editor: Oh brother! Where art thou?! I mean really, where do you get this stuff? There must be something in the water here. A few weeks ago, a bizarre prognostication of smiting from outer space appeared on the pages of this newspaper. In the religion section. Apparently asteroid BL86, in just 12 short years, …
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