Rebel Newsflash: J. D. Salinger - With Love and Squalor, For Esmé (plus 31 more items) |  |
- J. D. Salinger - With Love and Squalor, For Esmé
- IIB, Bibi and Terror
- Israel's Post Military Trip to India
- Road Warrior-level collapse imminent: Alex Jones says we must take corrective action now
- Noam Chomsky Opposes Palestinian-Led Movement To Boycott Israel
- Counting Castes: Advantage Ruling Class
- France's finance scandal
- Fadlallah and the Western media's dangerous complicity
- Pride through solidarity
- Wednesday: 13 Iraqis Killed, 26 Wounded
- The motive behind whistle-blower prosecutions
- Somalia: A time for caution
- Losing Kashmir
- Misery and Despair Plague Haitians
- The UK's Iraq war inquiry
- Asia, Middle East News & Financial Terror on The Way!
- A Prisoner's Wife
- Waiting for November
- Out of a Military Strike a Humanitarian Gesture
- The Shahram Affair
- Soccer Bombing Should Not Prompt More US Meddling
- American War Versus Real War
- How the EU Keeps Its Peace
- First person: Haiti then and now in pictures
- Why doesn't Clinton care about my jailed husband?
- News on Cnn's Sanchez Comment, BP Gulf Update, Police Taser old Women & More
- Tuesday: 11 Iraqis Killed, 25 Wounded
- Unwelcome guests: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
- Uganda's deadly attacks
- Media moral standards
- The NY Times Is Waiting For Gandhi:Here They Are
- CIA To UNICEF; Big Aid Has A Very Dirty Secret
| J. D. Salinger - With Love and Squalor, For Esmé Posted: 14 Jul 2010 02:37 PM PDT
In his celebrated story For Esmé – With Love and Squalor, Salinger, trying to get a grip on life, most probably is talking about himself when he starts a correspondence with a thirteen-year-old British girl in 1948. A Perfect Day for Bananafish is another story about his struggle with suicide. |
| Posted: 14 Jul 2010 02:24 PM PDT  MIT had been fooled again. The Israeli scientist had been accepted for a post-doctoral position with no opposition at the selecting committee. All his credentials were good and there was no reason an American Institution would suspect him. However, for those in the know, his identity as an Israeli science spook was clear. He held an advanced degree in life sciences from Bar Ilan University. His research up to now could not be directly linked to biological warfare, but it could be derived into deadly biological weapons. The lack of link was due to the fact this part of the research had never been published. Smiling smugly, he began planning his future siphoning out science from the US to his operators at the Mossad. |
| Israel's Post Military Trip to India Posted: 14 Jul 2010 02:15 PM PDT  Look here what the IDF boys do when they get out of the army. No wonder most are mentally ill. |
| Road Warrior-level collapse imminent: Alex Jones says we must take corrective action now Posted: 14 Jul 2010 10:01 AM PDT
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| Noam Chomsky Opposes Palestinian-Led Movement To Boycott Israel Posted: 14 Jul 2010 08:03 AM PDT  I n an interview on the Council for the National Interest internet radio program "Jerusalem Calling," MIT Professor Noam Chomsky, author of The Fateful Triangle and other books on Israel-Palestine, said that he opposes boycotting Israel. In a July 8th interview with new CNI President Alison Weir, Dr. Chomsky at first denied that he opposed the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement, calling this an "internet rumor." |
| Counting Castes: Advantage Ruling Class Posted: 14 Jul 2010 08:03 AM PDT  The debate over whether caste should be included in the decennial census 2011, which has actually begun, has provoked the government to constitute a Group of Ministers (GoM), the magical invention of the UPA government that yields decisions on any vexatious issue. The shrill arguments both in favour and against the proposition, with an amazing degree of embedded confusion, coming from all conceivable corners (caste, class, individuals, parties, and so on) is making it difficult to guess what the magical decision of the GOM would be. But if it comes in favour of enumeration of castes in the census, it will be the second biggest blow to the emancipation project of the oppressed people, the first being the Mandal reservations.
