Reasoning Against Peace Too Heavy a Price for Israeli Elites? September 28, 2010By JONATHAN COOK With the resumption of settlement construction in the West Bank yesterday, Israel’s powerful settler movement hopes that it has scuttled peace talks with the Palestinians.It would be misleading, however, to assume that the only major obstacle to the success of the negotiations is the right-wing political ideology the settler movement represents. Equally important are deeply entrenched economic interests shared across Israeli society.These interests...
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Monday, 27 September 2010
The Collapse of Western Morality
The Indispensable People? The Collapse of Western Morality By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Weekend EditionSeptember 24 - 26, 2010Yes, I know, as many readers will be quick to inform me, the West never had any morality. Nevertheless things have gotten worse. In hopes that I will be permitted to make a point, permit me to acknowledge that the US dropped nuclear bombs on two Japanese cities, fire-bombed Tokyo, that Great Britain and the US fire-bombed Dresden and a number of other German cities, expending more destructive force, according to some historians,...
Steal From the Poor, Give to the Rich
Steal From the Poor, Give to the Rich The Redistribution of Wealth By PATRICK IRELANSeptember 27, 2010The United States is undergoing a great redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich. President Obama and the Congress have done nothing to alter this trend. Despite the corporate media’s obsession with the alleged differences between the Democrats and the Republicans, this transfer of wealth has increased in both size and speed regardless of the party in power. The number of poor people has steadily increased and their loss of income has...
The Danish Cartoon Affair
How and Why It All Began The Danish Cartoon Affair By RUNE ENGELBRETH LARSEN Weekend EditionSeptember 24 - 26, 2010On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, some of which were extremely demonizing in their outspoken anti-Muslim symbolism. Four months later violent protests erupted outside Danish embassies in some Muslim countries, and the terror threat against Denmark increased dramatically. Yet what happened during those four months, and could the escalation of the crisis have been...
Sunday, 12 September 2010
THE KORAN AT FAHRENHEIT 451
THE KORAN AT FAHRENHEIT 451 September 10 - 12, 2010By ALEXANDER COCKBURN By the end of the week, the air was so thick with pieties about the need for tolerance and respect for all creeds that one yearned for the Rev. Terry Jones, mutton chop whiskers akimbo, to rescind his last minute cave-in, stiffen his spine, then toss those Korans into the burn barrels outside his Gainesville church in Florida and torch them on this year’s anniversary of 9/11. Jones announced on Thursday that he was canceling his Koran burning plan after getting a pledge ...
Thursday, 9 September 2010
Obama urges Fla. pastor to call off Koran burning
Obama urges Fla. pastor to call off Koran burningBy William BraniginThursday, September 9, 2010; 1:57 PMPresident Obama urged a Florida pastor Thursday to call off a plan to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11, warning that such a "stunt" would amount to a "recruitment bonanza for al-Qaeda" and would endanger Americans. Obama added his voice to a chorus of criticism of the proposed Koran-burning in an interview broadcast Thursday on ABC's "Good Morning America" program. Amid continuing protests in countries such as Afghanistan, he urged Terry...
Obama Speaks Out Against Pastor’s Plan to Burn Koran
Obama Speaks Out Against Pastor’s Plan to Burn KoranBy HELENE COOPERPublished: September 9, 2010WASHINGTON— President Obama sharply criticized a Florida pastor’s plan to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, calling it a “stunt” that threatens the lives of American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and violates American principles of religious tolerance.“If he’s listening, I just hope he understands that what he’s proposing to do is completely contrary to our values as Americans,” Mr. Obama said in an interview...
The Quran burning: sign of things to come?
The Quran burning: sign of things to come?Director, Islamic Studies, U. of Delaware Muqtedar KhanAssociate professor, political science and international relations; Fellow of the Institute of Social Policy and Understanding."Where books are burned in the end people will burn." - Heinrich HeineOn May 10th, 1933 the Nazis burned 25,000 books -- including those written by Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, who had predicted in 1820 that "where books are burned in the end people will burn," - and eight years later the Holocaust began. The connection is not...
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
DOVE CENTER A HAVEN FOR HATE
DOVE CENTER A HAVEN FOR HATEPosted on 01 September 2010Brandon Thompson / Contributing WriterBringing a new meaning to the phrase “a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida seems to thrive off of its controversial slogans and slander. Hiding under the title of “church”, this center does not display the values that a church would normally teach its members like unconditional love, kindness and obedience.Their most recent act of controversy was the announcement that on September 11, in honor of 9/11 victims,...
DOVE CENTER A HAVEN FOR HATE
DOVE CENTER A HAVEN FOR HATEPosted on 01 September 2010Brandon Thompson / Contributing WriterBringing a new meaning to the phrase “a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida seems to thrive off of its controversial slogans and slander. Hiding under the title of “church”, this center does not display the values that a church would normally teach its members like unconditional love, kindness and obedience.Their most recent act of controversy was the announcement that on September 11, in honor of 9/11 victims,...
THE FIRE THIS TIME
Weekend EditionSeptember 3 - 5, 2010THE FIRE THIS TIMEBy Rev. WILLIAM E. ALBERTS “The fires of injustice yield no ashes from which to rise until we all burn inside with a sense of the wrongdoing.” – Eva Y. AlbertsIn his second Inaugural Address, former president George W. Bush championed his administration’s pre-emptive, falsely based, criminal war of choice against Iraq with, “We have lit a fire . . . and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.” ( “ ‘There is No Justice Without Freedom,’” text of President...
Monday, 6 September 2010
Do Americans Know What Happened in Iraq?
Do Americans Know What Happened in Iraq?by Michael O'Brien, September 06, 2010 A Fox News poll released last week indicates the majority of Americans feel the Iraq war was a success. It also suggests they want to get past it and focus on other things. This is good and bad. It is good that average Americans can put our invasion of Iraq in 2003 out of their minds. It is bad because it indicates they don’t know what happened, or don’t care.According to the Fox News article, 900 people were surveyed by telephone and asked questions such as “Do you...
‘They Kill Alex’
‘They Kill Alex’Posted on Sep 6, 2010By Chris HedgesCarlos Arredondo, a native Costa Rican, stands in a parking lot of a Holiday Inn in Portland, Maine, next to his green Nissan pickup truck. The truck, its tailgate folded down, carries a flag-draped coffin and is adorned with pictures of his son, Lance Cpl. Alexander S. Arredondo, 20, a Marine killed in Iraq in 2004. The truck and a trailer he pulls with it have become a mobile shrine to his boy. He drives around the country, with the aid of donations, evoking a mixture of sympathy and hostility....
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