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What being “pro-Israel” can mean
Via the Guardian: The owner of a Jewish newspaper in Atlanta has said he deeply regrets writing a column suggesting that Israel consider “a hit” on… Barack Obama… if he stands in the way of the Jewish state defending itself. Andrew Adler told the Guardian he wrote the column in the weeklyAtlanta Jewish Times… “to get a reaction”…
This is how our empire rolls; take resources and kill civilians
American imperialist arrogance is almost comical in its ineptitude. Invade Iraq, kill so many and still make off with the oil contracts. This piece in the Washington Post by John Tierman is that rare piece of remembrance of the mostly nameless civilians we kill in the name of freedom and democracy. And we wonder why…
How Fox News serves us daily a whole heap of goodness
2011 has been a Fox News year with a Muslim American President, socialism in the class room, terrorists in the White House and: Elie Wiesel, Mr Murdoch, is a Holocaust survivor but he has used his fame to care about all kinds of causes (including, according to Norman Finkelstein, exploiting groups and firms involved in…
We leave Iraq a ruined nation
After America withdraws most of its troops, the New York Times, a key paper that backed the invasion in 2003, editorialised yesterday and sounded contrite (a little, though no mention of the mainstream media’s drum-boat towards the conflict): America’s reputation has yet to fully recover from the horrors of Abu Ghraib. The country is still…
Obama’s message to Zionists everywhere; ignore the rumours, I love Israel in every way
Foreign Policy’s The Cable publishes… extracts of a speech that prove for the umpteenth time that Washington under Barack Obama is determined to blindly back Israel to the hilt. But be warned, fundamentalist Zionists; smearing critics as anti-Semites ain’t working any more: The Obama administration may not be getting a whole lot of love from the…