And finally the bad news. Marjorie Wright sent this very depressing piece by Philip Giraldi (also former CIA) last night. For those of you who don’t get moist with Armageddon-anticipation, reading Giraldi’s prediction (that Israel will try to force us into a war with Iran by August) will make your heart sink lower than a …
Category: War
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Dec 31 2009
On seeing Palestine as Cuba
This morning, a friend wrote this: Please don’t misunderstand me, largely because of [others], I now have much greater compassion for the plight of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. You-all have helped me see the other side of the coin, the one not easily available here because of the apparent pro-Israeli bias in our news …
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Aug 30 2009
Book review
I’m almost finished with Charles Pierce’s “Idiot America — How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free” (Doubleday, June 2009). Just read the chapter on the 9-11 fiasco and the “sexing up” of the Iraq war and I’m so angry right right now that I feel compelled to share the following links …
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Apr 27 2009
Tortured logic (a letter/editorial submission)
For the sake of argument, let’s suppose torture works… For the sake of argument, let’s also suppose that 9/11 was inevitable. Let’s suppose that it wasn’t a circus of errors and missed opportunities and hot pursuits that were allowed to grow cold. Let’s suppose that the CIA and the FBI were a model of harmonious …
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Feb 25 2009
Book review: The Faith
My suspicion, somewhat validated by the more critical articles I’ve read, is that Colson’s alarmist worldview stems in large part from what he sees as an Islamic encroachment on his prison ministry. He has become a darling of the right-wing “news” entertainment circuit — Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, etc. — by bashing gays, espousing unregulated capitalism, and hawking Bush’s …
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Feb 21 2009
Gideon Levy: Waltz with Bashir
Since this movie has been much talked about, on this list and among Oscar buzzers, today’s review by Gideon Levy in Haaretz offers a perspective I’ve not seen elsewhere: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1065552.html “…the film is infuriating, disturbing, outrageous and deceptive. It deserves an Oscar for the illustrations and animation – but a badge of shame for its …
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Jan 24 2009
A question
Something I have not seen or heard discussed during the rape of Gaza or its prologue… Haven’t there been all kinds of funds and research expended on anti-missile technologies? Weren’t American systems installed in Israel? Why, after years of harassment by the pea-shooters of Hamas, and the rockets of Hezbollah and Saddam before them, hasn’t …
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