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Fears of Islamic extremists, precarious relations with Muslims secret conversions to Christianity spark debate at global synod in Vatican. Middle East Online – 2012-10-29 Fears of Islamic extremists, precarious relations with Muslims and secret conversions to Christianity sparked concerned debate at a global synod in the Vatican of Catholic bishops around the world. [...]
False national narratives play key roles in controlling human behavior, especially when enforced by an aggressive propaganda system that demonizes factual counter-narratives. That has long been the case as Israelminimized its harsh treatment of Palestinians, but the truth has begun to break through, says Lawrence Davidson. Middle East Online First Published: 2012-10-29 On Oct. [...]
by Allison Deger, Adam Horowitz and Annie Robbins Mondoweiss – October 29, 2012 The Supreme Court has denied the Holy Land Five appeal and will not be issuing a decision in the case. This almost definitely marks the end of the legal appeal process. The Holy Land Five — Shukri Abu Baker, [...]
How the Clinton Administration Nixed an Iran Nuke Deal by GARETH PORTER GARETH PORTER is an investigative historian and journalist specialising in U.S. national security policy. The paperback edition of his latest book, “Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam“, was published in 2006. Porter received the UK-based [...]
The Long View: Every reader of this article will be dead or of old age before the Arab “revolution” is complete. Palestinians are the only ones not to benefit from it The Independent – Sunday 28 October 2012 After last week’s Obama-Romney love-fest forIsrael, the Arabs have been slowly deciding which of the two [...]
By Hanna Braun Hanna Braun is a retired lecturer, living in London. She is a former Israeli, having emigrated to Palestine as a child in 1937 to escape Nazi Germany — her grandmother later died in the Terezin ghetto. She was in the Haganah in 1948 but left Israel in 1958 for Britain, after [...]
By John Knefel Truthout | Report Tuesday, 25 September 2012 A new Stanford-NYU report, “Living Under Drones,” details the devastation to civilians – and possible war crimes – resulting from US drone strikes in Pakistan. On the morning of March 17, 2011, Ahmed Jan joined over 40 other people at a bus station in [...]
By Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch | News Analysis Tuesday, 25 September 2012 First came the hullaballoo over the “Mosque at Ground Zero.” Then there was Pastor Terry Jones ofGainesville,Florida, grabbing headlines as he promoted “International Burn-a-Koran Day.” Most recently, we have an American posting a slanderous anti-Muslim video on the Internet with all the [...]
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