Dec 14 2011
Newt, Mitt, Bibi and Vladimir By Thomas L. Friedman, December 13, 2011 … I have a simple motto when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I love both Israelis and Palestinians, but God save me from some of their American friends — those who want to love them to death, literally. That thought came to …
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Dec 12 2011
Newt, the Jews, and an “Invented” People By David Remnick, December 11, 2011 … Late last week, as part of a Republican pander-fest for the Jewish vote—what Jon Stewart aptly called a “tuchus kiss-off”—Newt Gingrich, the frontrunner in Iowa and South Carolina, turned on the spigot of his pedantry and called the Palestinians an “invented” …
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Dec 10 2011
The Terrible Beauty of Wikileaks By Idrees, December 10th, 2011 … Following are excerpts from my long essay on Wikileaks and the Palestine Papers which appears in The Arabs Are Alive, the first issue of Critical Muslim, edited by Ziauddin Sardar and PULSE’s own Robin Yassin-Kassab. British journalist Gary Younge once quipped that the English …
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Dec 09 2011
Bankers are the dictators of the West By Robert Fisk, Saturday 10 December 2011 … Writing from the very region that produces more clichés per square foot than any other “story” – the Middle East – I should perhaps pause before I say I have never read so much garbage, so much utter drivel, as …
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Dec 06 2011
U.S.’s Afghan Headache: $400-a-Gallon Gasoline By Nathan Hodge, December 6, 2011 … OVER EASTERN AFGHANISTAN—Parachuting a barrel of fuel to a remote Afghan base takes sharp flying skills, steady nerves and flawless timing. It also costs a lot of money—up to $400 a gallon, by military estimates. But the Pentagon is stuck with the expense …
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Dec 05 2011
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU Brand new track produced by Red Skull, taken from the highly anticipated album Soundtrack To The Struggle by Lowkey. So, we must ask ourselves, what is the dictionary definition of “terrorism”? The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. But what is “terror”? According to the dictionary I …
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