Sep 04 2014
Twitter Agent Provocateur “Ahimla Jihada” Exposed As Fake By Shibli Zaman, September 3, 2014 Recently, Twitter was abuzz with its latest agent provocateur tweeting in support of the orcs of our time, ISIS. I’ve emblazoned the image with the word “Fake” in order to avoid spreading this nonsense unwittingly. The tweets of this …
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Jul 25 2014
The United States Wants the World to Forget These Prisoners By Molly Crabapple, July 21, 2014 Andy Stepanian is one of the kindest humans I’ve ever met. An activist publicist, Andy draws attention to Americans imprisoned for their beliefs. He is straitlaced and gentle, and the only time he ever declined to buy me …
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Jul 25 2014
Eight hundred dead Palestinians. But Israel has impunity By Robert Fisk, Friday 25 July 2014 Impunity is the word that comes to mind. Eight hundred dead Palestinians. Eight hundred. That’s infinitely more than twice the total dead of flight MH17 over Ukraine. And if you refer only to the “innocent” dead – ie no …
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Jun 22 2014
A successful caliphate in six simple steps By Khaled Diab, Tuesday 17 June 2014 To the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), I understand you wish to restore the caliphate in Iraq and Syria. But are you sure this is really what you want? As a secular, liberal Arab living in the …
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Jun 20 2014
The myth of the 1,400 year Sunni-Shia war By Murtaza Hussain, 09 Jul 2013 11:14 During the period of European rule over Rwanda, the Belgian colonial administrators of the territory accomplished an extraordinary feat in their subjugation of the local population – the deliberate manufacture of new ethnic divisions. By formulating ethnic categorisations based …
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Jun 17 2014
Now we see how his doctrine turns enemies into ‘allies’ By Robert Fisk, Sunday 15 June 2014 How do they get away with these lies? Now Tony Blair tells us that Western “inaction” in Syria has produced the Iraq crisis. But since bombing Syria would have brought to power in Damascus the very Islamists …
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Jun 13 2014
It was better to live in Iraq under Saddam By Chris Maume, Thursday 12 June 2014 News that Islamic extremists have conquered Mosul took me back 30 years, to memories of a weekend in the city when I responded to the latest caesura between me and my then-girlfriend in a sane, mature fashion, by …
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