Sep 15 2014
Bingo! Here’s another force of evil to be ‘vanquished’ By Robert Fisk, Thursday 11 September 2014 Resurrection, reinvention and linguistics. Barack Obama did the lot. And now he’s taking America to war in Syria as well as Iraq. Oh yes, and he’s going to defeat Isis, its “barbarism”, “genocide”, its “warped ideology” – until …
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Sep 14 2014
Dear editor, Have you been hearing a hollow clanging in the middle of the night? Faint, but growing louder in that gathering twilight before the fitful dreams of midnight’s slumber? Could it be the sound of the dark lord himself, Darth Cheney, frenzied with blood lust, beating his bionic breast like a reborn King-Kong as …
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Sep 12 2014
The sad legacy of 9/11: Isis and al-Qaida are stronger than ever By Ali Soufan, Thursday 11 September 2014 In the years leading up to the attacks of 11 September 2001, the west saw al-Qaida rising but didn’t address the threat in time. My colleagues and I in the FBI and over at the …
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Sep 10 2014
Dear editor, Have you heard a distant clanging in the middle of the night? It’s the sound of the dark lord himself, Darth Cheney, thumping his bionic chest as the scent of yet another bloody Iraq war reaches his flared nostrils. It’s back to ancient Babylon, boys! Bubbling crude, black gold. Oil. Halliburton. Abu Ghraib. …
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Sep 04 2014
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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Aug 17 2014
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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Aug 06 2014
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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