November 2010

Dahieh: flashpoint of the colonial and anti-colonial struggle

by News Sources 11.03.2010

Rami G Khouri writes: Who would have thought that a gynecologist’s office in the Hizbullah-dominated southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh would be the symbolic place where the colonial and anti-colonial struggles of the past century would reach their confrontational peak and bring to a head this long-simmering war? Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s call Thursday night [...]

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Knesset member Haneen Zoabi: “No chance” for two-state solution

by News Sources 11.03.2010

Ali Abunimah reports: There is now “no chance” for a two-state solution in Palestine. So said Haneen Zoabi, a Palestinian member of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, in an interview with The Electronic Intifada (EI) on 29 October in Chicago (video). “The reality goes more toward the one state solution,” Zoabi said, “whether a democratic one-state [...]

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards slam Ahmadinejad

by News Sources 11.03.2010

RFE/RL reports: In an unprecedented move, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has directly blasted President Mahmud Ahmadinejad over controversial comments he made recently, including saying that parliament is not on top of the country’s affairs. Ahmadinejad was also criticized for promoting an “Iranian school of thought” instead of an Islamic one. Ahmadinejad has in [...]

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‘We don’t want to be Iraq’

by News Sources 11.02.2010

Steven Sotloff writes: Though the foiled plot to mail packages filled with bombs to synagogues in Chicago has bumped congressional midterm elections as the top story in the United States, here in Yemen it has caused barely a ripple. While Washington focuses on combating the regional al-Qaeda affiliate believed to be behind the plot, Yemenis [...]

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World order

by News Sources 11.02.2010

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The phantom left

by News Sources 11.02.2010

Chris Hedges writes: The American left is a phantom. It is conjured up by the right wing to tag Barack Obama as a socialist and used by the liberal class to justify its complacency and lethargy. It diverts attention from corporate power. It perpetuates the myth of a democratic system that is influenced by the [...]

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Tom Engelhardt: Pentagon lovers and welfare queens

by TomDispatch 11.02.2010

The most dispiriting election of a lifetime (Mine) By Tom Engelhardt By the time you read this, I’ll already have voted — the single most reflexive political act of my life — in the single most dispiriting election I can remember.  As I haven’t missed a midterm or presidential election since my first vote in 1968, [...]

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Bill Maher’s fear of Muslims

by Paul Woodward 11.01.2010

Upon learning that in the UK last year, Mohammed (including its variant spellings) was the most popular name for baby boys, this was the reaction of comedian Bill Maher: Am I a racist to feel alarmed by that? Because I am. And it’s not because of the race, it’s because of the religion. I don’t [...]

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Broder and Israel’s Goldilocks war against Iran

by Paul Woodward 11.01.2010

What kind of institutional entity do the hacks in Washington constitute such that they can have a “dean”? When David Broder is referred to as the dean of the Washington press corps, I guess it’s just a complimentary way of saying the old guy. But Broder’s nine years younger than Helen Thomas. How come she [...]

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William Astore: the face of war (don’t look!)

by TomDispatch 11.01.2010

Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com You’d think that people always seeking “lessons” from war would draw one from our latest wonder weapon, which fights our wars for us without an American in sight.  I’m talking, of course, about the drone aircraft that have, in recent years, become a signature form of American war-making.  They represent truly [...]

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