November 2010

Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between

by News Sources 11.20.2010

Newly released by Just World Books: With Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between, El-Haddad takes us into the life and world of a busy Palestinian journalist who is both covering the story of Gaza and living it—very intensely. This book is El-Haddad’s self-curated choice of the best of her writings from December [...]

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Evolving understanding of Stuxnet

by Paul Woodward 11.20.2010

Reporting on the latest findings on the design of the Stuxnet malware which targeted Iran’s nuclear program, the New York Times says that Ralph Langner — a German software engineer who has been one of the leading investigators — has identified two forms of attack directed at different targets. In a statement Friday on his [...]

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U.S. and Israel: still no consensus on pressuring Iran

by News Sources 11.20.2010

Tony Karon writes: An open disagreement between Israel and the Pentagon in recent weeks has highlighted the dilemma President Barack Obama faces in making progress on Iran. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday poured cold water on last week’s suggestion by Israeli Prime Minister that the only way Iran can be stopped from acquiring nuclear [...]

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An American bribe that stinks of appeasement

by News Sources 11.20.2010

Robert Fisk writes: In any other country, the current American bribe to Israel, and the latter’s reluctance to accept it, in return for even a temporary end to the theft of somebody else’s property would be regarded as preposterous. Three billion dollars’ worth of fighter bombers in return for a temporary freeze in West Bank [...]

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Israel must choose between Enlightenment and Romanticism

by News Sources 11.19.2010

Carlo Strenger and Menachem Lorberbaum write: Political discourse in Israel is governed by the presumption that Israel needs to decide whether it will be a Western state or a Jewish state. Ostensibly the question is: should Israel be more Jewish or more democratic? And the subtext is that this a choice between a state governed [...]

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Intifada – Doc Jazz

by News Sources 11.19.2010

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Hitchens on 9/11

by News Sources 11.19.2010

From an interview of Christopher Hitchens by Australia’s ABC TV (the full interview can be viewed on broadband here on Windows Media Player): TONY JONES: So let’s talk briefly about that day September 11, 2001. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: Yes. TONY JONES: You described it very tellingly soon afterwards, if not on the day, as it being [...]

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Hitchens on mortality

by News Sources 11.19.2010

Christopher Hitchens interviewed by Australia’s ABC TV (the full interview can be viewed on broadband here on Windows Media Player): TONY JONES: I want to ask you what you think about Martin Amis’ idea that writers like you must actually believe in some form of life after death because not all of you, not all [...]

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Shock over senior UK Jewish leader’s Bibi criticism

by News Sources 11.19.2010

Britain’s TheJC.com reports: One of British Jewry’s most senior leaders this week shattered a longstanding taboo by publicly criticising Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the peace process, voicing moral reservations about some of Israel’s policies, and calling for criticism of Israel to be voiced freely throughout the community. Mick Davis, chairman of both the [...]

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American supremacy

by Paul Woodward 11.19.2010

Matt Miller writes: Does anyone else think there’s something a little insecure about a country that requires its politicians to constantly declare how exceptional it is? A populace in need of this much reassurance may be the surest sign of looming national decline. American exceptionalism is now the central theme of Sarah Palin’s speeches. The [...]

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The fog of containment

by News Sources 11.19.2010

Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett write: In the coming weeks, the United States may well be joining a new round of nuclear negotiations with Iran. But, rather than working to promote their success, most commentators seem to be consumed with explaining their anticipated failure. And their follow-up policy prescriptions seem designed to do more [...]

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The Return of Ghosts: Debating the rise of Geert Wilders and the far-right at the Nexus Symposium

by News Sources 11.19.2010

Max Blumenthal writes: I spent last week in Amsterdam, where I participated in the “Return of Ghosts” symposium of the Nexus Institute, a discussion/debate about the resurgence of neo-fascism in Europe and anti-democratic trends in the West. Besides providing a forum for debating European politics, the symposium was the occasion for the first public appearance [...]

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Will Miral be this generation’s Exodus?

by News Sources 11.19.2010

Adam Horowitz writes: Today, I saw Julian Schnabel’s new film Miral. It won’t be arriving in theaters in the US until next March, so it will be awhile until we see what effect it has, but my initial impression was amazement at what I was watching. Here was a film following many of the conventions [...]

