Category: War

Dismal journey from defeat and humiliation

The three things that always accompany occupation By Robert Fisk, Sunday 23 June 2013   On 20th November 2001, in the Afghan embassy in Islamabad, the Taliban stamped into my passport their very last visa, number 001518, valid only for Kandahar and printed on a paper of varying shades of green. At the top were …

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A kind of paranoid art

NSA to Americans: ‘All your data are belong to us!’ By Dan Hind, 10 Jun 2013 18:19   A few days ago, the Guardian published details of the US National Security Administration’s PRISM programme. We now know that the NSA is able to access personal data stored by Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Paltalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL …

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The question of why Israel rubs

Why do people hate Israel? (a self-test) By Bradley Burston, May.28, 2013 | 8:15 PM   Every year, the BBC World Service publishes a Country Ratings opinion survey, meant to indicate which of the world’s nations are among the most popular, and which the most disliked. In 2013, as in years past, more than 26,000 …

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We live in the earthly one

An Open Letter to Elie Wiesel By Avner Inbar and Assaf Sharon, May 27, 2010   In a recent public letter to President Obama, Elie Wiesel urged the President not to “pressure” Israel to cease settlement activity in Jerusalem. According to Wiesel: For me, the Jew that I am, Jerusalem is above politics. It is …

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Driven by deeply sexist and patriarchal ideology

The dark side of home schooling: creating soldiers for the culture war By Katherine Stewart, Wednesday 8 May 2013 07.00 EDT   Several decades ago, political activists on the religious right began to put together an “ideology machine”. Home schooling was a big part of the plan. The idea was to breed and “train up” …

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It hurts to write this sentence

Behind the use of drones is a complacent belief that murdering Muslims is always justifiable By Yasmin Alibhai Brown, Sunday 28 April 2013   First, read this unconditional acceptance of facts that cannot be denied nor excused. Islamicist terrorism has inflicted atrocities and diffused panic and amorphous, long-term anxiety from east to west, south to …

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Somewhere near the very bottom

How to debunk George W. Bush’s attempts at revisionism By Alex Seitz-Wald, Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 08:00 AM CDT   Every dog goes to heaven and every former president should get a shot at repairing his legacy, especially when it’s as tattered as George W. Bush’s. With the opening of his presidential library and museum …

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