Smearing Cheney’s critics

After the colossal embarrassment the Bush Administration suffered last week, when 3 former generals all turned down the position fo war Czar, The Washington Times step in to try and swiftboat the most outspoken of the three. The Times’ military reporter Bill Gertz — who frequently propagates information that comes from Cheney’s office — wrote…

Cheney’s concern for Israel

The even compassionate Dick Cheney is worried about what a withdrawl from Iraq would mean for his beloved Israel. “We must consider, as well, just what a precipitous withdrawal would mean to our other efforts in the war on terror, to our interests in the broader Middle East, and to Israel,” the U.S. vice president…

Does democracy threaten Israel?

The challenges for Israel and it’s obsession with maintaining it’s Jewish indentity are comming thick and fast. A Christian Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset, Dr. Azmi Bishara, who is travelling, is apparently afraid to return to Israel for fear of being arrested by Israeli Security Agency that is accusing his of treason and espionage.…

Iraqis must accept what we have given them

General Patreaus at last comes clean about what they can expect from the surge that was supposed to be working so well. America’s top general in Iraq, David Petreaus, has noted that the “surge” has achieved “modest progress,” but is not convinced it will bring lasting success, reports the Washington Post. And he has some…

Occupation has it’s rewards

Saturday’s report in the Washington Post by Josh White, describes a secret report, completed in June 2006, on the conduct of the 2nd Marine Division in the Haditha massacre: Maj. Gen. Eldon A. Bargewell’s 104-page report on Haditha is scathing in its criticism of the Marines’ actions, from the enlisted men who were involved in…

Trouble in paradise

It appears more and more Israelis are becoming disenchanted with Israel and looking for greener pastures elsewhere. Meanwhile the Maariv newspaper reported that approximately a quarter of the Israeli population was considering emigration. Almost half of the country’s young people were thinking of leaving the country, the report said. Their reasons included dissatisfaction with the…

A major step towards lifting the Israeli Taboo

It’s not without irony that Brandeis University, founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian university under the sponsorship of the American Jewish community, is fast becoming a beacon of enlightenment and open debate with regards to Israel and the Palestinian situation. In January, Jimmy Carter was invited to give a speech about his latest book, “Palestine…

Digging deeper

So what am I missing back home? The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia’s self-described finest newspaper, features on its homepage a story about Beyonce’s curves. Really. Here in Cuba, I continue to be amazed at the profound disconnect between the propaganda pumped-out by the Left and Right about this small island. Meeting a growing number of…

The massive conspiracy to hide Saddam’s WMD

Melanie Phillips has uncovered a vast right and left wing conspiracy theory. A guy called Dave Gaubatz told her he found massive underground bunkers in mid 2003. Saddam’s WMD did exist. He should know, because he found the sites where he is certain they were stored. And the reason you don’t know about this is…

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