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Hiatus

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:29:23 GMT

Over the past few months I have been trying to juggle the responsibilities of maintaining a current affairs blog and of writing a book length doctoral thesis. As a result I have not done justice to either (I haven’t even managed to cover the developments in Kashmir, for example). I persisted out of a sense [...]

Georgia War a Neocon Election Ploy?

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:49:08 GMT

October comes early? Sen. John McCain and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Let me also point out that this fellow Michael Klare is a third rate hack who has been peddling the oleaginous counterpart to the millenium bug for some years. It is contra-analytical, factually challenged, monocausal analysis like this that has reduced the left to its [...]

America?s Israeli-Occupied Media

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:53:56 GMT

Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi on US media’s platform for Israeli warmongering. There should be little doubt that the Israeli government is making every effort to jump-start a war against Iran sooner rather than later. Many Israelis not surprisingly believe it is in their interest to convince [...]

Tel Aviv to Tbilisi

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:01:11 GMT

Israelis wave both Georgian and Israeli flags as they chant anti-Russian slogans during a demonstration outside the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv, 11 August. (Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images) Ali Abunimah ofThe Electronic Intifada on Israel’s role in the Russia-Georgia war From the moment Georgia launched a surprise attack on the tiny breakaway region of South Ossetia last week, [...]

?Pro-Palestinian? George Advises Obama

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:15:21 GMT

Don’t write off Hollywood just yet. ‘How Clooney offers good friend Obama advice on issues from body language to Iraq,’ report Caroline Graham and Sharon Churcher. George Clooney once famously declared he could never run for public office because he?d ?slept with too many women, done too many drugs and been to too many parties?. But now [...]

Avoid clich? like the plague? Never

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:53:08 GMT

‘We are all guilty’, writes Robert Fisk. ‘To my distress, I find that I thrice used the word ‘iconic’ in my book. Ye Gods!’ Opposite my apartment in Beirut there used to live an American-born English teacher called Marion Lanson. When she departed Lebanon, I inherited her 1949 Random House American College Dictionary, edited by one [...]

George vs the Smearmongers

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:48:47 GMT

This report by some tool named Michael Savage is interesting in so far as it turns the victim of a vicious smear into the victimiser. Poor character assassins — what would they do if they weren’t accorded the privilege of smearing? London’s only Jewish community radio station has been forced to cease broadcasting after losing a [...]

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Fortress Britain

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:12:53 GMT

By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, Variant, Issue 32, Summer 2008; Spinwatch, June 23, 2008; Scoop (New Zealand), June 25, 2008; UK Watch, June 25, 2008; Media Monitors Network, June 25, 2008; Dissident Voice, June 27, 2008 ?The public has to be more alert?, warned one ?international terrorism expert? in the Daily Mail late last year, because Scotland [...]

America?s Victory in Lebanon

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:53:50 GMT

Mark Perry of the excellent Conflicts Forum draws on historical parallels from the US war of independence to put into context US setbacks in Lebanon. The prime minister of His Majesty?s Government, the rotund Lord North?reputed (falsely) to be the bastard son of George III?once sniffed to his cabinet that if it were not for the [...]

Candidates Punt on Iraq-Israel

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:16:40 GMT

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses his recent article on the probable Israeli/U.S. attack on Iran, Israel?s need for new war in Iran to keep the U.S. military in the Mideast due to the failure in Iraq, the outspokenness of the military brass against an attack on Iran, AIPAC?s drafting of [...]

Nasrallah ?most admired? Arab leader

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:06:29 GMT

From Jerusalem Post, via Norman Finkelstein. Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah is the most admired leader among the Arab public, a survey released Wednesday showed. Twenty-six percent of respondents in six countries selected Nasrallah as their most admired leader, compared to 16% who chose Syrian President Bashar Assad and 10% who picked [...]

Israeli PR on Kuntar

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:06:29 GMT

Western media, including the Guardian and the Independent have bought the story hook, line and sinker, yet there is nothing beyond the account of the Israeli military to corroborate it. The official story is all PR. ‘PR campaign will make clear: Samir Kuntar is a murderer’, reports Ha’aretz. Israel yesterday launched an international media campaign against Hezbollah. [...]

Lebanon Prisoner Exchange

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:10:12 GMT

As with anything involving Hizbullah, Robert Fisk has a pretty pathetic article on the prisoner exchange. Besides finding the discomfort of those waiting for the arrival of the bodies ‘exquisite’ he also repeats the claim put out by anti-Hizbullah elements that Dalal al-Mughrabi’s mother does not want her daughter’s body returned to Lebanon. She does, [...]

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War in Lebanon, Two Years On

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:10:12 GMT

Comment from Aussie3 David Chater calls that a news report? It might as well be an minute and a half advertisement pimping for the criminal Israeli regime. The focus is on HA?s enlarged arsenal, no mention of Israel?s belligerence and illegal fly-overs and cluster munitions and numerous flagrant violations of UN resolutions on the ?point of [...]