Israeli Didi Remez writes at his essential blog Coteret: Sima Kadmon is senior political commentator at Yediot, second in stature only to Nahum Barnea. She devotes much of her Friday (February 5 2010) column to a methodical deconstruction of the motivation and methodology behind the Im Tirzu anti-NIF smear campaign. Kadmon adds… domestic… depth to Nahum Barnea’s…
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Washington sets its eyes on taking Iraq forever
If you believed that America was permanently removing itself from controlling Iraq, think again: The State Department plans major increases in its Iraq mission, with hundreds more employees there and a stepped-up diplomatic presence outside Baghdad as the U.S. military prepares to leave later this year. A new fiscal 2010 supplemental request asks for $2.1…
What television is made for; O’Reilly vs Stewart
When Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly interviewed Jon Stewart this week, it actually seemed like the two of them could be the kind of friends who rarely agree but enjoy the verbal stoush. Of course, O’Reilly usually bullies anybody he doesn’t like; it’s the Murdoch way:
Why the Western powers will never win Afghanistan
Unique journalism is getting an angle rarely reported or understood. Take this fascinating British Dispatches program that features inside the “enemy camp in northern Afghanistan”:
America reminds the world who really controls Israel
Washington certainly has a strange way of showing its opposition to Israel’s Gaza policy: The United States has suggested to Israel that easing the Gaza blockade would help counter the fallout from the Goldstone report on alleged war crimes during Operation Cast Lead a year ago. … The Americans said they do not believe in…
Anne Frank may offend young children, apparently
From the file of religious fundamentalism, comes this: The Culpepper County Public Schools has become the latest addition to the dubious list of schools banning Anne Frank’s ”˜Diary of a Young Girl.” The move to pull the books from all of the shelves in the county reportedly came after one parent found a passage to…
What Egypt could like look when free
Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas, a brave soul and long-time enemy of the US-backed client state, speaks out on what he dreams for his country:
An American soldier explains what he did in the Middle East
Back in 2008, a number of former American soldiers gave testimony at the “Winter Soldier” hearings and detailed the horrific crimes committed in our name in America’s imperial pursuits. This video powerfully articulates the inherent racism within Washington’s Middle East adventures:
Kosher meat obtained through animal torture
A friend passes this along and comments: “Send to your friends who eat kosher beef!” My name is Lester Friedlander. I am a veterinarian and worked as a slaughter line inspector for more than 10 years for the USDA. I have received repeated certificates of merit and commendation from the USDA, and was USDA Veterinary…
Murder Iranians in the name of helping Obama, writes radical Jew
Daniel Pipes, a Jew who always loves to find a new war to support, has a new article (re-published in Murdoch’s Australian, of course) that offers the US President a way out of his political troubles: Obama can give orders for the U.S. military to destroy the Iranian nuclear weapon capacity.