December 2009

Washington can give an Israeli attack on Iran the red light

by Paul Woodward 12.01.2009

Washington can give an Israeli attack on Iran the red light By Trita Parsi, Huffington Post, November 29, 2009 On August 2, 1990, almost a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Iron Curtain divide, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Within months, the George H. W. Bush administration carefully assembled a [...]

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Omar Barghouti and George Fletcher debate BDS

by Paul Woodward 12.01.2009

Omar Barghouti and George Fletcher debate BDS By Adam Horowitz, Mondoweiss, November 30, 2009 At the beginning of November Omar Barghouti and George Fletcher debated BDS at Columbia University. The event was moderated by Laura Flanders from GRITtv, who posted this great video of the event. Check it out. [continued...] The battle for Israel’s soul [...]

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My compatriots’ vote to ban minarets is fuelled by fear

by Paul Woodward 12.01.2009

My compatriots’ vote to ban minarets is fuelled by fear By Tariq Ramadan, The Guardian, November 29, 2009 It wasn’t meant to go this way. For months we had been told that the efforts to ban the construction of minarets in Switzerland were doomed. The last surveys suggested around 34% of the Swiss population would [...]

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