Category: Foreign Policy

Protect the system of domination

Bonfire of the dictators By Robert Fisk, Saturday 31 December 2011 … How come they lasted so long? We are so keen to analyse the revolutions that tore the Middle East’s dictatorships apart this year that we have forgotten the record of endurance of these vicious men and their sheer, dogged, ruthless power to survive. …

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To think differently

Apple: time to make a conflict-free iPhone By Delly Mawazo Sesete, Friday 30 December 2011 15.38 EST … My name is Delly Mawazo Sesete. I am originally from the North Kivu povince in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where a deadly conflict has been raging for over 15 years. While …

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Smells like TEA

Old Ron Paul Video Warns of One-World Religion, UN Dictatorship By Tim Murphy, Tue Dec. 27, 2011 3:05 AM PST … Rep. Ron Paul’s presidential campaign has run into trouble recently after national media refocused on decades-old racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and deeply conspiratorial articles published under Paul’s name (and at least occasionally under his signature) …

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Special clearance

Muslim Brotherhood Taking Over America, Six Hour FBI Meeting By Victoria Jackson, 12/27/11 08:19 AM ET … Former “Saturday Night Live” actress Victoria Jackson, working on confidential information she as a web talk show host has special clearance to obtain, has claimed that the United States is being overtaken by radical Muslims bent on bringing …

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The well is deep

The Means Determine the End By Harry Emerson Fosdick, Living Under Tension, 1941, Harper and Brothers, New York and London, pages 102 – 111. … EVERYONE knows how commonly our high determinations peter out. We resolve that we will overcome some unfortunate habit, will have a lovelier family life, will deepen our friendships, will do better …

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Choose your theocracy

Ultra-Orthodox spit on “immodest” 8-year-old girl in Beit Shemesh By Ami Kaufman, Sunday, December 25 2011 … Naama Margolis, an 8-year-old from Bet Shemesh, is the most famous girl in Israel today… …   …read entire story at +972 Magazine: http://972mag.com/watch-ultra-orthodox-spit-on-immodest-8-year-old-girl-in-bet-shemesh/31268/ or http://bit.ly/tdyQMV   And why is that? Well, on Friday evening, Naama told her …

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Religious impulse revealed

2011: when protest turned peaceful By Peter Popham, Saturday 24 December 2011 … In September, a man nicknamed “Little Gandhi” was buried in his home town near Damascus. Ghiyath Matar, a 24-year-old father-to-be, had been tortured and killed by the Syrian secret police. His crime: greeting the soldiers, who came to crush the anti-regime protests, …

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