Jun 07 2011
The people vs The President By Robert Fisk, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 … Syria’s revolt against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad is turning into an armed insurrection, with previously peaceful demonstrators taking up arms to fight their own army and the “shabiha” – meaning “the ghosts”, in English – of Alawi militiamen who have …
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Jun 07 2011
The cynicism of Israeli settlement policy By Ray Close, Tue 6/7/2011 In case anyone has any doubts about the cynical motivation that has often inspired the Israeli Government’s practice of unofficially encouraging the establishment of settlements in occupied territory as a calculated instrument of territorial expansion: You’ll be interested in this anecdote, I think. Coincidentally, four of the …
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Jun 06 2011
The dumping ground for despots welcomes another By Robert Fisk, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 … Saudi Arabia is a great dumping ground for despots. Remember Idi Amin? We Brits loved him once, but when he turned against us and started eating his enemies – and keeping the occasional head in the fridge – we were …
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Jun 05 2011
The following comments, now updated a bit, were first submitted by email at the end of April. They were promptly lost (raptured into the ether?) and I was asked to resubmit or write about something else. But before I could decide, President Obama gleefully served up the pandering Donald’s pampered posterior on a platter at the …
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Jun 04 2011
Port in a storm By Shay Fogelman, 12:23 03.06.11 … Two months ago, the Knesset passed the Budget Principles Law (Amendment 39 ), more popularly known as the “Nakba Law.” The ostensibly procedural clause is intended to prevent institutions that receive state funding from marking the “day of the catastrophe” – which is how the …
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Jun 04 2011
The photograph below was in newspapers around the world yesterday, part of an AP article titled “Pace of Afghanistan withdrawal undecided” by Lolita C. Baldor and Pauline Jelinek. In our local paper, the Sentinel-Record, the caption under the photograph reads “QUESTIONS: Food supplies for US Marines hanging off small parachutes are dropped from a plane Thursday outside Forward Operating …
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Jun 03 2011
Manuel Zelaya’s courageous homecoming By Amy Goodman, Wednesday 1 June 2011 14.34 BST … While most in the United States were recognising Memorial Day with a three-day weekend, the people of Honduras were engaged in a historic event: the return of President Manuel Zelaya, 23 months after being forced into exile at gunpoint in the …
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