Category: War

Our crime was looking like the people

We Japanese Americans must not forget our wartime internment By George Takei, Friday 27 April 2012 15.15 EDT … Seventy years ago, US soldiers bearing bayoneted rifles came marching up to the front door of our family’s home in Los Angeles, ordering us out. Our crime was looking like the people who had bombed Pearl …

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One page at a time

The Passion of Bradley Manning By Kelley B. Vlahos, April 03, 2012 … Army Pfc. Bradley Manning — the man accused of blowing a whistle so loud it’s still reverberating through the world two years after the fact — will return before a judge for his court-martial proceedings this month. Manning, 24, faces 22 charges, …

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Astoundingly naïve

Deir Yassin: No passing over history By Yousef Munayyer, 09 Apr 2012 16:52 … On April 9, 1948, scores of Palestinian civilians were massacred at the village of Deir Yassin through co-operative efforts of Yishuv forces like the Irgun, Lehi and the Haganah. The Zionist narrative on the events of 1948 and the Nakba – …

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Alternative to Futility

Elton Trueblood on the Quaker experiment: a continuous ferment By Monsieur d’Nalgar … (Note: this is adapted from an email to my pastor written in July 2006.)  About a week ago, I found a small book (or it found me) by Elton Trueblood.  Written in 1948, it was titled “Alternative to Futility.”  I met Dr. Trueblood in …

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What must be said

Was gesagt werden muss Das Gedicht von Günter Grass, 04.04.2012, 12:03 … Warum schweige ich, verschweige zu lange, was offensichtlich ist und in Planspielen geübt wurde, an deren Ende als Überlebende wir allenfalls Fußnoten sind. Es ist das behauptete Recht auf den Erstschlag, der das von einem Maulhelden unterjochte und zum organisierten Jubel gelenkte iranische Volk …

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A load of old cobblers

Watch us lead the UN donkey up the Khyber By Robert Fisk, Saturday 31 March 2012 … So back to THAT BLOODY WAR. I mean not the Syrian one – where we’re going to stay hands off – or the Libyan one (where we were hands on, but not touching the ground). Nor the Iraqi …

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Because Israel permanently occupies

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwOpDuLEVXU[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwOpDuLEVXU Rethinking Zionism By Peter Beinart, Wednesday, Mar 28, 2012 3:30 PM 19:26:27 CDT … I remember walking back with my grandmother one night from synagogue, past the loquat trees of Sea Point, South Africa, the most beautiful Jewish ghetto in the world. I was a kid, and boasting about the United States, the …

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