Ahmadinejad responds by asking what do Americans like about Bush. Pelley’s answer? Bush is a religious man. “As an American citizen tell me what trait do you admire?” the president asked Pelley. “Well Mr. Bush is without question a very religious man for example, as you are,” Pelley replied. “What religion, please tell me, tells…
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Blackwater stains
More confirmation that not only is the Iraqi government irrelevant, but that the Bush administration has no problem humiliating them publicly. In spite of Blackwater being ordered out of the country by the Iraqi government, they clearly are going nowhere. This makes a mockery of the suggestion that if the Iraqi government were to request…
Iranian bashing in America
In spite of the fact that Iran not only had nothing to do with 9/11, officially condemned the attack and hosted a one million strong demonstration against the attack in its immediate aftermath, the Right is ramping up its Iran bashing. The argument given is that Iran is arming those who are attacking US forces…
The state of our game
While the American media underplayed the recent tussles between Fatah and Hamas in Palestine – after all, the US couldn’t be to blame, surely! – and the black blogosphere is starting to find its voice in the world’s leading super-power, the country’s finest investigative journalist Seymour Hersh argues that the Bush years have been unlike…
Staying home
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, September 23: Mahmoud Abbas has to stay home. As things stand right now, he must not go to Washington. Even his meetings with Ehud Olmert are gradually turning into a disgrace and have become a humiliation for his people. Nothing good will come of them. It has become impossible to bear the…
Even Adolf should be heard
What a wonderful way to ruffle some feathers (and make an important political point): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will arrive in New York Sunday, in order to participate in the United Nations General Assembly in the city. Aside from his anticipated speech at the general assembly on Tuesday, the Iranian president is also scheduled to…
The disease has a name
Newsflash! Jewish men over the age of 55 are prone to catch “Dershowitis”.… It’s highly catagious, prone to make you highly prejudicial against the Palestinians and love anything and everything Israel may do. Pray to God you don’t have it.
Keeping it all
Uri Avnery, September 22: Everything significant that is happening nowadays is a part of the Israeli effort to take over the West Bank and to turn it into a part of the State of Israel. All else is but foam on the water. The pathetic Condoleezza Rice keeps coming and going. Ehud Olmert is formulating…
Apply here for pointlessness
If there was a definition of futility, then these guys have won the prize: Walid Jawad was tired of all the chatter on Middle Eastern blogs and Internet forums in praise of gory attacks carried out by the “noble resistance” in Iraq. So Mr. Jawad, one of two Arabic-speaking members of what the State Department…
Attack Syria (but don’t ask questions)
The New York Times, among many other mainstream media outlets, was quick to report this story (the latest “development” is below): American concerns about ties between Syria and North Korea have long focused on a partnership involving missiles and missile technology. Even many hawks within the Bush administration have expressed doubts that the Syrians have…