January 2010

Obama confidant’s spine-chilling proposal

by Paul Woodward 01.16.2010

Obama confidant’s spine-chilling proposal By Glenn Greenwald, Salon, January 15, 2010 Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama’s closest confidants. Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama’s head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs where, among other things, he is responsible for “overseeing [...]

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Welcome to Hebron

by Paul Woodward 01.16.2010

Leila Sarsour, who is 17 years old, lives in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in Palestine. She has a dream that everyone can live in peace, but she and her schoolmates are exposed daily to harassment, violence and intimidation from Israeli settlers. For the Palestinian school girls in the city of Cordoba School in [...]

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Obama pledges aid to Haiti

by Paul Woodward 01.15.2010

Obama pledges aid to Haiti By Helene Cooper, New York Times, January 15, 2010 President Obama on Thursday promised $100 million along with more American troops for the relief effort in Haiti, vowing that the United States would stand with the impoverished nation as it grappled with the devastation of its capital city. The Pentagon [...]

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To be Israeli today

by Paul Woodward 01.15.2010

To be Israeli today By Larry Derfner, Jerusalem Post, January 13, 2010 To be Israeli today is to organize your thinking around the enemy. Without the enemy, you can’t understand the world or your place in it. Without the enemy, you don’t know what you want – except more money, which is the default goal [...]

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Turkish human rights group: Arrest Barak when he arrives here

by Paul Woodward 01.15.2010

Turkish human rights group: Arrest Barak when he arrives here By Daniel Edelson, Ynet, January 14, 2010 espite the intensifying crisis between Israel and Turkey, Defense Minister Ehud Barak is insisting to follow through with his scheduled plans to visit Turkey next week. However, on Thursday it became clear that an arrest warrant may await [...]

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Ex-IAEA chief injects life into Egypt’s politics

by Paul Woodward 01.15.2010

Ex-IAEA chief injects life into Egypt’s politics AP, January 14, 2010 The U.N.’s former nuclear chief has yet to return home to his native Egypt after almost a quarter century monitoring the world’s atomic programs, but the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner has already created the biggest political stir in his homeland in years by [...]

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Suicide attack reveals threat to Obama’s Afghanistan plan

by Paul Woodward 01.15.2010

Suicide attack reveals threat to Obama’s Afghanistan plan By Saeed Shah, McClatchy, January 14, 2010 The bombing has focused new attention on the Haqqani network, an Afghan insurgent group that U.S. intelligence officials said is based in North Waziristan, has ties to members of the Pakistani military’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency and probably played a key [...]

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Yemen clerics warn US to stay out or face jihad

by Paul Woodward 01.15.2010

Yemen clerics warn US to stay out or face jihad By Mohammed al Qadhi, The National, January 14, 2010 Yemen’s association of clerics warned yesterday they would call for jihad in the case of foreign military intervention amid growing concern that the United States might carry out direct strikes against al Qa’eda militants in the [...]

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Haiti, the devil and Pat Robertson

by Paul Woodward 01.14.2010

Haiti, the devil and Pat Robertson By David Waters, Washington Post, January 13, 2010 Pat Robertson is at it again. The purported Christian minister who suggested assassinating Venezuela leader Hugo Chavez and nuking the U.S. State Department, the reputed follower of Jesus who blamed the 9/11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina on pagans, abortionists, feminists, [...]

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Report: Turkey warns Lebanon that Israel may be planning attack

by Paul Woodward 01.14.2010

Report: Turkey warns Lebanon that Israel may be planning attack Haaretz, January 14, 2010 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan this week warned Lebanese leaders that Israel may be planning an attack on its northern neighbor, Lebanese sources told the London-based Arabic language daily A-Sharq al-Awsat on Thursday. At a meeting in Ankara with Lebanese [...]

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The meritocracy and Jewish kinship network

by Paul Woodward 01.14.2010

The meritocracy and Jewish kinship network By Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, January 13, 2010 A lot of people are talking about David Brooks’s distastefully-smug column in the Times yesterday about Jewish achievement, in which he says that we are 2 percent of the U.S. population and 25 percent of this and that. And that we get [...]

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Sharon’s real legacy – keeping the Arabs out of sight

by Paul Woodward 01.14.2010

Sharon’s real legacy – keeping the Arabs out of sight By Aluf Benn, Haaretz, January 13, 2010 Let’s assume the optimistic forecast by special U.S. envoy George Mitchell comes true and in two years the establishment of an independent Palestine is declared at a ceremony. The event will be broadcast on prime time, but most [...]

