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Category Archives: War on Terror
Greenwald: Indefinite detention policies have become normalized legally, politically and culturally in Israel and the US
Glenn Greenwald: “abuses have now been going on for so long in the two countries, are so entrenched, that they have been absorbed into the political landscape as barely noticed accoutrements.”
“Four days in Ramallah through the lens of dehumanization” – remembering Anthony Shadid
Boston.com just republished Shadid’s four day account of his journey through the West Bank in the spring of 2002. It’s worth quoting it at length; there’s no better way to mark Shadid’s career than letting his words speak for him.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, Middle East, Occupation, US Politics, War on Terror
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Mark Perry: Israel and Iran’s ‘low-level war’ is ‘dangerous stuff’
Acclaimed author and journalist Mark Perry speaks with Mondoweiss on the escalating situation between Israel and Iran, and the implications for the U.S.
Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged featured, Foreign Policy, Hezbollah, Juan Cole, Mark Perry, New Delhi
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Book Review: ‘A Child’s View from Gaza: Palestinian Children’s Art and the Fight Against Censorship’
The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) book A Child’s View from Gaza: Palestinian Children’s Art and the Fight Against Censorship offers a behind the scenes window into a continued struggle to give voice to a people whose cultural identity has been assaulted, ignored, hidden, repressed, attacked and stolen.
New York’s Muslim community fights back against NYPD Islamophobia
Muslim community leaders say Islamophobia is deep-seated in the New York Police Department. And they’re not taking it anymore.
Praying while Shi’a: the NYPD’s latest religious profiling scandal
In May 2006, as tensions flared between the US and Iran, the NYPD “recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists.”
Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
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Mossad chief held secret talks in DC with top U.S. officials
The Senate’s Worldwide Threat Assessment– excuse me, but there are too many If’s here for anyone to endorse a preemptive attack on Iran
Why we should be furious the Haditha massacre Marines got no jail time
Orwellian-style agitprop from James Joyner in The Atlantic on the Haditha massacre where 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children were killed by a group of United States Marines in 2005.
The agenda behind the anti-Muslim film screened to NYPD: protecting Greater Israel
The backers of an anti-Muslim film shown to the NYPD are major financial backers of Israel’s settlement project.
‘I better not call Betty’ — My long path to unreasonable optimism about the conflict
A mathematician describes his spiritual progress to Zionism and then away from it
Israeli drone ‘mega deals’ export the occupation world-wide
Earlier this month, two Israeli weapons producers signed “mega deals” with “unnamed” countries, exporting a crucial piece of the occupation — drones.
Posted in BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, War on Terror
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Iran accuses CIA & Israel, US warns Israel to back off
The repercussions from the assassination of Iranian nuclear expert Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan are rippling thru diplomatic circles even as thousands of Iranians mourn. With tensions high and the US denying any involvement in the slaying, the U.S. has– are you sitting … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Israeli Government, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged featured
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Video surfaces of American forces urinating on dead corpses in Afghanistan (and Pamela Geller loves it)
A video of American Marines urinating on corpses exploded on the internet yesterday. Multiple sources positing this could have the impact of another Abu Gharib. Reportedly one soldiers says ‘Scout sniper team 4 with the 3rd Battalian 2nd Marines out … Continue reading
Posted in US Politics, War on Terror
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13 year old Palestinian girl in wheelchair victim of hit and run by Israeli settlers
Hiba Abdul Ghaffar, 13, was heading to school Thursday when she was hit by a settler car near the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron,
Paul’s challenge to progressives
The longer Ron Paul is in the race, the more progressive Obama’s foreign policies will be
Posted in Arab Spring, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged featured
221 Comments
Memories of Gaza: when the victim is called the terrorist
A woman who lived through the Gaza Massacre recalls children who died, her friends
Expendables of a waning empire
Notes on Obama’s expanding drone war
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Middle East, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged featured
29 Comments
Let us forget Iraq
For Iraqis, the suffering is endless and the consequences of occupation have only just begun. America left a ruined country.
Iraq– I’m sorry
US exits Iraq, almost
Posted in Iraq, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
Tagged featured
123 Comments
US and Israel march in lockstep towards expansion of military detention
US and Israeli moves to expand the use of military detention for its citizens give new meaning to the phrase “shared values.”
Karen Greenberg’s evasion
Karen Greenberg, a leading human rights thinker and source for Max Blumenthal’s important piece on the Israelification of American security procedures, has now said that Blumenthal made up the quotes, or misquoted her, it’s not entirely clear. She did so … Continue reading
Unpacking the Israel-Kenya deal to help wage war in Somalia
Israeli arms sales is one important factor explaining Israel’s cooperation with the Kenyan government’s fight against al-Shabaab.
Chas Freeman on Muslim death toll and its emotional/political consequences
Chas Freeman gave a speech at Tufts yesterday. Paul Woodward picked it up. Consider, for example, the two sides of the Israel-Palestine struggle. So far in this century – since September 29, 2000, when Ariel Sharon marched into the Al … Continue reading
Maybe the U.S. bears some responsibility for intolerance in Afghanistan
A week or so back Time Magazine ran that sensational cover of the Afghan woman whose nose and ears were cut off by her Taliban husband. The cover line was "What happens if we leave Afghanistan." Today in the Times … Continue reading
Many Afghan demos in ’09 were about… Israel
I’m poking around the Afghan war diaries from Wikileaks (inspired by Antony Loewenstein) and it looks like one element of our nationbuilding effort in Afghanistan is working: the people there have demonstrated a lot, and peacefully, against Israel. Judging by … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, War on Terror
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