Feb 01 2012
Afghanistan: the big lie Guardian editorial, Wednesday 1 February 2012 18.04 EST … Joseph Goebbels said that if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The big lie told repeatedly about the war in Afghanistan is that the international security assistance force (Isaf) and the …
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Feb 01 2012
What the Occupy movement must learn from Sundance By Naomi Wolf, Tuesday 31 January 2012 13.47 EST … So, late last year, I said – to some controversy here – that the violent crackdown against the Occupy movement in the United States represented the first salvos of a civil war initiated by political and allied …
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Jan 31 2012
With its deadly drones, the US is fighting a coward’s war By George Monbiot, Monday 30 January 2012 16.00 EST … The ancient Greeks, unlike the Jews or the Christians, invested their gods with human failings. Divine judgment, they believed, was neither flawless nor dispassionate; it was warped by lust, vengeance and self-interest. In the …
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Jan 30 2012
Arendt: Born in conflict, Israel will degenerate into Sparta, and American Jews will need to back away By Philip Weiss, January 1, 2012 … For the new year, here are some prophetic excerpts from two essays of Hannah Arendt’s, collected in The Jewish Writings (2007). Please note her predictions of the Nakba, of unending conflict, of …
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Jan 30 2012
Hurrah for Egypt! By Uri Avnery, 28/01/12 … THE IMPOSSIBLE has happened. The Egyptian parliament, democratically elected by a free people, has convened for its first session. For me this is a wonderful, a joyful occasion. For many Israelis, this is a worrisome, a threatening sight. I CANNOT but rejoice when a downtrodden people arises …
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Jan 28 2012
Just Don’t Call Her Che By William Moss Wilson, January 28, 2012 … Late last month the British newspaper The Guardian asked readers to vote for its person of the year. The candidates included household names like German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Egyptian techno-revolutionary Wael Ghonim and the Burmese pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu …
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Jan 28 2012
Newt Gingrich’s agenda-setting big donor By Arun Kundnani, Saturday 28 January 2012 14.18 ES … By donating $10m to the pro-Newt Gingrich Super Pac campaign, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, one of the richest men in the US, and his physician wife, Dr Miriam Adelson, have kept Gingrich in the Republican primary race, and given him …
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