Nov 10 2014
General Dan Bolger says what the US does not want to hear: Why We Lost By Spencer Ackerman, Monday 10 November 2014 00.01 EST Dan Bolger is not looking to add to the debate over the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The retired three-star army general, out of patience with unresolved conflicts, means to end it. …
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Oct 19 2014
Elie Wiesel hides ethnic cleansing behind a prayer shawl By Yossi Sarid, Oct. 17, 2014 1:16 AM Much have I learned from gossip columns, which for reasons of propriety are also called “social columns.” Without them how would we know who’s going with whom and for what gain? Before turning to the news pages, …
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Oct 19 2014
Dear Editor, I, too, would like to thank First Church of Nazarene (on lovely, picturesque, bench-free Central Avenue) for its field of little white crosses. My first thought was that the miniature Flanders Fields was a reminder of all the people we killed during our precious-moment wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. …
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Oct 08 2014
From Pol Pot to ISIS: “Anything that flies on everything that moves” By John Pilger, 8 October 2014 In transmitting President Richard Nixon’s orders for a “massive” bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on everything that moves”. As Barack Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since …
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Sep 23 2014
John Kerry’s rhetoric on Isis insults our intelligence and conceals the reality of the situation in Syria By Robert Fisk, Sunday, 21 September 2014 John Kerry is becoming more and more like William McGonagall, the “worst poet in the world” whose horror at the 1879 Tay Bridge railway disaster yielded the imperishable observation that …
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Sep 16 2014
How to make Isis fall on its own sword By Chelsea E Manning in Fort Leavenworth, Tuesday 16 September 2014 11.00 EDT The Islamic State (Isis) is without question a very brutal extremist group with origins in the insurgency of the United States occupation of Iraq. It has rapidly ascended to global attention by …
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Sep 15 2014
Bingo! Here’s another force of evil to be ‘vanquished’ By Robert Fisk, Thursday 11 September 2014 Resurrection, reinvention and linguistics. Barack Obama did the lot. And now he’s taking America to war in Syria as well as Iraq. Oh yes, and he’s going to defeat Isis, its “barbarism”, “genocide”, its “warped ideology” – until …
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