What does American defeat in Iraq look like for the region, and Israel specifically? Chaos (and any word on this from the Zionist lobby? Of course not.)
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Yes to a new future, but what?
With a distinct lack of media options here in Cuba, and relying almost solely on CNN for international news, this Guardian article rings true: Thirty-two die in American university shooting. Result? Huge media coverage in the US and Britain. In Iraq, almost 200 die, arguably the worst day of carnage in that beleaguered country since…
Embracing terror
Spending time in Cuba, one quickly appreciates the depth of love and hate towards the US. Many people I’m meeting declare a great deal of warmth towards the American people and believe that successive governments are simply punishing Castro for purely ideological and economic reasons (they’re right, of course.) This latest news – milked for…
BBC reporter still alive
According to Mahmoud Abbas, BBC reporter Alan Johnston is still alive. Nothing confirmed, but the news is promising. Meanwhile, Israel have demonstrated yet again, how justice and due process works in the Middle East’s only democracy. Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) extra-judicially executed a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (an armed wing of Fatah movement)…
Time for the US to get back in the saddle
Jimmy Carter continues to attract large crowds wherever he speaks.… His book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, became a best seller in spite of efforts from the Israeli lobby to defame him. At a recent appearance, he made clear the pitfalls of the current US policy in the Middle East. The American friends of Israel, who…
One rule for Israel and another for the US
Olmert is nervous about U.S. plans to sell arms to Saudi Arabia and other moderate Gulf states, fearing it would damage Israel’s deterrent capabilities in the Middle East.… By deterrent, does he mean, not being able to seize even more land? Naturally, that shouldn’t mean Israel has to consider the security of the US when…
The surge working, but for whom?
Yesterday’s carnage in Baghdad seems to have cut short the neocons fairytale about the surge working. Karl Rove (aka Turd Blossom) is tired of the war and whishes it would just go away. Never to turn up an opportunity to pass the beck, he now blames (or credits) Bin Laden, for starting the war in…
Initial Cuba
So, Cuba lives. After the US, Cuba seems to be a throwback to a different era (even though I read, on the slowest web access in the world, that in a new poll the US is little trusted to resolve world conflicts.) It’s early days – and my posting to this blog will remain very…
How the right wing sees reality
When Ron Suskind described a conversation he had with a senior adviser to Bush about what reality meant, you could have been forgiven for believing he was being metaphorical. The aide said that guys like me were ”in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who ”believe that solutions emerge from…
Al Qaeda hearts Bush
Al Qaeda and terrorist groups are grateful to Dubya for creating their own terrorist academy. The head of an al Qaeda-linked group in Iraq said the country had become a “university of terrorism”, producing highly qualified warriors, since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Who coudl blame them? The War on Terror has done everything but fight…