By Leo Horner Independent - 16 August 2010 A policeman hurled a shoe at a senior Indian politician as a protest against government policy in his region. The shoe was thrown during a parade to mark Indian Independence Day in Srinagar, and narrowly missed Omar Abdullah, Indian-administered Kashmir’s chief minister. Abdul Ahad Jan, who threw the [...]
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BOOK REVIEW: The Muslim Revolt
By Susannah Tarbush The Saudi Gazette - 14 August 2010 In his book “The Muslim Revolt: A Journey through Political Islam,” the British journalist Roger Hardy draws on his 25 years as Middle East and Islamic affairs analyst at BBC World Service radio to explore the often fraught relationship between Islam and the West. During his [...]
Felicity Arbuthnot: Mr Blair : About Your Book Signing : Dedication Suggestions.
August 13, 2010 “Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” (Psalms 16:18.) I note you will be signing your book, “A Journey”, at Waterstone’s flagship book shop, on London’s Piccadilly, on 8th September. As this will seemingly be a day when democracy is suspended, security near unprecedented, bags, cameras, briefcases, mobile [...]
US actors, intellectuals protest Obama ‘crimes’
Breitbart - 13 May 2010 US actors and liberal intellectuals joined a list to be published Friday of nearly 2,000 people accusing President Barack Obama of allowing human rights violations and war crimes. “Crimes are crimes, no matter who does them,” the statement reads over pictures of Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush due [...]
‘Neocon-ing’ Obama
Middle East Online – 22 December 2009 Over the past year, influential neocon columnists were bashing Obama for putting renewed pressure on Israel for a peace deal. The neocons have blunted any serious Obama pressure on Israel to accommodate the Palestinians in a Middle East peace accord. The neocons appear to be especially eager to [...]
Iraq shoe-thrower under shoe attack
Al Jazeera – 01 December 2009 The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush, the former US president, has himself come under a shoe attack in the French capital at the hands of a fellow Iraqi. Muntadhar al-Zeidi, a television reporter, was in Paris on Tueday at a news conference to promote [...]
The Closed Door
August 2, 2009 Nineteen years ago, incidents occurred in Iraq and Kuwait that changed the world and thus began the U.S. quest for word domination, an effort that gained momentum and is in full-swing today. According to the United States, “another Hitler” had just unleashed military forces that were in the first stage of taking [...]
The Balance Begins to Tip Against Cheney
By John Nichols* The Nation July 13, 2009 Dick Cheney’s accountability moment may finally be arriving. After years of pulling punches, Democrats in the Senate are throwing them at Cheney, following the revelation that the man who operated as something akin to a co-president during George Bush’s first term ordered the CIA to [...]
The semantics of torture
‘Enhanced interrogation techniques’ is a euphemism. Why is the US media refusing to call torture by its true name? John McQuaid * The US media’s most esteemed institutions – the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press and TV network news divisions among them – have a small but significant problem with the English [...]
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