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| Fadlallah and the Western media's dangerous complicity Posted: 14 Jul 2010 06:12 AM PDT
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| Wednesday: 13 Iraqis Killed, 26 Wounded Posted: 14 Jul 2010 05:33 AM PDT  At least 13 Iraqis were killed and 26 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. Meanwhile, U.S. authorities transferred 55 high-level detainees, including Tariq Aziz, to their Iraqi counterparts. Also, Turkey is considering building a new army that will handle their war against PKK rebels. Tariq Aziz, who was Saddam's foreign and deputy prime minister as well as a close confidant, is now in Iraqi custody. For many years, Aziz was the face of Iraq at press conferences and international summits and has been held by the U.S. since his 2003 capture. His lawyer says the 74-year-old Aziz, who is in bad health, is now in fear for his life. |
| The motive behind whistle-blower prosecutions Posted: 14 Jul 2010 01:15 AM PDT  One of the more flamboyant aspects of the Bradley Manning arrest was the claim that he had leaked to WikiLeaks 250,000 pages of "diplomatic cables." Those were the documents which anonymous government officials pointed to when telling The Daily Beast's Philip Shenon that the leaks "could do serious damage to national security." Most commentary on the Manning case has tacitly assumed that the leaking of "diplomatic cables" would jeopardize national security secrets. But a new BBC article today contains this quote from former UK intelligence analyst Crispin Black: Diplomatic cables don't usually contain huge secrets but they do contain the unvarnished truth so in a sense they can be even more embarrassing than secrets. |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2010 11:59 PM PDT  The Somali al-Shabab group has claimed responsibility for two explosions that rocked the Ugandan capital Kampala, targeting innocent people watching the World Cup final. The attacks, which left at least 74 people dead, were the first by al-Shabab outside of Somalia. |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2010 11:14 PM PDT  As we await what many hope will be the start, on July 15, of a renewed India-Pakistan peace process, or "Composite Dialogue" - derailed since the Mumbai attacks of November 2008 - I am reminded of two past conversations. The first occurred in 1999. |
| Misery and Despair Plague Haitians Posted: 13 Jul 2010 10:04 PM PDT  Six months after Haiti's January 12 quake, inadequate relief has arrived, numerous accounts calling conditions hellish, unsanitary and unsafe - New York Times writer Deborah Sontag's July 10 article for one, headlined, "In Haiti, the Displaced Are Left Clinging to the Edge," saying:Conditions around Port-au-Prince "contain a spectrum of circumstances: precarious, neglected encampments; planned tent cities (with poor sanitation); debris-strewn neighborhoods, (and only) 28,000 of the 1.5 million (or more) displaced moved into new homes," the affected areas "a tableau of life in the ruins." |
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| Asia, Middle East News & Financial Terror on The Way! Posted: 13 Jul 2010 08:19 PM PDT
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| Posted: 13 Jul 2010 07:23 PM PDT  I used to tell my husband, Ameer Makhoul, 'One day, they'll come for you.' As chairman of the Public Committee for the Protection of Political Freedoms he'd begun to organize an awareness-raising campaign to push back against the security services' harassment of our community, the Palestinian citizens of Israel. |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2010 07:16 PM PDT  The Lovefest celebrated here for all to see when Barack Obama escorted Benjamin Netanyahu on the front lawn of the White House and at a joint press conference was a marked difference from their contentious, behind-closed-doors meeting here last April. But judging from the early assessments it is not certain that their relationship will bear fruit in the near future. For one, the American and Israeli leaders are hoping that their get-together will serve their political ambitions at home. Obama, whose rating has lately dropped markedly, will be facing in the next four months a crucial mid-term elections when Americans elect a new House of Representatives and a third of the Senate, now controlled by his Democratic Party. He apparently fears that his stance on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict may affect the voting; it certainly is giving the Republican Party and its Jewish supporters ammunition to try and cripple Obama. |
| Out of a Military Strike a Humanitarian Gesture Posted: 13 Jul 2010 07:10 PM PDT  As reporters walked through pools of blood and decapitated body parts on marble floors, they found the remains of an elderly merchant still in his nightclothes. Children, buried in rubble and crushed by "guided" missiles and bombs, were frantically being pulled from what used to be a two-story villa. Back in the U.S., the Pentagon's Messengers - CNN and the New York Times - were reporting that thirty U.S. Navy and Air Force bombers had just shelled Tripoli and Benghazi, killing Muammar Gaddafi's adopted daughter and several other civilians. President Reagan announced the brutal raid against Libya was in "self defense against future attacks."(1) |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT  Confronted with the accusation that Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri had been kidnapped by US and Saudi intelligence agencies while on a trip to Mecca, and brought to the US for interrogation, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley averred: "We are not in the habit of going around kidnapping people." To which the only proper response is: Oh, really? |
