May 22, 2012
Islamophobia: A New Form of Colonialism By Ismail Salami In an organized act of brutality, a number of US soldiers went on a house-to-house shooting spree in Zangabad village, Kandahar in March and massacred 16 people including nine children while they were sleeping and all Washington had to say were a [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Bradley Foundation, Islam, Islamophobia, United States, United States Armed Forces, Washington
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May 22, 2012
For obvious reasons, Israel’s image is deteriorating worldwide. (Activestills) By Jamal Kanj In response to questions rating which country ‘… is having a mainly positive or mainly negative influence in the world?’ Israel was tie with N Korea for third place with highest negative influence on the global stage. The 2012 BBC Country Ratings [...]
Tags: Arab world, BBC, European Union, GlobeScan, Israel, Program on International Policy Attitudes, United States, Western world
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May 22, 2012
Afghanistan: exit with no strategy The least one can expect of a president who prolonged Afghan suffering by ordering a surge of troops to finish the job, is that he has something that could be dignified with the name of an exit strategy It is disingenuous to claim, as Barack Obama did [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, François Hollande, Hamid Karzai, NATO, Stanley McChrystal, United States
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May 22, 2012
Inside Tania Head’s Terrible 9/11 Lie: ‘The Woman Who Wasn’t There’ Apr 6, 2012 3:50 PM EDT Her husband died in the attacks. She barely escaped from the south tower. But a new book chronicles the (literally) unbelievable story of 9/11’s most famous ‘survivor.’ By Robin Fisher and Angelo Guglielmo. Tania Head [...]
Tags: Alicia Esteve Head, Michael Appleton, New York Times, Survivors' Staircase, Tania, Tania Head, Times, World Trade Center
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May 22, 2012
Recovery or Collapse? Bet on Collapse By Paul Craig Roberts May 21, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — The US financial system and, probably, the financial system of Europe, like the police, no longer serves a useful social purpose. In the US the police have proven themselves to be a [...]
Tags: Andrew Haldane, CounterPunch, Federal Reserve System, Reserve currency, Switzerland, United States, US dollar, Washington
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May 22, 2012
Nazism, Zionism, and the Arab World Countering the myths spread by pro-Israel ideologues By Annette Herskovits May 21, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — The intricate, sprawling architecture of deception that shapes understanding of the Israel-Palestine conflict in America is probably unique in history. For over six decades, the U.S. Congress, [...]
Tags: Arab, FrontPage Magazine, Gilbert Achcar, Holocaust, Israel, middle east, Nazism, Palestinian people
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May 22, 2012
War and cheeseburgers By Pepe Escobar A specter haunts Europe. No, it’s not communism; it’s US rating agencies. Greece is bankrupt; the eurozone is about to crack; JP Morgan makes billion-dollar “mistakes”; there’s no (jobs) future for the new generations. And yet the weaponized arm of the Western 0.1% elites occupies [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, European Union, François Hollande, Hamid Karzai, NATO, Obama, United States
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