Rebel Newsflash: A letter to white racists (plus 23 more items) |  |
- A letter to white racists
- Not Zionism, not Judaism, Jewishness is the real threat
- Morning coffee with the emperor (in the land we wished we lived in)
- What's in a name? In a racist society, everything
- Thursday: 34 Iraqis Killed, 60 Wounded
- My Pen Pal, the Jihadist
- Why Muslims Should Rethink Palestine
- Ethnic Cleansing in the Negev
- Blair's undisclosed business dealings conflict with Quartet role
- Who Owns General Petraeus?
- The Afghanistan Files and the Poison of Lies
- White Racism: The Cold Truth
- It's All Greek to Me
- Who Voted for War With Iran, Mr. Obama?
- Stop Panicking About the Stingers
- Wednesday: 35 Iraqis Killed, 60 Wounded
- Nuking the Messenger
- Imprisoned Beliefs
- William Hague: The Right-Winger Who Wasn't
- 10 Things About Turning 40
- Documents of Mass Destruction
- Against Evil
- A Lack Conviction at Gitmo
- It's Not the Graveyard of Empires
| Posted: 30 Jul 2010 08:45 AM PDT  This has been bothering me for years. I've seen many manifestations and variations of it, some of it is truth but much of it is lies, and above all, this distraction we all participate in at one time or another - no matter what color we are - is an absolute waste of time that misses the point and hurts people needlessly. I'm talking about racism, and, in particular, white racism. What I want to say is this - anybody who plays this game is playing the game set up for us by the behind-the-scenes manipulators who rule the world, because blacks and whites and people of all other colors in between are all members of the same brotherhood - victims of the people who make a loud living pretending that THEY are the victims, when in fact they are really the victors in the neverending psychological war for control of the world. And you know by now who I'm talking about. That name of that group is something, since the time of Jesus and probably before, that we all are afraid to say out loud for the negative consequences it invariably brings. Our fear of smaller paychecks, or no paycheck at all, makes cowards of us all.  |
| Not Zionism, not Judaism, Jewishness is the real threat Posted: 29 Jul 2010 03:19 PM PDT  Here I say it. I don't like Jews. In fact, I hate them. What is there not to hate about them?! They represent everything that is wrong with mankind. They are hypocritical. They are a fraud. They lie. They cheat. They rape. They exploit. They are genocidal manic-depressed psychopaths. They are scum. Most fellow anti-Zionists are so obsessed with fending off the label of anti-Semitism that they embrace any Jew that criticises Israel. See, see, they say, the Jews say it themselves. Fools they are. They are like doctors trying to heel cancer with pain killers. Zionism is not the disease we need to eradicate. Zionism is only a symptom of a much more deadly threat: Jewishness.  |
| Morning coffee with the emperor (in the land we wished we lived in) Posted: 29 Jul 2010 02:16 PM PDT Like so many of you, I start each day with coffee and a little prayer of thanks that my eyelids have unglued themselves from each other yet another day. Gratitude is the key to everything, and you'd be surprised how many troubles it makes go away. I'm no different than most of you, except I've learned a few tricks along the way. In fact, I've learned some new tricks at age 65 that I dearly would have loved to learn at 16, but life doesn't work that way, does it? I don't rue too long, because regret is nothing more than a quick lesson to be learned, a quickened pain to be got rid of as fast as possible with the eternal hope that we're all smart enough to not make the same mistake twice.  |
| What's in a name? In a racist society, everything Posted: 29 Jul 2010 01:14 PM PDT
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| Thursday: 34 Iraqis Killed, 60 Wounded Posted: 29 Jul 2010 06:03 AM PDT  U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said he is wagering that sectarian violence will not surge after a massive reduction of U.S. combat troops next month. Ahead of that withdrawal, the violence continues. At least 34 Iraqis were killed and 60 more were wounded across the country. Security forces were targeted in several cities. In the latest news about the political impasse preventing the creation of the new government, Ayad Allawi said he is willing to step aside and allow another member of his Iraqiya party to take over as prime minister if it will settle the impasse. Not to be outdone in the headlines, a member of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law party insisted that Maliki's return to the office would allay both U.S. and Iranian fears. Indeed, Iran may be demanding that Maliki continue in his role. Meanwhile, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said he is embarrassed over his government's paralysis. He even admitted to avoiding foreign visits over the issue.  |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2010 02:46 AM PDT  Zachary Adam Chesser, better known by his Internet sobriquet of "Abu Talhah al-Amrikee," is the 20-year-old Virginia man who was indicted this month for supporting a Somalia-based al Qaeda affiliate, al-Shabab. Most Americans learned of him in April 2010, when Chesser's media stunt wishing death upon the creators of the South Park cartoon thrust him into the national spotlight. I came to know him in a different, more personal way and believe that as frightening as the "American Jihadi" headlines surrounding him have been, the portrait that has emerged of Chesser in recent months is still a caricature that unfortunately obscures the very reason "Abu Talhah" was so dangerous.  |
