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Daily Briefing—8th Sept 2010
Posted: 8 September 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Africa, airport body scanners, airstrikes, al-Qaeda, Aleksander Kwasniewski, AMISOM, banking, black sites, Blake Hounshell, BP, Bush tax cuts, Charles Hugh Smith, China, CIA, cognitive science, counterterrorism, credit unions, Deepwater Horizon, DR Congo, drones, drug war, experimental philosophy, extrajudicial assassination, for-profit universities, France, free press, Gareth Porter, general strike, gold, Goldman Sachs, Gulf oil spill, Halliburton, Hillary Clinton, IDF, IFEX, India, Iran, Iraq War, ISAF, Israel, Israel-Lebanon War, Joe Biden, Kabul Bank, Kandahar Surge, Kashmir, Kevin Carson, land grabbing, Lebanon, Liz Pulliam Weston, Macondo oil spill, Mahmood Karzai, Mexico, military industrial complex, missile defense, Mullah Omar, NATO, neoliberalism, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philosophy, Poland, PTSD, Robert Fisk, Rwanda, secret prisons, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Stephen Walt, student loans, Sudan, suicide bombings, Taiwan, Taliban, Transocean, TSA, Uganda, UN, Yemen
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Flaunting Zionist I.D.F. Soldier: ‘I Would Gladly Kill, Slaughter Arabs’
Posted: 19 August 2010 by Sayyid in Palestine-IsraelTags: Ariel Sharon, Eden Abergil, Facebook, IDF, Islam, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Israel-Lebanon War, Middle East, nationalism, Newspeak, Palestinians, religion, torture, War, Warfare and Conflict, Zionism
Eden Abergil, former Israel government militant, proudly posted pictures with bound and blindfolded prisoners to her Facebook profile. She is defending her pride and went so far to say she would “gladly kill Arabs—even slaughter them”, adding: “In war there are no rules.”
Yousef Munayyer, executive director at The Jerusalem Fund & The Palestine Center, debated this is much bigger issue of racism and dehumanization with Richard Hellman, president at the Middle East Research Center on “The Alonya Show” at RT where host Alonya Minkovski goes a bit fair, asking if this is Israel’s Abu Ghraib. The images were extraordinarily graphic from Abu Ghraib, but more importantly, more people paid attention to it, yet not enough. Her point that the “dehumanization” aspect is striking and goes to the root of the problem (8:41):
Daily Briefing—14th-15th July 2010
Posted: 14 July 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Africa, Al Jazeera, Al Shabaab, banking, BDS, Boubacar Coris Diop, BP, Build America Bonds, censorship, China, CIA, corporatism, Darian Worden, David Petraeus, David Rose, Egypt, FCC, Federal Reserve, France, Gaza, Gaza blockade, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Gulf oil spill, Horn of Africa, illegal immigration, Iran, ISI, ISIS, Israel, Israel-Lebanon War, Jeff Stein, Jeremy Sapienza, Jim Lobe, Johnny Rotton, Justin Raimondo, Kyrgyzstan, labor unions, Mumbai attacks, Newt Gingrich, NPT, nuclear weapons, Obama, Obama Administration, Pakistan, poverty, Robert Scheer, Saddam Hussein, Shahram Amiri, Somalia, South Korea, Stephen Walt, student loan, Tariq Aziz, Thalif Deen, Tonkin Gulf, Uganda, UN, unemployment, Uzbekistan, Vietnam War
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RAND to U.S.: Learn Lessons From Israel’s Massacres in Lebanon and Gaza
Posted: 27 April 2010 by Little Alex in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, airstrikes, drones, fascism, Gaza Massacre, Goldstone Report, Hezbollah, Hizbollah, human rights, IDF, international law, Iraq War, Israel, Israel-Lebanon War, Kandahar Surge, Lebanon, libertarian, Middle East, Newspeak, night raids, Obama Administration, Palestine-Israel, Pentagon, RAND Corporation, terrorism, US, US Army, War, War on Terror, Zionism
The Beltway, quasi-government think-tank of warmongerers provides a sick glimpse into the craniums of how governments approach war.
Israel Accusation About to Lead to Preemptive Strike on Syria?
Posted: 15 April 2010 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: Abu Muqawama, Bashar Assad, Center for a New American Society, CNAS, Damascus, Gaza, Gaza Massacre, Golan Heights, Hezbollah, Hizbollah, human rights, international law, Israel, Israel-Lebanon War, Jonathan Cook, Lebanon, Middle East, Newspeak, Seymour Hersh, Shebaa Farms, Syria, UN, US, War, War on Terror, Zionism
Mere posturing or testing the propaganda waters for consent to strike?
American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein (Full Film)
Posted: 28 February 2010 by Little Alex in Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: academia, activism, Alan Dershowitz, anti-semitism, antiwar movement, apartheid, atheism, Beyond Chutzpah, biography, DePaul University, fascism, Gaza, Hezbollah, Hizbollah, holocaust, human rights, international law, Israel, Israel lobby, Israel-Lebanon War, Judaism, Lebanon, Middle East, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Palestine-Israel, rejectionism, terrorism, The Holocaust Industry, two-state solution, US, Vietnam War, War, West Bank, WWII, Zionism
A great biography on my former adviser at DePaul University, Professor Norman Finkelstein, in whom I take great pride and to whom I extend endless gratitude for the ways he has changed my life and continues to plant seeds to make me a better man as time moves on.
Part One (9:53):
Robert Fisk – “War, Geopolics, History: Conflict in the Middle East” (Video)
Posted: 9 December 2008 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: Afghanistan, Arafat, Baghdad, Beirut, Belfast, Bill Clinton, Bosnia, Cheney, Fatah, George Bush, Hamas, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, Israel-Lebanon War, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Noam Chomsky, Osama bin Laden, Palestinans, Palestine, Robert Fisk, Saddam Hussein, Sarajevo, terrorism, The Independent, Tony Blair, War, WWI, Zionism
A public talk with Robert Fisk — introduced by Noam Chomsky.
Robert Fisk (born July 12, 1946 in Maidstone, Kent) is an award-winning British journalist and author. He is the Middle East correspondent of the UK newspaper The Independent, and has spent more than 30 years living in and reporting from the region. [1]
Fisk has been described in the New York Times as “probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain.” [2] He covered the Northern Ireland Troubles in the 1970s, the Portuguese Revolution in 1974, the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War, the 1979 Iranian revolution, the 1980-88 Iran–Iraq War, the 1991 Gulf War, and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. He has received numerous awards, including the British Press Awards‘ International Journalist of the Year award seven times. Fisk speaks vernacular Arabic, and is one of the few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden – three times between 1994 and 1997.[3] [4]
Fisk has said that journalism must “challenge authority — all authority — especially so when governments and politicians take us to war.” He has quoted with approval the Israeli journalist Amira Hass: “There is a misconception that journalists can be objective … What journalism is really about is to monitor power and the centres of power.” [5]
He has written at length on how much of contemporary conflict has, in his view, its origin in lines drawn on maps: “After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father’s war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire career — in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdad — watching the people within those borders burn.” [6]
Robert Fisk discusses the Middle East after a lengthy topic preface from Prof. Noam Chomsky. Mr. Fisk and Prof. Chomsky take questions after Mr. Fisk’s lecture.
Mr. Fisk is an amazing storyteller with an extremely sharp mind and open heart, making him one of my favorite journalists and lecturers.
“War, Geopolitics, History: Conflict in the Middle East” (1:41:44):
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