Sep 24 2013
On laws that must be broken By Ilana Hammerman, Sep. 24, 2013 6:36 AM “Legally mandated destruction.” That is how Haaretz’s editorial on Sunday described the destruction of the village of Khirbet Makhoul in the Jordan Valley. “The structures in question are unlawful and were built without construction permits. The structures were demolished in …
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Sep 14 2013
The Memories Museum of Dr. Mohammed al-Khatib By Yazan al-Saadi, Wednesday, August 7, 2013 In the midst of one of the many cramped and crowded alleyways of Beirut’s Shatila refugee camp, close to qa’at al-sha’ab, or the people’s hall, is a brown metal door leading to a ground-floor apartment. On the old door, …
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Sep 07 2013
Iran, not Syria, is the West’s real target By Robert Fisk, Friday 30 August 2013 Before the stupidest Western war in the history of the modern world begins – I am, of course, referring to the attack on Syria that we all yet have to swallow – it might be as well to say that …
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Aug 27 2013
Does Obama know he’s fighting on al-Qa’ida’s side? By Robert Fisk, Tuesday 27 August 2013 If Barack Obama decides to attack the Syrian regime, he has ensured – for the very first time in history – that the United States will be on the same side as al-Qa’ida. Quite an alliance! Was it not …
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Aug 17 2013
Everything was possible By Omar Robert Hamilton, Saturday, August 17, 2013 – 22:26 I sit, for the 12th hour now, alone and struggling for what to do. For the first time since I got on a plane for Egypt on January 29, 2011, I am at a loss. Worse days than today lie ahead of …
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Aug 14 2013
A nation unhinged: Dispatches from “the nightmare war” By Tom Gallagher, Tuesday, Aug 13, 2013 01:12 PM CDT We should make Nick Turse an honorary baby boomer for writing Kill Anything That Moves. A history of the Vietnam War that finds the My Lai massacre more the rule than the exception, this book is almost …
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Aug 10 2013
The biggest threat to America? The size of its own military budget By Michael Cohen, Friday 9 August 2013 09.30 EDT Dear America: I know you’ve got a lot on your mind these days. Work is a drag; the kids are still on summer vacation; the car is making an awful racket (it’s probably …
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