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Jesus Was an Arab
Mescaline CatechismDanny Schecter says, on Al Jazeera: Occupy Wall Street seems to be banking on a general strike it hopes to pull off on May Day. Not a few political observers worry that calling for a massive shut down at this point is premature – and not the same as having the organisational network to pull [...]
Browsing Posts in The West
Moving the Beached Whale of Public Opinion
Monday 30 April 2012
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Ayatollah Fu Manchu
Tuesday 17 April 2012
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Over on Lobe Log, Ali Gharib responds to some New York Times article that dutifully pushes war on Iran, and groups all Shias as systemic liars that can’t be trusted. Here is the comment I posted: Hmm! A rather sedate response to what is essentially an image of a glaring, turbaned, hook-nosed darky about to [...]
“A real race for a meaningless post”
Tuesday 10 April 2012
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Back in 2005, Patrick Clawson, of the Israel mouthpiece WINEP (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy), dismissed the Iranian presidential election as “a real race for a meaningless post” ¹. I wrote at the time that the irony² had escaped all of them that this was how the US elections had been described–e.g. by [...]
US Capitalism: Off the Cliff!
Thursday 5 April 2012
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On Chris Hayes’ show, Up, William Black is criticizing the recent JOBS Act. It seems like the US Congress is legislating to repeat the same thing that happened in the debt market, but this time with respect to company start-ups. They are rolling back some of the post-Enron regulations which were meant to protect investors. [...]
Oil, the Left’s Favourite Culprit for War
Tuesday 3 April 2012
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Back when the previous American war on Iraq started, there were cries of “No war for oil!” coming from the Western Left. It was the culprit they were comfortable with. Nowadays, though, AIPAC‘s and the US media‘s push is so shrill that even the Left is no longer pointing accusatory fingers at oil. They’re like [...]
The Dirty Bombs of Fallujah
Wednesday 28 March 2012
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Watching Feurat Alani’s documentary “Fallujah, a Lost Generation?” on RT, about the effects of Depleted Uranium bombarded onto Iraq’s Fallujah, by Americans, I am reminded of similar stories about Basra. Basra’s collection of deformed babies came about after the first US war in Iraq, but Fallujah’s fate seems even more horrific. Fallujah’s seem to have [...]
Wag the Dog, Then Blame It!
Wednesday 28 March 2012
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Glenn Greenwald takes on some journalistic pod-person working at NPR. He blames her for being uncritical, and routinely accepting government officials’ claims about Iran. However, in the past he had correctly observed that, in the current push for war, the media is ahead of the government. Here, this journalistic cog is merely seeking those sources [...]
The Crisis of Peter Beinart
Tuesday 27 March 2012
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The American Conservative is carrying a great article by Scott McConnell on Peter Beinart’s much vaunted new book, The Crisis of Zionism. Among other things, McConnell argues that other actors than American Jews have to step-in in order to solve the problems arising from Israel/Palestine. Here is the comment I posted there, opening with a [...]
Jewish Vote, and Christian Zionists
Monday 26 March 2012
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The Real News tackles the much-talked-about “Jewish vote“, and Florida swingery, which is often used to explain why major presidential candidates of the planet’s superpower step over each other to pledge allegiance to a foreign country’s needs. It is highly informative, includes contributions from Max Blumenthal and Phil Weiss of Mondoweiss, and addresses the tacit [...]
Apple, Chris Hayes and God
Sunday 25 March 2012
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Chris Hayes is god! Here he is, in a stellar handling of the Mike Daisey Apple-Steve-Jobs-Foxconn-workers-NPR controversy: It is why ‘The AGony and the Ecstacy of Steve Jobs’ was so powerful: because it forced us to recognize there are actual human beings with private lives and hopes and dreams and feelings and ailments and families [...]
