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
Resurrection, reinvention and linguistics
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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Sep 14 2014
The harvest to come #2
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 …
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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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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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Aug 06 2014
Those who are left behind
As well as killing hundreds of Gaza’s children, Israel has destroyed the lives of thousands more By Yara Hawari, Wednesday 6 August 2014 As with all wars, the war in Gaza is being measured by its dead. According to a UN report published three days ago, nearly 1800 Palestinians have died in this latest …
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