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Reporters might like to consider the Arab point of view
The Australian Committee for Truth in the Middle East, a group with a fine pedigree, offers some advice to journalists covering the Middle East: 1. In Gaza and the West Bank Hamas won popular support – enough to win an election generally regarded in the West as fair (except for the result, of course) –…
Not bombing Iran now must be killing the Israelis
Regarding this week’s reported progress between Iran and the Western powers, a salient comment: Obama WH already got more from one buffet lunch with Iran than Bush WH did in 8 years of saber-rattling.
In Indonesia for two weeks
I’ll be in Indonesia for the coming two weeks as a guest of the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali. Public events, media engagements and sharing thoughts with speakers and guests at one of Asia’s biggest literary festivals. Post Bali, I’ll be visiting other Indonesian cities on a book tour, talking about the Middle…
Nukes and more nukes for the Jewish state
Anybody unclear that Israel can act illegally and the US gives her a free pass? President Obama has reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections, three officials familiar with the understanding said. The officials, who spoke on the condition that they not…
Resistance brews as Israel builds more settlements
Rumblings about a third intifada are emerging from the Middle East. It’s not a pretty prospect but the utter failure to stop Israeli expansionism almost makes it inevitable. Eileen Read, writing at True/Slant, shares this concern: This week’s violent clashes between the Israeli military and the citizenry of Palestine underscore the ever-present chance of another…
The nation’s soul must be Christian and conservative
Believers everywhere, you are instructed to Pray for a Liberal.
America’s expanding nuclear arsenal
Barack Obama, a man of rhetoric over reality: Despite statements by U.S. President Barack Obama that he wants to see the world reduce, and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration continues to push forward on a programme called Complex Modernisation, which would expand two existing nuclear plants to…
The internet doesn’t revolve around the US
After the recent, good news in the US that “net neutrality” would remain, the power of Washington appears to be shifting in various other directions. Welcome to a post-America world: After complaints about American dominance of the internet and growing disquiet in some parts of the world, Washington has said it will relinquish some control…
Where the lessons of Iraq are ignored over Iran
The growing hysteria over Iran is deafening (details here, here,… here and here.). Watch this segment on the “liberal” MSNBC and see how the American media elite (including Arianna Huffington, just back from a little trip to Israel) are almost gagging to bomb the Islamic Republic. Salon’s Glenn Greenwald is a notable voice of reason: