Category: Politics & World Affairs
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Fidel Castro may be dead, ill or recuperating well from his recent intestinal surgery. We don’t know for sure. Reports out of Cuba are sketchy. What we do know is that nearly a week ago after his operation, for the first time in more than four decades of reign, Castro transferred power to his brother,…
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Ever since the creation of the state of Israel, sections of the Jewish, Muslim and conservative Christian communities have taken bitterly partisan views of the now sixty year old Israel – Arab / Islamic conflict in the middle east. The rest of the world wants to see a just and equitable solution to the problem…
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Exhausted after years of devastation due to civil war, invasion by Israel and interference by Syria, the once prosperous and modern nation of Lebanon was laboriously building itself back. Just over a year ago, Lebanon was in the midst of what was being happily called the Cedar Revolution – a gradual democratic change driven by…
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While most of the world watches helplessly, the war in Lebanon and Gaza rages on and Condoleeza Rice shuttles back and forth uselessly between the mideast and the White House with the pretense of diplomacy supposedly aimed at bringing about a cease-fire between Israel, Hamas and the Hezbollah. (Cool as a cucumber, Rice described the…
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Did John Bolton say aloud what many think privately? And doesn’t this mindset lie at the root of most human conflicts, oppression and exploitation? Lebanon civilian deaths morally not same as terror victims — Bolton UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – US Ambassador John Bolton said there was no moral equivalence between the civilian casualties from the…
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The last few days’ events involving senseless civilian deaths in the Mumbai train bombings, Israel’s escalating war in Lebanon in search of Hizbollah militants and the usual bad news from Iraq, have me despairing once again, about the state of the world. I feel anger, fear and hopelessness. I can point fingers at those who…
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I feel the need way to work my way through this one, because it just seems so incredibly outlandish to me. You see, The New York Times is apparently guilty of treason. Or if not the Times, then at least its editor. Precision, clarity of thought, is not necessary if you are a conservative, after…
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India’s encounters with Islamic terrorism perpetrated by home grown militants supported by Al Qaida and its subsidiaries, has a long history. Long before Osama Bin Laden was a glint in the evil eyes of Bush-Cheney, India had been targeted for civilian deaths by Kashmiri militants, Al Qaida, Taliban and assorted Pakistan sponsored terrorists. Ironically, these…
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The NSA may have approached AT&T to set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before September 11, 2001. Very interesting. Whenever challenged about its illegal snooping activities, the Bush administration has repeatedly insisted that such surveillance is an essential tool in the fight against global terrorism. Now let me get this straight. As…
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Lying, misleading, misrepresenting, swiftboating – the right wing Republicans know all the fine arts of dirty politics. It is now clear that they are also adept at heisting, pilfering and plagiarizing. After weeks and months of calling Murtha, Kerry and other Democrats who have suggested a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq cowardly cut and run…
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Here is a quiz that will test your familiarity with fascist-speak. Don’t worry if you can not tell the difference between Ann Coulter and Adolph Hitler. The distinction is only temporal, not of essence. (via Neural Gourmet)
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Conservative politicians and their media mouthpieces are pastmasters at bullying, threatening and spreading disinformation in order to stay in power. We have seen countless evidence of that in the last five years. Some of them have also perfected the art of obscene personal attacks against political opponents. These attacks often take the form of ridiculing…
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(Soccer post # 5) The US is out of World Cup Soccer, having lost 1-2 to the super underdog team of Ghana. (Ghana’s is the Cinderella story of the 2006 WCS. Their dream run is about to come to an end – they go up against Brazil next.) US fans are disappointed with the American…
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