Jul 07 2013
My life at Guantanamo By Moath al-Alwi, 07 Jul 2013 11:10 A month ago, the guards here at Guantanamo Bay gave me an orange jumpsuit. After years in white and brown, the colours of compliant prisoners, I am very proud to wear my new clothes. The colour orange is Guantanamo’s banner. Anyone who knows …
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Jul 06 2013
Wall Street Journal says Egypt needs a Pinochet – can it get away with that? By Martin Pengelly, Saturday 6 July 2013 09.09 EDT On Friday, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial entitled “After the Coup in Cairo”. Its final paragraph contained these words: Egyptians would be lucky if their new ruling generals …
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Jun 28 2013
For Palestine By Susan Abulhawa, 26 Jun 2013 17:32 For once, we won! Mohammad Assaf, that brilliant, joyful, beautiful young man with a voice from heaven sang. And we all hung onto every note, every lyric, every smile and gesture he made on the stage of the Arab Idol contest over the past few …
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Jun 24 2013
God’s Dear John Letter To The U.S. By http://www.thegodarticle.com/, 09/13/2011 Dear John and Jane Public, Honestly, don’t fret over it. I get it. Dear God, I get it. You’ve found a new god. Truthfully, I’ve seen this coming for awhile. I tried to deny it. I even tried to change it. (I have to …
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Jun 23 2013
The three things that always accompany occupation By Robert Fisk, Sunday 23 June 2013 On 20th November 2001, in the Afghan embassy in Islamabad, the Taliban stamped into my passport their very last visa, number 001518, valid only for Kandahar and printed on a paper of varying shades of green. At the top were …
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Jun 14 2013
NSA to Americans: ‘All your data are belong to us!’ By Dan Hind, 10 Jun 2013 18:19 A few days ago, the Guardian published details of the US National Security Administration’s PRISM programme. We now know that the NSA is able to access personal data stored by Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Paltalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL …
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Jun 01 2013
Why do people hate Israel? (a self-test) By Bradley Burston, May.28, 2013 | 8:15 PM Every year, the BBC World Service publishes a Country Ratings opinion survey, meant to indicate which of the world’s nations are among the most popular, and which the most disliked. In 2013, as in years past, more than 26,000 …
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