Nov 13 2013
First we’ll take Washington By Zvi Bar’el, Nov. 13, 2013 2:13 AM If they don’t let us bomb Iran, we’ll bomb the United States. That seems to be the new Israeli strategy in the face of the Iranian nuclear threat. That was the strategy in the Marx Brothers’ movie ”Duck Soup,” in which the …
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Nov 13 2013
Malala and Nabila: worlds apart By Murtaza Hussain, 01 Nov 2013 09:57 On October 24, 2012 a Predator drone flying over North Waziristan came upon eight-year-old Nabila Rehman, her siblings, and their grandmother as they worked in a field beside their village home. Her grandmother, Momina Bibi, was teaching the children how to pick …
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Nov 08 2013
Poppycock – or why remembrance rituals make me see red By Robert Fisk, Thursday 7 November 2013 On the briefest of visits to London, I was appalled to notice that our television presenters and politicians and dignitaries have almost all resorted to stereotype by wearing those bloody poppies again – even though I suspect …
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Nov 05 2013
Imploding the Myth of Israel By Chris Hedges, Nov 4, 2013 Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that rivals the brutality and racism of apartheid South Africa. Its democracy—which was always exclusively for Jews—has been …
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Oct 26 2013
Please tell me, Mr President, why a US drone assassinated my mother By Rafiq ur Rehman, Friday 25 October 2013 09.00 EDT The last time I saw my mother, Momina Bibi, was the evening before Eid al-Adha. She was preparing my children’s clothing and showing them how to make sewaiyaan, a traditional sweet made …
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Oct 26 2013
Israel as a Totem for Jewish Identity By Lisa Goldman, Oct 24, 2013 6:26 PM EDT Jews are smarter than everyone else. A Chinese woman who visits a synagogue is surely shopping for a Jewish husband. Pakistan has “managed to produce absolutely nothing” in its entire history [besides nuclear weapons]. A two-state …
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Oct 13 2013
Rand Paul’s strategic Islamophobia By Alex Pareene, Friday, Oct 11, 2013 12:57 PM CDT For normal Americans, the annual Values Voters Summit is an opportunity to take a look at the Republican Party and be appalled and amused at how vehemently anti-modernity and hysterically bigoted it remains despite basically all demographic trends. For Republican …
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