December 4, 2008
Chris Bowers of Open Left was on Hardball tonight to discuss Barack Obama’s national security team. Bowers is one of only a handful of prominent progressive bloggers who are concerned (and willing to express their concern) by the rightward tilt of the just announced national security team. Th...
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From a Chabad web site:-The Holtzberg family from Crown Heights arrived in Israel at the end of the week, immediately after receiving news of the attack. The flight to Israel was organized within several short hours. Two of the brothers, who held invalid passports received emergency passports thanks...
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Until it hit the headlines after the Mumbai attacks, India did not tend to receive much attention in the international press - at least not as much attention as China, Asia's other major rising power. Even with the Olympics over, China has been the subject of innumerable recent news stories and ...
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Rabbi Gabriel and Rivka Holtzberg zichronam l'vracha The news is as I feared. After finally clearing Mumbai’s Chabad House of terrorists, Indian commandos discovered that six hostages had been killed, among them Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka. Haaretz reports that the other...
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But we can’t naively carry on. To enjoy life like this, made up of the things we savour from vibrant cities like Bombay, we need to be protected. 94.6% of sixty thousand respondants at NDTV.com say it is time for India to enact stringent laws to curb terror. That’s quite a mandate, but I believe...
go to article »November 28, 2008
I just finished watching United 93, the movie about the hijacking of United Airlines 93 back in 2001. As most readers will know, passengers of United 93 tried to take back the plane, after terrorists had hijacked it by killing the pilot, the co-pilot and had stabbed passengers (to death). They fough...
go to article »November 26, 2008
What hath the monsters done?Thursday, a right-wing US judge decided that the Bush Administration had no grounds whatsoever to continue holding five Algerians held at Guantanamo and ordered their immediate release. Greewnald blogs:The five Algerians were joined for most of their stay at Guantanamo ...
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Spiritual leaders of New York’s African-American Muslim communities lashed out at extremist terrorist organization Al Qaeda on Friday after the organization had released a tape on which the group’s number two can be heard using racial slurs against president-elect Barack Obama. In the ta...
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November 21, 2008
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