Mar 25 2012
The False Debate About Attacking Iran By Nicholas D. Kristof, March 24, 2012 … I wonder if we in the news media aren’t inadvertently leaving the impression that there is a genuine debate among experts about whether an Israeli military strike on Iran makes sense this year. There really isn’t such a debate. Or rather, it’s …
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Mar 24 2012
War on Iran? It is too soon to reminisce about Iraq, let alone have a repeat By Marina Hyde, Friday 23 March 2012 16.30 EDT … The thing about a supertanker is that at least you can turn it round. It takes a while, by all accounts, but you have to think any such vessel …
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Mar 23 2012
‘Belambai’ is Afghanistan’s ‘My Lai’ By Paul Rosenberg, 21 Mar 2012 13:07 … He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you – Friedrich Nietzsche I immediately thought of the My Lai Massacre …
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Mar 21 2012
Madness is not the reason for this massacre By Robert Fisk, Saturday 17 March 2012 … I’m getting a bit tired of the “deranged” soldier story. It was predictable, of course. The 38-year-old staff sergeant who massacred 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, near Kandahar this week had no sooner returned to base than the …
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Mar 13 2012
Massacres are the inevitable result of foreign occupation By Seumas Milne, Tuesday 13 March 2012 18.20 EDT … It was an “isolated incident”, US officials insisted. The murder of 16 Afghan civilians as they slept, Hillary Clinton declared, was the “inexplicable act” of one soldier. And as Barack Obama and David Cameron prepared to put …
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Mar 07 2012
Auschwitz complex By M.S., Mar 6th 2012, 19:04 … During his meeting with Barack Obama on Monday, Bibi Netanyahu said Israel “must have the ability always to defend itself, by itself, against any threat.” “I believe that’s why you appreciate, Mr. President, that Israel must reserve the right to defend itself,” Netanyahu said. “After all, …
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Mar 06 2012
Is Homs an echo of what happened in Srebrenica? By Robert Fisk, Wednesday 07 March 2012 … No entry to the International Red Cross. Not yet. Maybe in a few days, when the area has been secured. Men and boys separated from the women and children. Streams of refugees. Women, children, the old, few males. …
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