A nice little segment of al Jazeera's series Empire:
Empire 101
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Let’s Not Politicize the Holocaust (This Time)
An article this weekend from the Washington Post details the growing internal outrage within Israel against members of their Ultra Orthodox community, centered around the Ultra Orthodox's use of Holocaust imagery in a protest against opposition to their calls to...
Deep Thoughts From The Guardian
Will the Republicans ban sex in 2010 [sic]? Why did those "government-hating," "market-worshipping" Republicans "sacrifice all the workers and retirees"? Why mustn't we despise our corrupt, corporatist governments? Read The Guardian and find out! Well, OK, just read...
Paul’s Foreign Policy Focus
One doesn't have to agree with all of Ron Paul's libertarian views to admire his principled anti-interventionism and opposition to America's eternal wars: clearly his foreign policy positions intersect at the point where character meets ideology. In this interview...
Video: Elderly Israeli Fighter Talks About 1948 Genocide
Electronic Intifada's Benjamin Doherty shared a video from "Nakba"-awareness group Zochrot - "Remembering" - of a former Palmach fighter who participated in the expulsion of unarmed Palestinian Arabs from their villages in Southern Israel. Amnon Neumann casually...
US Sending Iraq $11 Billion in Arms, Despite Maliki’s Turn Towards Dictatorship
Pointing out Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's turn towards dictatorship is no longer a fad for opposition members of parliament and voiceless Iraqi subjects. Now it's so blatant that it's recognized by everyone. Even the New York Times. The Obama administration...
Obama Admits Drone War in Somalia Creates Terrorism
From yesterday's Washington Post, in an article entitled "Under Obama, an emerging global apparatus for drone killing": But the administration has allowed only a handful of strikes, out of concern that a broader campaign could turn al-Shabab from a regional menace...
The War on Boko Haram, and the Hubris of Unwarranted Intervention
The Nigerian terror group Boko Haram detonated explosives early this week in Christian churches during Christmas mass, killing about 40 people. The attacks are just the latest in a series of an increasingly frequent actions by the group, which has renewed vigor as of...
‘Kill, Occupy, Kill’ is a Losing Strategy
The Guardian reported on Sunday that "senior British officials believe that a 'last push' in 2012 is likely to definitively destroy al-Qaida's remaining senior leadership in Pakistan." The vicious drone war, wildly accelerated under Obama, has managed to kill a...
All I Want for Christmas Is My Civil Liberties!
Sad, isn't it, that just two days before Christmas, we have to stand out in the cold and worry about getting another big lump of coal from our politicians?! But unfortunately it's expected that Obama will sign the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law...
