Category: War

“It’s me…It’s me.”

Ukraine, 1942. What are we seeing? By Robert Fisk, Saturday November 19 2011 … In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, a Polish postal official working for the resistance opened a letter sent by a German soldier to his family. Inside was a photograph which so shocked the man that he forwarded it to the Polish underground; …

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Company came

Why the West is Demonizing Iran By Stuart Littlewood, November 17, 2011 … When new recruits join British Petroleum (BP) they are fed romantic tales about how the company came into being. William Knox D’Arcy, a Devon man, studied law and, after emigrating to Australia, made a fortune from the Mount Morgan gold-mining operations in …

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We teach life, sir

By Rafeef Ziadah, London, 12.11.11 [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtM[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtM Rafeef Ziadah is a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist. Her debut CD Hadeel is dedicated to Palestinian youth, who still fly kites in the face of F16 bombers, who still remember the names if their villages in Palestine and still hear the sound of Hadeel (cooing of …

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The revolution is in progress

A new Israel in the making By Gideon Levy, 02:21 13.11.11 … One day not long from now we will wake up to a different kind of country, the country that’s now in the making. It won’t look like the country we know, which already has its share of flaws, distortions and ills. And when …

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One of the oldest tricks

Why do the US media believe the worst about Iran? By Brian Whitaker, Wednesday 9 November 2011 10.36 EST … “One of the oldest tricks in the run-up to a war is to spread terrifying stories of things that the enemy may be about to do. Government officials plant these tales, journalists water them and …

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Kindred covens

Rosie the Riveter and the Ironies of Bentonville By Harold Meyerson, November 11, 2011 … When the doors swung open this morning on Alice Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas—funded to the tune of $1.4 billion by the Walton Family Foundation—one of its prize possessions was Norman Rockwell’s iconic World War II-era …

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A fashion appendage

Do those who flaunt the poppy on their lapels know that they mock the war dead? By Robert Fisk, Saturday 05 November 2011 … I turned on the television in my Damascus hotel room to witness a dreary sight: all the boys and girls of BBC World wearing their little poppies again. Bright red they …

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