US House Committee saves Israeli aid in foreign aid cut By Ran Dagoni, 21 July 11 12:13 … The US House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday cut the Obama administration’s $51 billion 2012 budget request for the State Department and foreign aid by $6.4 billion, but kept unchanged the $3 billion in military aid for Israel. Commentators …
Category: The Middle East
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Jul 25 2011
It could happen here
Anders Behring Breivik and the influence industry of rage By Eugene Robinson, Monday, July 25, 6:50 PM … The monster who admitted slaughtering at least 76 innocent victims in Norway was animated by the same blend of paranoia, xenophobia and alienation that fuels anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States. Yes, it could happen here.One …
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Jul 25 2011
We’re in a frightening place
The news coverage of the Norway mass-killings was fact-free conjecture By Charlie Brooker, Sunday 24 July 2011 22.07 BST … I went to bed in a terrible world and awoke inside a worse one. At the time of writing, details of the Norwegian atrocity are still emerging, although the identity of the perpetrator has now been …
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Jul 24 2011
A new twinkie defense
Was I Unfair to The Atlantic? By Matt Barganier, July 24, 2011 … On Friday, I included The Atlantic in a list of sources that “ran with the unsubstantiated Muslim-terrorist angle” immediately after the attacks in Norway. I was referring to a they-hate-us-for-our-freedoms piece about an alleged 2010 plot by three Muslims against Norwegian targets. …
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Jul 23 2011
The most meaningless word
The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness of “Terrorism” By Glenn Greenwald, Saturday, Jul 23, 2011 07:24 ET … (updated below) For much of the day yesterday, the featured headline on The New York Times online front page strongly suggested that Muslims were responsible for the attacks on Oslo; that led to definitive statements on …
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Jul 22 2011
State’s ad hoc foray
U.S. Blocks Oversight of Its Mercenary Army in Iraq By Spencer Ackerman, July 22, 2011 … By January 2012, the State Department will do something it’s never done before: command a mercenary army the size of a heavy combat brigade. That’s the plan to provide security for its diplomats in Iraq once the U.S. …
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Jul 22 2011
Boobs
‘Haboobs’ Stir Critics in Arizona By Marc Lacey, July 21, 2011 … PHOENIX — The massive dust storms that swept through central Arizona this month have stirred up not just clouds of sand but a debate over what to call them. The blinding waves of brown particles, the most recent of which hit Phoenix on …
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