Category: 2001-2006
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Herman: Anti-Semitism
Palestinians are “Semites,” but the word antisemitism is never applied to prejudice against them, only to Jews. The restriction on the application to Jews, and failure to use it in reference to Palestinians, continues in the face of the fact that prejudice against Jews has sharply diminished in the West from the era of Hitler,…
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Ariel Sharon’s Generation
New York Times columnist William Safire has never made a secret of his pro-Israeli partiality. Thus it came as no surprise when, in a November 11, 2002 op-ed, he described Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as “a passionate Zionist, hearty, good-humored, a leader in battle who likes to crumble the earth on his farm between…
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Pakistan and Iraq
It’s always really cheering to come and be with AFSC. You wake up in the morning and you read the newspaper or watch the TV, and there really is a sense that it’s all going to hell.
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Anti-NATO protesters push peace in CZ
No violence, arrests or damage reported at demonstrations in Prague / Czech Republic
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911 Probe Led By Kissinger (!)
incredible.. a war criminal is intended to lead the investigation in the 9/11 case…
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George Orwell’s book ‘1984’ now online!
The Ministry of Truth—Minitrue, in Newspeak* —was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the…
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World’s Policeman or Bully?
In the debate about a U.S. war against Iraq, the question often pops up: Should the United States be the world’s policeman?
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Czechs hand security over to Pentagon
Chech Republic becomes a U.S. state?…Oh wait…”SPECTACULAR ATTACKS” by Bin Laden hologram…