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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 North America
Moving the Beached Whale of Public Opinion
Monday 30 April 2012
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“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. [...]
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 [...]
Jon Stewart and Iran
Tuesday 13 March 2012
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I watched NIAC’s Titra Parsi on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show. It was very kind of him to counter the warmongering, by inviting Titra Parsi of the National Iranian-American Council (or some such expansion of the acronym/abbreviation). However, I distinctly remember Stewart pushing for (uh, shall we say?) a focus, if not war, on Iran. [...]
The War of Terror Comes Home
Monday 12 March 2012
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It seems that a natural consequence of globalisation is the empire’s terror being imported back home. When 9/11 (the US one, not the Chilean one) happened, Robert Fisk said that it was the first time that an empire had been hit at its very heart.To me, from that day on, the lines between the empire’s [...]
Obama’s Risky Gamble
Monday 12 March 2012
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Over on Lobe Log, someone asked why Obama doesn’t speak out against the warmongering. Well, he has, in his own characteristic way: understated, on the edge of the abyss. But, still, here was my response: I believe it was Gareth Porter who explained Obama’s behaviour in this regard. The suggestion is that Obama is keeping [...]
