Jamie Doward writes in
guardian.co.uk on the passing of Tony Judt at age 62:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/07/historian-tony-judt-dies or
http://bit.ly/8XIFF3 or
http://tinyurl.com/386pzjr
Tony Judt, the British writer, historian and professor who was recently described as having the “liveliest mind in New York”,…
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Robert Fisk writes about the latest skirmish along the Lebanon-Israel border, the latest prelude to the next bloody chapter of Israel’s never-ending bullying in the Middle East schoolyard (with America’s blessings, of course)…
Can a tree start a Middle East…
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In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Matthew 2:18 (KJV)
Jonathon Cook writes from Nazareth. His August 2, 2010 article,…
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Politics & US foreign policy: Pakistan (or Mollywood On My Mind)
It seems to me that the keystone to present (=Obama) policy in ‘Af-Pak’ is the very nature of politics in Pakistan. And the question there is … which linguistic…
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Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah ‘worse than Hiroshima’
By Patrick Cockburn, Saturday, 24 July 2010:
Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed…
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Attacking Muslims Is In Vogue Again Among Conservatives
By Jason Linkins, huffingtonpost.com, 07-21-10 01:10 PM (updated 07-21-10 08:54 PM)
…Glenn Beck has decided that he cannot tolerate the thought of American Muslims riding around on rollercoasters for fun! This is…
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Bad translation makes fundamentalists of us all
By Marie Dhumières, guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 July 2010 16.00 BST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/jul/20/translation-arabic-language-fundamentalist-muslim or
http://bit.ly/a2gGGW or
http://tinyurl.com/2fjebba
I was recently watching the Spanish documentary
To Shoot an Elephant, about the Israeli attacks on Gaza…
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