| Why Muslims Should Rethink Palestine Posted: 29 Jul 2010 02:24 AM PDT  Thousands of faithful assiduously listened as I outlined the challenges facing Palestine and its people. Cries of 'Allahu Akbar' – God is Great – occasionally resounded from a corner of the giant South African mosque. Many whimpered as I described the tragedy that had befallen Gaza as a result of the Israeli siege. They cheered, smiled and nodded as I emphasized how the will of the Palestinian people would not be defeated. A few older people at the front simply wept throughout my talk, which preceded a Friday sermon in Durban a few months ago.  |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2010 02:06 AM PDT  A menacing convoy of bulldozers was heading back to Be'er Sheva as I drove towards al-Arakib, a Bedouin village located not more than 10 minutes from the city. Once I entered the dirt road leading to the village I saw scores of vans with heavily armed policemen getting ready to leave. Their mission, it seems, had been accomplished.  |
| Blair's undisclosed business dealings conflict with Quartet role Posted: 28 Jul 2010 11:10 PM PDT
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| Posted: 28 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT  Anyone who has ever served in the military would confirm that to become a general in the armed forces of the United States requires highly developed political skills. One must be politically astute to guide large military forces while at the same time answering to largely ignorant constituencies in Congress, the White House, and the media. Many generals tire of the exercise after a certain point and retire to well paid sinecures on the boards of defense contractors. Others stage their own forms of rebellion, speaking the truth and walking the plank as a reward. Admiral William Fallon insisted in 2008 that there would be no war with Iran on his watch. He was forced to retire soon after. More recently, General Stanley McChrystal voiced his displeasure with the White House's management of the Afghan war to a journalist and likewise was forced into early retirement.  |
| The Afghanistan Files and the Poison of Lies Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:26 PM PDT  From Vietnam to Afghanistan: You can't wage war against the truth. And you shouldn't, because it's not truth that's endangering national security. Some downplay the matter, others want to study it and the Americans have yet to react. After the release of secret U.S. documents concerning the war in Afghanistan on the Internet WikiLeaks platform, the British foreign minister appears disinterested. The German minister of defense wants to determine whether German security concerns were affected. In a similar case, the U.S. government has already previously determined that it endangers national security.  |
| Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:00 PM PDT  Strange things are happening. In the stifled, constipated political discourse of the modern West, there are quite wide categories of facts that are rather obviously true, but which it has for decades been considered gross bad manners to mention aloud. Now, suddenly, we are seeing those facts printed in respectable organs of news and opinion. Early signs of a paradigm shift? Or just a momentary aberration?  |
| Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:00 PM PDT  Athens. As everyone knows, Sigmund Freud was a fraud, and like many frauds he thought the Parthenon might also be one. But he summoned his nerve and visited the sacred sight and was delighted as well as shocked at what he saw. This was 1904. Like other visitors Freud dreaded that the real thing might not live up to his expectations, but it did and continues to do so today. Unlike other cultural icons—the Mona Lisa, the Pyramids—the Parthenon never disappoints, and even a philistine like Bill Clinton has been photographed misty-eyed between the columns.  |
| Who Voted for War With Iran, Mr. Obama? Posted: 28 Jul 2010 01:16 PM PDT  House of Representatives resolution 1553, introduced by Congressional Republicans, and currently working its way through the system will endorse an Israeli attack on Iran, which would be going to war by proxy as the US would almost immediately be drawn into the conflict when Tehran retaliates. The resolution provides explicit US backing for Israel to bomb Iran, stating that Congress supports Israel's use of "all means necessary…including the use of military force". The resolution is non-binding, but it is dazzling in its disregard for the possible negative consequences that would ensue for the hundreds of thousands of US military and diplomatic personnel currently serving in the Near East region. Even the Pentagon opposes any Israeli action against Iran, knowing that it would mean instant retaliation against US forces in Iraq and also in Afghanistan. The resolution has appeared, not coincidentally, at the same time as major articles by leading neoconservatives Reuel Marc Gerecht and Bill Kristol calling for military action. AIPAC thinks it is wonderful.  |
| Stop Panicking About the Stingers Posted: 28 Jul 2010 08:52 AM PDT  Of all the stories being plucked from WikiLeaks' classified Afghanistan war logs, many analysts have picked out the Taliban's use of heat-seeking missiles as the most troubling. Remembering how the mujahideen used missiles to drive Soviet aircraft from the skies, pundits worried that the Taliban would inflict a similar pain upon American planes and helicopters in Afghanistan. But for those of us who follow the illicit arms trade, the documents simply underscore what we already knew: The Taliban has failed to reproduce the devastatingly effective anti-aircraft campaign that brought the Red Army to its knees in the mid-1980s.  |
| Wednesday: 35 Iraqis Killed, 60 Wounded Posted: 28 Jul 2010 05:52 AM PDT Updated at 8:21 p.m. EDT, July 28, 2010 At least 35 Iraqis were killed and 60 more were wounded, mostly in two attacks against Shi'ites in Baghdad and Karbala. At a British inquiry, General Richard Dannatt said that the simultaneous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan nearly broke the British military in 2006, when he took over as commander. Also, P.M. Maliki blamed foreign influence for a political impasse that many Iraqis view as his party's own creation.  |
