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Thursday 02nd September 2010
Many of these Islam-bashers and apologists for ethnic cleansing in Palestine have championed the misbegotten wars that have already killed hundreds of thousands of Muslims and ruined innumerable more lives. But they still present themselves as virtuous and lonely warriors, indefatigably rooting out the internal enemies of western civilisation, who tend to be either Muslims sinisterly reluctant to embrace the true American patriot's worldview, or politically correct liberal-lefties too scared to hear, let alone speak, the real truth about Islam.
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Thursday 02nd September 2010
With the odds stacked so strongly in Israel's favour, Palestinians rightly view the sham US talks with dread. Where once Palestinians fought against dispossession and for their right to reparation and return, today's browbeaten leadership has settled for a set of aspirations that bear little relation to rights or justice. It is this defeated leadership, reportedly under US pressure to attend or have Palestinian Authority funding withdrawn, which will take part in the talks.
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Thursday 02nd September 2010
General Petraeus believes that the war's "ultimate goal" in Afghanistan is the "reconciliation" of the ultra-corrupt Hamid Karzai government with the Taliban. This in fact means that while "favorable" conditions are not created on the ground, government-sanctioned drug trafficking mafias and US defense contractors will continue to make - literally and metaphorically - a killing. As for the PR-savvy Petraeus, he will pull out all stops to sell his brand of Afghan surge to Americans as some sort of "victory" - as he managed to sell the rebranded Iraq war. And as for the (rebranded) umbrella of fighters conveniently labeled "Taliban", who seem to eat surges for breakfast, they will bide their time, Pashtun-style, and trust Allah to eventually hand them victory - the real thing, and not a PR fantasy.
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Wednesday 01st September 2010
In Iraq the casus belli was a lie, perpetrated by George Bush and his meek amanuensis, Tony Blair. Saddam Hussein was accused of association with 9/11, and of plotting further attacks with long-range weapons of "mass destruction". Since this was revealed as untrue, the fallback deployed by apologists for Bush and Blair is that Saddam was a bad man and so toppling him was good. The truth is that the illegal invasion was blinded by a conviction in its neo-imperial omnipotence. However much people delude themselves, the west is still run by leaders, especially generals, drenched in the glory of past triumphs: leaders who refuse to believe that other nations have a right to order their own affairs. The awfulness of Iraq in 2003 was not so grotesque as to be the west's business – even had the west been able to build the pro-western, pro-Israeli, secular, capitalist utopia of neocon fantasy.
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Wednesday 01st September 2010
Two Yemeni men who flew from Chicago to Amsterdam and were detained Monday in the Netherlands on suspicion of planning a terrorist act do not appear to be involved in any conspiracy and did not know each other before they were arrested, according to two U.S. law enforcement officials. The officials said suspicions that the men were involved in an attempt to test the security of the aviation system with fake bombs appeared misplaced. Rather, they said, the two became the focus of an international terrorism scare as a result of a series of odd events.
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Wednesday 01st September 2010
Israeli Rabbis defend a book's shocking religious defense of killing Arabs and Palestinians. The rabbinical guidebook for killing non-Jews has exposed the power a bunch of genocidal theocrats wield over the government.
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Wednesday 01st September 2010
"As we contemplate the enormity of the tragedy we unleashed in Iraq, these acts of contrition by clueless neocons are more than merely irritating: they are intolerable. There has to be some penalty for being so wrong – and yet there is none. Far from it, these people are being rewarded with honors and prestige...Who will rid us of these omnipresent self-regarding conscience-less war-bots? They still dominate the op ed pages of the nation’s newspapers, and they’re all over television, solemnly averring that our moral duty is to police the world, and sagely advising that our godlike powers are equal to the task. Soon enough this coalition of the clueless will be telling us that Iran must be our next target: that we can and must “liberate” the Persians, who are just waiting for the slightest signal from Uncle Sam to rise up and smite their oppressors" writes Justin Raimondo.
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Tuesday 31st August 2010
The “compromise” floated by some Democrats and their allies is ill-conceived. To argue that America’s Muslims are complicit in terror two blocks from Ground Zero but innocent “at a distance” is to endorse a noose of prejudice that has already expanded nationwide. Using the coded language of “wisdom,” “wounded sites,” and “strong emotions” only lends the lynch mob a ready supply of rope.
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Monday 30th August 2010
Conservatives, generally, are far more adept at politically reframing concepts by giving them snappy-but-misleading nicknames than liberals. "Loony left". "Boom-and-bust". "Flip-flop". "Ground Zero mosque". All simplifications or outright lies – but they worked. Like advertisers, the right seems breezily unconcerned about the truth of the slogan, provided it rings up a sale. They slap the words "fun-size" on the packaging and wait for the public to buy it.
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Monday 30th August 2010
Trees felled by so-called illegal loggers - an infamous "timber mafia" that has representatives in the Pakistan Parliament in Islamabad and connections right to the top of government and the military - are stacked in the innumerable nullahs [steep narrow valleys], gorges and ravines leading into the main rivers. From there they are fed into the legal trade, earning the mafia billions of dollars yearly.
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