December 14, 2008
PATRICK FARRELL/Miami Herald via McClatchy-TribuneJudith Saintilus, 9, holds a worn-down knife she was using to search the mountainside Nov. 21 for beans in Baie d'Orange, Haiti. In the past month, international aid workers and doctors have airlifted 46 children on the brink of death from this south...
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Haaretz, Israel's most unbelievable newspaper, reports thatU.S. President-elect Barack Obama's administration will offer Israel a "nuclear umbrella" against the threat of a nuclear attack by Iran, a well-placed American source said earlier this week. The source, who is close to the new administratio...
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The Forward notes in an article today that the largest U.S. Jewish umbrella group, the Conference of Presidents, refused to support the government’s eviction of extremist settlers from Hebron’s House of Contention. The Conference also tellingly refused to condemn the subsequent settler...
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This! has to take the cake for bad faith reporting. I use the word ‘reporting’ loosely. I mean, we’ve had to endure years of idiotic bashing by US and Brit “journalists” about everything from our national character to our supposed personal habits to our economy. Not a s...
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Cheryl Halpern, Jewish neocon to the UN, Bushs' gift to Susan Rice? I sometimes find JTA the source of unintentional humor, sometimes of a slightly dark and clammy variety. A perfect example is this item noting that George Bush has appointed one of his most loyal Jewish neocon supporters to a ...
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As Dominicans prepare themselves to go to the polls in 2010, Chris at Dominica Weekly thinks that “there are many strategies that local political parties can adopt from the Obama presidential campaign.” ...
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Some writers try to come off as concerned about Iraq's civilians. They even say that it's wrong to use them as political pawns. But actually that's all Iraqis are to the mainstream media. The journalists hate George Bush so much that they put the Iraqi population in the same recycle bin with Bush.On...
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After the devastating attacks in Mumbai late November 2008, the pressure on Pakistan escalated tremendously. For the last two decades, Pakistan has been using the policy of sponsoring terrorists (not only Pakistan, since after the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Pakistan along with the US a...
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MPACUK, a British Muslim “empowerment system” according to its web site, says that it will no longer apologize for the acts of Islamic terrorists. This video, MPACUK says, explains why Muslims have turned to violence against their “executioners”: Quite a lot of build ...
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Seems to me that Rick Warren, one of the most popular Christian evangelical pastors in the nation, has some splainin’ to do to the Muslim bruthas when he speaks at the Muslim Public Affairs Council national convention in two weeks. You see, Brother Rick engaged in a surreal interview with Br...
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