| Posted: 28 Jul 2010 04:54 AM PDT  I'm flattered that my essay on the decline of the Republican foreign-policy establishment has temporarily converted Foreign Policy's Shadow Government blog into a forum devoted to enumerating my deficiencies in examining the GOP. If anything, I thought that in examining this topic, I might well be accused of carrying coals to Newcastle. Instead, my critics contend that I couldn't have got it more wrong: intellectual ferment is alive and well in the Grand Old Party.  |
| Posted: 28 Jul 2010 03:44 AM PDT  The Karachi Central Jail, an elegant, 111-year-old, fortress-like sandstone building, is home to some of Pakistan's most notorious prisoners. Ahmad Omar Sheikh, one of the men who killed Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, is housed here, along with the extremists who attacked the U.S consulate in Karachi in 2006. Behind its arched, rust-colored metal gate, convicted murderers and petty criminals mingle in bare, cramped barracks that were meant for 1,800 but hold 3,800.  |
| William Hague: The Right-Winger Who Wasn't Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:08 PM PDT  Tories perturbed by the party's lackluster election and shacking up with the Ludicrous Democrats were mollified by the inclusion in the Cabinet of William Hague as Foreign Secretary. Since those delicious Brown-defenestrating days, the straight-talking Yorkshire darling of the grassroots has been given an opportunity of setting his own rightwing stamp on the Coalition's coition. Hague the Younger was admittedly objectionable, starting with a cringe-making speech to conference aetatis 16, all floppy hair and free trade. Later, there were artfully sideways baseball caps, his max respec' for Dubya-, Serb-, and Saddam-bashing and, in between all this, utterly unconvincing rhetoric about Britons "living in a foreign land" or us having "three weeks to save the pound." Such sallies caused 66% of voters in a famous 2001 poll to conclude that the then Leader of HM Loyal Opposition was "a bit of a wally," and 70% of them to agree that he "would say almost anything to win votes."  |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:00 PM PDT  After 39 years of not being 40, I decided to give it a try. Being two score is unlike anything before it so I feel it would be prudent to warn you about a few things… 1) YOU DON'T CARE WHAT PEOPLE THINK  |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2010 11:29 AM PDT  There's a good reason why history teachers -- and I am one -- assign our students primary source material: The distinctive sound of that voice, from that place and that time, offers us an insight, or an intuition, that explanation alone cannot afford. If you want to know war, read soldiers' letters home. Or watch Restrepo. Or plow through the clotted acronyms of the 92,000 incident records from Afghanistan unearthed this week by WikiLeaks.  |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2010 08:05 AM PDT  One could assume that the dubious straw men invented by Peter Beinart ("Think Again: Ronald Reagan" July/August 2010) are the result of innocent misconstruction. After all, Beinart was only 10 years old when Ronald Reagan became president and began the daunting task of re-establishing American pride, confidence and global leadership after Jimmy Carter's disastrous presidency. But it is more likely yet another example of the refusal of liberals to acknowledge the success of Reagan's Cold War policies: first, rebuilding a disastrously diminished security establishment (diplomatic and political as well as military), then challenging the Soviet Union in a way that surely hastened the demise of the "evil empire."  |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2010 03:21 AM PDT  August and September will be big months for the U.S. prosecutors at Guantánamo Bay. Three cases will be moving forward, the first to trial on Aug. 10, a second to pretrial hearings in early September, and a third likely to hearings sometime this fall. Three doesn't sound like many cases, but in context, the number is huge. In the eight previous years that the commissions have been open, they have prosecuted just four terrorism suspects -- none of them high-level al Qaeda operatives. Prosecutors are framing these coming months as proof that the military-tribunal model is working. Common sense, however, says it's not: Federal courts have tried 100 times as many accused terrorists during the same time frame, with far better results.  |
| It's Not the Graveyard of Empires Posted: 26 Jul 2010 11:49 AM PDT  It's the mother of all clichés. Almost no one can resist it. It's wielded by everyone from thoughtful ex-generals to vitriolic bloggers. It crops up everywhere from Russia's English-language TV channel to scruffy Pakistani newspapers to America's stately National Public Radio. The Huffington Post can't seem to live without it, and one recent book even chose it as a title. Afghanistan, we're told, is "the graveyard of empires."  |
Names have always been political. Throughout history different regimes have used naming as a means of racial or religious identification. In Nazi Germany a 1938 law obliged Jews to add Sara or Israel to their names so as to eliminate ethnic confusion. And in my own country, Northern Ireland, even without a law, a name could determine one's success in life.
Tony Blair's term as envoy of the Quartet (US, UK, Russia, UN) has been marked by many photo opportunities but few, if any, accomplishments. Indeed, research shows that Blair's relationship with one of the world's richest men poses a clear and significant conflict of interest with his duties as Quartet envoy.
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