Dear editor, Have you been hearing a hollow clanging in the middle of the night? Faint, but growing louder in that gathering twilight before the fitful dreams of midnight’s slumber? Could it be the sound of the dark lord himself, Darth Cheney, frenzied with blood lust, beating his bionic breast like a reborn King-Kong as …
Category: The Middle East
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Sep 12 2014
The ideology, not the group
The sad legacy of 9/11: Isis and al-Qaida are stronger than ever By Ali Soufan, Thursday 11 September 2014 In the years leading up to the attacks of 11 September 2001, the west saw al-Qaida rising but didn’t address the threat in time. My colleagues and I in the FBI and over at the …
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Sep 10 2014
The harvest to come
Dear editor, Have you heard a distant clanging in the middle of the night? It’s the sound of the dark lord himself, Darth Cheney, thumping his bionic chest as the scent of yet another bloody Iraq war reaches his flared nostrils. It’s back to ancient Babylon, boys! Bubbling crude, black gold. Oil. Halliburton. Abu Ghraib. …
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Sep 04 2014
What we’re up against
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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Aug 17 2014
Visions of ethnic purity and supremacy
What a rising demand for the sperm of IDF soldiers and a “fun” questionnaire reveal about Israel By Ilan Pappé, Sunday 17 August 2014 The public debate in this country about the Gaza crisis has some familiar features. The public at large deems Israel’s actions as war crimes, while the government and mainstream media …
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Aug 17 2014
Sired by Abraham
A historic event Dear editor: I don’t know how many of your readers realize that our world is experiencing an historic event this month. In the month of August, in the year of our Lord 1191, mankind saw, as we witness today, five Fridays, five Saturdays, and five Sundays. This event occurs once every …
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Aug 16 2014
How about a War on War?
War Is People Too By Jeffrey Hutchins, 2014 It’s very interesting that Corporations are now legally invested with nearly all the same rights and protections as individual people. We have made Corporations the second androids: beings made out of non-living parts. The first android, of course, was Religion. Every person’s vision of God or …
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