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What we need to learn from Lawrence of Arabia

by News Sources 11.19.2010

Michael Korda, author of a new biographer of TE Lawrence, Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia, writes: Lawrence fought against the Sykes-Picot Agreement, attempted to undermine it, drove the Arabs on in a desperate race to capture Damascus and declare an independent Arab state before the British Army could get there, argued [...]

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Karen Greenberg: How at risk is the justice system?

by TomDispatch 11.18.2010

Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com The presumption of innocence may be slowly dying in the courtrooms where our terror trials are being held, as Karen Greenberg, executive director of the Center on Law and Security at NYU Law School and author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days, points out in today’s post. Here’s [...]

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Do neoconservatives really care about the Iranian opposition?

by News Sources 11.18.2010

Ali Gharib writes: The rumblings of the largely underground Iranian Green Movement encourage neoconservative pundit Reuel Marc Gerecht. “I think it’s the most amazing intellectual second revolution…that we’ve seen in the Middle East,” he told a packed briefing room at Bloomberg’s D.C. headquarters last month. But even as he called on President Barack Obama to [...]

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Obama’s dubious Mideast bet

by News Sources 11.18.2010

Tony Karon writes: In the grand poker game of Middle East peacemaking, everyone around the table is wondering just what cards President Barack Obama is holding. That’s because the President has placed a potentially ruinous bet on what can be achieved over the 90 days of the partial settlement freeze he appears to have persuaded [...]

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The origin of America’s intellectual vacuum

by News Sources 11.18.2010

Chris Hedges writes: The blacklisted mathematics instructor Chandler Davis, after serving six months in the Danbury federal penitentiary for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), warned the universities that ousted him and thousands of other professors that the purges would decimate the country’s intellectual life. “You must welcome dissent; you must [...]

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Israeli Rabbi: ‘Jews should make the Arabs flee’

by News Sources 11.18.2010

The Independent reports: First they threatened to burn his house down. Then they pinned leaflets to his front door, denouncing him as a Jewish traitor. But Eli Tzavieli, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, is defiant. His only “crime” is to rent out his rooms to three Arab students attending the college in Safed, a religious city [...]

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The myth of American pressure

by News Sources 11.18.2010

Osamah Khalil writes: Recent reports that the administration of US President Barack Obama offered Israel a series of incentives to continue its limited ten-month moratorium on settlement building have sparked an outcry among Palestinians and their supporters. Although the concessions for halting the construction of new settlements for only ninety days are unprecedented, Washington’s inability [...]

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Nick Turse: off-base America

by TomDispatch 11.17.2010

Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com Last year, it was Kuwait, Qatar, and Iraq.  This year, it’s Germany, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.  Next year, it could easily be Afghanistan, Pakistan, Diego Garcia, Bahrain, and Turkey.  Or of course they could choose to play in Japan (with a special stop in Okinawa), South Korea, [...]

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Guantánamo Bay detainees to be paid compensation by UK government

by News Sources 11.17.2010

The Guardian reports: The [British] government will announce today that it will pay millions of pounds in compensation to former Guantánamo Bay detainees following weeks of negotiations between lawyers for the government and the former prisoners. Ministers appear to have decided on the advice of the security services that they could not afford to risk [...]

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“We had to destroy [the villages] to make them safe”

by News Sources 11.17.2010

Hundreds and maybe thousands of Afghan homes are being bulldozed, blown up or hit by missile strikes in the effort to drive the Taliban out of the Kandahar region. As well as individual houses, whole villages have been destroyed. “We had to destroy them to make them safe,” the district governor, Shah Muhammed Ahmadi, is [...]

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The new rules: globalization’s massive demographic bet

by News Sources 11.17.2010

Thomas PM Barnett writes: By calling the Chinese out explicitly on their currency manipulation in his concluding address to the G-20 summit last week, President Barack Obama may have torpedoed his relationship with Beijing for the remainder of what China’s bosses most certainly now hope is his first and only term. Burdened by a Republican-controlled, [...]

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