Juan Cole, Democracy Now, October 23: To my knowledge, the United States has never captured any Iranian with arms. There were 136 foreign detainees, the last we knew. There are 24,000 Iraqi ones. And the 136 contain no Iranians at all. 45% of them, earlier in the summer, were Saudis. I think that proportion has…
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What we have created
Riverbend, October 22: By the time we had reentered the Syrian border and were headed back to the cab ready to take us into Kameshli, I had resigned myself to the fact that we were refugees. I read about refugees on the Internet daily”¦ in the newspapers”¦ hear about them on TV. I hear about…
Yo, Aznar
Mark Danner, New York Review of Books, November 8: Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post-September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the…
Have laptop, will travel
Independent journalist Dahr Jamail, whose new book Beyond the Green Zone is released this week, wonders why the corporate media ignores the vast crimes committed in our name: “…Because the fact that I didn’t go to journalism school and hadn’t worked professionally as a journalist before, I think, worked to my advantage. And colleagues of…
The lies of Zionist overtures
How much longer will we have to listen to lies about Israel’s desperate search for peace? The Guardian reports: The Israeli army has ordered the seizure of Palestinian land surrounding four West Bank villages apparently in order to hugely expand settlements around Jerusalem, it emerged yesterday. The confiscation happened as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met…