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Rawabi, and the American mission to civilize the West Bank

by Paul Woodward 01.14.2010

Rawabi, and the American mission to civilize the West Bank By Ahmed Moor, Mondoweiss, January 14, 2010 The Palestinian Authority, in coordination with the American government, is building a new settlement in the West Bank. This one is intended to provide 40,000 “Palestinians with homes in an American-style development.” The Huffington Post carries the whole [...]

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Regime change in Tehran?

by Paul Woodward 01.14.2010

Regime change in Tehran? By Dilip Hiro, TomDispatch, January 12, 2010 The dramatic images of protestors in Iran fearlessly facing — and sometimes countering — the brutal attacks of the regime’s security forces rightly gain the admiration and sympathy of viewers in the West. They also leave many Westerners assuming that this is a preamble [...]

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Brzezinski on Afghanistan

by Paul Woodward 01.14.2010

Brzezinski on Afghanistan Real News, January 12, 2010 Share

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George W. Obama

by Paul Woodward 01.14.2010

George W. Obama By Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, January 12, 2010 Before President Obama, it was grimly accurate to write, as I often did in the Voice, that George W. Bush came into the presidency with no discernible background in constitutional civil liberties or any acquaintance with the Constitution itself. Accordingly, he turned the “war [...]

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Israel’s hopeless quest for respect

by Paul Woodward 01.13.2010

Israel’s hopeless quest for respect By Paul Woodward, War in Context, January 13, 2010 As Israeli-Turkish relations hit a new low with the threat that Turkey might withdraw its ambassador, Israel’s foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said he expects Israel to be treated with “dignity and respect” by Turkey. The sign of respect Lieberman is looking [...]

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Iranian scientist killed by bomb had opposition links

by Paul Woodward 01.12.2010

Iranian scientist killed by bomb had opposition links By Richard Spencer, The Telegraph, January 12, 2010 An Iranian nuclear physicist with ties to the reformist movement led by the opposition leader, Mir Hossein Moussavi, has been killed by a bomb near his home. Dr Moussad Ali-Mohammadi was leaving his house on his way to work [...]

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UPDATED: Report: Iran slows down nuclear program in gesture to West

by Paul Woodward 01.12.2010

UPDATED: Report: Iran slows down nuclear program in gesture to West By Yossi Melman, Haaretz, January 11, 2010 Iran has suspended its uranium enrichment program for two months, Iranian media sources reported on Monday, saying the move was meant as a gesture of good will toward Western powers. The report has not been confirmed by [...]

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Israeli robots remake battlefield

by Paul Woodward 01.12.2010

Israeli robots remake battlefield By Charles Levinson, Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2010 Israel is developing an army of robotic fighting machines that offers a window onto the potential future of warfare. Sixty years of near-constant war, a low tolerance for enduring casualties in conflict, and its high-tech industry have long made Israel one of [...]

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How I fought the intelligence turf wars — and lost

by Paul Woodward 01.12.2010

How I fought the intelligence turf wars — and lost By Ron Capps, Foreign Policy, January 11, 2010 In recent weeks, following the shocks of the Christmas Day bomber and the Dec. 30 attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan, observers have tried to understand why U.S. intelligence failed so badly. President Barack Obama argued [...]

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War’s fury no longer pauses for Afghan winter

by Paul Woodward 01.12.2010

War’s fury no longer pauses for Afghan winter By Rod Nordland, New York Times, January 12, 2010 Afghanistan’s high mountains and harsh weather once meant that winter was a respite from much of the war’s violence, but as the deaths of six Western soldiers in three separate attacks on Monday show, this winter is proving [...]

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Al Qaeda’s shadowland

by Paul Woodward 01.12.2010

Al Qaeda’s shadowland By Edmund J Hill, New York Times, January 12, 2010 Americans are scrambling to understand Yemen, where Al Qaeda has recently surged and the Christmas Day plot against Northwest Flight 253 was hatched. It’s not easy. Yemen has 5,000 years of history, complicated politics and daunting economic challenges. But we’ve made it [...]

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How the US military is betraying its own wounded

by Paul Woodward 01.12.2010

How the US military is betraying its own wounded By Amanda Carpenter, Washington Times, January 12, 2010 In 2007, a high-ranking Navy doctor sent a sobering warning to colleagues: The service may be discharging soldiers for misconduct when in fact they are merely displaying symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. By doing so, the anonymous doctor [...]

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