| Soccer Bombing Should Not Prompt More US Meddling Posted: 13 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT  The synchronized and unconscionable bombings by the Somali group al-Shabab – of people doing nothing more than watching soccer games in Kampala, Uganda – counterintuitively illustrates why the United States should not be fighting Islamic militancy worldwide. Many of America's editorial writers are screaming for stepped-up U.S. counterterrorism strikes in Somalia against the group. This option would be the worst possible course of action. Many leading American newspapers and government officials see the soccer bombings as part of an ominous trend of local terror groups going international. As evidence they also cite al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's attempted bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas day, the Pakistani Taliban's assistance of the clumsy attempt to bomb New York's Times Square, and the recent arrest in Norway and Germany of three members of a separatist group from western China for allegedly orchestrating a terrorist bomb plot. Yet these international attacks by local groups, as with the strikes by the Somali al-Shabab, aren't coming out of nowhere with radical Islamism as their sole cause, as the editorial writers imply. The groups are unforgivably attempting to attack innocent civilians; yet the U.S. government needs to carefully examine why these local groups might be taking their respective shows on the road. This would require looking in the mirror, which can sometimes be tough. |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT  One striking aspect of the Vietnam years – and the antiwar movement of that era – was the degree to which you could see images of Vietnamese civilian suffering here in the United States. Among the iconic images of that war, for instance, was Nick Ut's photo of a young girl, burned by napalm from an air strike, running down a road screaming. And among war images, it was by no means alone. There were, of course, the horrific shots Army photographer Ron Haeberle took of what became known as the My Lai massacre as it was happening. After a long and tortuous journey, those photos finally appeared as a 10-page centerfold-from-hell in Life magazine (even if an African antelope was on its cover). Along with the piles of bodies of slaughtered women, children, and old men, the "eyewitness" text was little short of startling: "One body, an old man, had a 'C' carved on his chest"; "A GI grabbed the girl and with the help of others started stripping her… 'VC boom-boom,' another said, telling the 13-year-old that she was a whore for the Vietcong," and so on. I wouldn't want to exaggerate the degree of American compassion for the suffering of Vietnamese civilians, but it existed, along with those images. And because, at least in the precincts of the antiwar movement, such imagery was regularly before American eyes – some eyes anyway – and on minds, the suffering and destruction our soldiers were bringing to ordinary civilians in a distant, disastrous war was far clearer then. |
| Posted: 13 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT  The latest in a series of meetings on reform in the function of the European Union, sponsored by the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies, concluded here last week at the splendid restored palazzo of Nobel Prize-winning Canadian economist Robert Mundell. The meeting of nearly 40 EU academic analysts and non-academic observers, coming when it did, during the present crisis in the world economy, inevitably made economic and financial issues its principal subjects. The collective political inhibitions of the EU inserted themselves into the discussion, as they always do because of the institutional and national tensions within the EU, now made up of an unwieldy 27 states, and the persistent disagreement among individual member governments when confronting Washington's established commitments and policy intentions with respect to major world political and security issues. |
| First person: Haiti then and now in pictures Posted: 13 Jul 2010 01:36 PM PDT
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| Why doesn't Clinton care about my jailed husband? Posted: 13 Jul 2010 01:02 PM PDT
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| News on Cnn's Sanchez Comment, BP Gulf Update, Police Taser old Women & More Posted: 13 Jul 2010 12:17 PM PDT
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| Tuesday: 11 Iraqis Killed, 25 Wounded Posted: 13 Jul 2010 08:11 AM PDT At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 25 more were wounded as coverage of attacks resumed in the media. The parliamentary stalemate dominated the headlines, along with oil and Kurdish concerns, but the most significant story of the day came from the United Kingdom where an inquiry into the causes of the Iraq War continues to embarrass the war hawks. At a British inquiry into the Iraq War, Carne Ross, who until 2002 was the first secretary to the British mission at the U.N. responsible for Iraq policy, said the United Kingdom intentionally exaggerated claims over weapons of mass destruction and never had the evidence to back up the allegations. This is not the first time the accusation has been made. Ross quit over Iraq policy. |
| Unwelcome guests: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon Posted: 13 Jul 2010 01:43 AM PDT
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| Posted: 12 Jul 2010 09:13 AM PDT When CNN recently announced that it had hired Eliot Spitzer to host a prime-time news show, I noticed that the word "disgraced" was applied to him so reflexively that one had the impression it was a formal part of his title. CNN plans "an as-yet-untitled discussion show with Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former New York governor," announced The New York Times. The first sentence of a separate NYT article on the hiring read: "Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York . . . . " Weeks earlier, the NYT had previewed: "As CNN moves to replace Campbell Brown in its struggling prime-time lineup, the most intriguing name on the channel's list is Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York." AP referred recently to a new documentary "about Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York." On his CNN program, Howard Kurtz exclaimed: "CNN has signed Eliot Spitzer -- that's right, the disgraced former governor of New York." So common is this appellation that a NEXIS media search reveals that the word "disgraced" appears extremely close to the phrase "Eliot Spitzer" (within two words) a total of 394 times: |
| The NY Times Is Waiting For Gandhi:Here They Are Posted: 12 Jul 2010 08:06 AM PDT On July 9, 2010, Nicholas D. Kristoff wrote from the West Bank agricultural village of Bilin "Waiting for Gandhi" which was published in the New York Times: "Despite being stoned and tear-gassed on this trip, I find a reed of hope here. It's that some Palestinians are dabbling in a strategy of nonviolent resistance that just might be a game-changer…But then a group of Palestinian youths began to throw rocks at Israeli troops…Soon after, the Israeli forces fired volleys of tear gas at us, and then charged.
