Obama Crushes the Neocons By Michael Tomasky, November 25th 20135:45 am Well, the ayatollah appears to have lent his provisional support to the historic U.S.-Iran accord announced Saturday night. In a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said the deal “can be the basis for further intelligent actions.” Now we just …
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Nov 17 2013
On the wilder shores of American Christianity
George W Bush’s new ‘crusade’: converting Jews to Christianity By Andrew Brown, November 14, 2013 Some people think George W Bush did as much as he could to bring about Armageddon with his earlier interventions in the Middle East. But not the man himself, apparently. He has signed up for a fundraising event for …
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Nov 13 2013
Enamored of all the dust
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
I didn’t do anything wrong
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
He who lied us into a war
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
The ongoing business of slaughtering the other
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
The US chose to kill my mother
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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