Changing the way oil drives US policy By PJ Crowley, Saturday 9 July 2011 21.10 BST … Twenty years after we went to war over oil and ten years after 9/11, America has still not connected the dots. This is not about the intelligence community, but American politics, policy and behaviour. We still don’t see …
Category: War
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Jul 10 2011
Committed to the rule
My lost boy John Walker Lindh Frank Lindh, Sunday 10 July 2011 … John Phillip Walker Lindh, my son, was raised a Roman Catholic, but converted to Islam when he was 16 years old. He has an older brother and a younger sister. John is scholarly and devout, devoted to his family, and blessed with …
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Jul 07 2011
One man’s terrorist…
Here’s a bit of modern Israel’s ancient history, excerpted from the August 13, 1949 issue of The New Yorker (thanks, Børre). This fascinating paragraph from “Letter from Tel Aviv” begins on page 59: … “The terrible thing about terror,” said my young intellectual German friend, “is that it works. We did not like the terrorists …
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Jul 07 2011
None of this is new
The Road to “All Muslims are Terrorists” By Gefilte, 07 July 2011 … It’s been travelled before. Aside from the fact that real democracies don’t persecute their minorities, Jews are reminded in many pieces of scripture to never forget when we were “strangers in a strange land” (see the book of Exodus). Maybe this is …
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Jul 04 2011
And they that wasted us
… … Do the faithful need a new National Anthem? By Martha Woodroof, 09:34 PM ET, 07/02/2011 … … Oh what a patriotic tempest a small Anabaptist Indiana teapot of a college has provoked: … Goshen College Board of Directors ask for alternative to playing the national anthem GOSHEN, Ind. — The Goshen College Board …
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Jul 04 2011
Make the bastard scream
The blood of Dresden By pulsemedia.org, June 25, 2011 at 10:08 pm … Following is an extract from Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut in which he describes the scenes of ‘obscene brutality’ he witnessed as a prisoner of war in Dresden which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. … It was a routine speech we …
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Jun 30 2011
Well, well
From one of the Arab world’s most insightful and eloquent political spokesmen — perhaps his best ever! Rami Khouri highlights a (potentially) very significant and promising new direction being taken by some influential elements of the Palestinian national movement — one that all of us have been hoping for a very long time would eventually emerge to establish once and …
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