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| CIA To UNICEF; Big Aid Has A Very Dirty Secret Posted: 12 Jul 2010 08:03 AM PDT Former National Security Advisor in the Clinton White House and failed nominee to head the CIA, Anthony "Tony" Lake is now Executive Director of the United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF. Having a background in Western intelligence is a requirement to run a Big Aid "familia". Every head of any of the major international aid agencies comes vetted by years of loyal service up to and including being a "made man" (or woman in today's equal opportunity offender circles) like Tony Lake.
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This essay will explore the relationship of America's most famous recluse to The CIA, George H.W. Bush and the MK-Ultra mind control program.
Move towards global currency as US loses status, faces depression The United States as we know it has ended, Alex Jones warns, as the nation has lost credit rating with China, its Dollar reserve status ending as the country-- saddled by debt and unable to fund programs-- prepares to submit to IMF-style austerity measures. Sadly, the US can expect to see itself picked-off by the same predatory lending practices and control measures long imposed on vulnerable 3rd World countries throughout the globe. A financial coup d'etat has taken place over the past two years, and the global elite are moving to consolidate the pieces-- accept where patriots have been strong enough to stand up and say no.
Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, tried to silence his critics when he appeared on French TV in an hour-long interview on Monday. But instead, he spent much of his time fighting allegations of illegal financing for his 2007 election campaign. How will the allegations of illegal financing affect the French government?
There is a lot to say about Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the Lebanese Shia Muslim cleric who passed away on 4 July 2010 at the age of 75. Unfortunately, much of what there is to say is being left unsaid for more of the same sensationalist reporting on this region and its people.
As a young person with a nondescript sexual identity, I always found myself on the sidelines around issues of homo-nationalism; 
As the world tries to move on from the conflict in Iraq, various investigative bodies have looked into the intelligence and decisions that led to that war. Riz speaks to former UK diplomat turned whistleblower Carne Ross. He just completed his testimony before the UK inquiry and will tell us why he thinks its conclusions will not result in meaningful change and what can be done about it.
Alex breaks down the financial news across the world and takes your calls on the latest situation going on over in the middle east.
Thousands of people from abroad have tried to improve the lives of Haitians after a massive earthquake struck on January 12, killing 300000 people. One of them is Skyler Badenoch, who works for Build On, a US organisation that builds schools across the globe. He arrived in Haiti a day before the quake struck, and has since returned many times. Through his photography he tells Al Jazeera about the situation then, and now. (July 14, 2010)
I used to tell my husband, Ameer Makhoul, "One day, they'll come for you." As chairman of the Public Committee for the Protection of Political Freedoms he'd begun to organize an awareness-raising campaign to push back against the security services' harassment of our community, the Palestinian citizens of Israel. 
Alex covers the latest police state news takes your calls today on this tuesday edtion of the alex jones show.
The creation of the Palestinian refugee population was a direct consequence of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. From 1947-1950, in what Palestinians call the Nakba, or the catastrophe, Zionist militias (and later the Israeli army) expelled or instigated the flight of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. Roughly 100,000 Palestinian refugees sought shelter in Lebanon as a result of the Nakba and their presence was deemed a threat to the country's tenuous sectarian political system. [1] More than 60 years later, the government of Lebanon still does not provide publicly available statistics for Palestinian refugees in the country. In its January 2010 statistics report, the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) stated that there were currently 425,640 Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon. Of these, 53 percent reside in 12 official refugee camps, while the remainder lives in Lebanese cities and villages as well as in unofficial refugee camps or "Palestinian gatherings." [2] However, UNRWA's statistics are incomplete as they do not include unregistered Palestinian refugees who came to Lebanon between 1952 and 1956 or those who entered the country after 1970 and are considered "undocumented" Palestinians. [3]
Two co-ordinated bombs exploded at two locations in the Ugandan capital Kampala, targeting crowds watching the World Cup. Is Uganda paying a price for contributing to the peacekeeping force there? And is the Somalia conflict spilling over to other countries?| You are subscribed to email updates from Opinion To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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