Dec 18 2011
Merry Christmas (or click here for your choice of alternative winter holidays) to all, from high atop the Fidel Castro observation tower, overlooking the United Nations penal facility for war criminals (formerly known as Guantanamo Bay detention camp)… Note: This is a slight adaptation (for the holidays) of an earlier work titled “Spandau Reborn,” a …
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Dec 16 2011
Last Post in Iraq: this is the death knell of the American empire By George Galloway, Thursday 15 December 2011 09.30 EST … So the Yanks are going home. Apart from the thousands of their servicemen and women whose lifeblood they are leaving in the sands of Iraq, and the tens of thousands too maimed …
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Dec 15 2011
Peace on earth? The end of the Iraq war By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, 11:01 AM ET, 12/15/2011 … “Peace on earth!” (Luke 2:14) heralded the angels, announcing the birth of Jesus. It is appropriate, in this Advent season, when Christians wait for the announcement of the birth of Jesus, that we also receive the formal announcement …
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Dec 14 2011
Newt Gingrich may be able to occupy Palestine, but Israel can’t By Bradley Burston, 15:17 13.12.11 … Speaker Gingrich, if you’re serious about becoming president, it’s time that you got to know us a bit better. Let’s start with the Occupation, our 44-year-long experiment in re-inventing the Palestinian people. This is what you need to …
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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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