The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The popular perception of Hezbollah as simply an Islamic terrorist organization has been colored by American-Israeli propaganda (particularly wrt to relations with Iran and Syria), sloppy reporting, and a growing sense of Islamophobia in American culture. Rami Khouri is a prolific Lebanese intellectual who writes widely on the Middle East. His austere, direct form of …
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Below is a very interesting summary of the political tensions among secularism and religion and modernism and tradition in Tunisia. I think the author, who I do not know but whose writings I have followed, is one of the most knowledgeable observers of the Arab Spring. Chuck Spinney Washington Report on Middle East Affairs April …
He calls it the “Cancer of American Journalism” Robert Fisk: We Might As Well Name Our Newspapers ‘Officials Say’ May 7, 2013 Watch the full 20-minute interview with Robert Fisk on Democracy Now! at http://owl.li/kN9jD. Longtime Middle East correspondent of the British newspaper The Independent, Robert Fisk, tells Democracy Now! that journalists covering Syria and …
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I visited Levantine Syria [1] for three memorable days in 2008 and was struck by the welcoming, friendly nature of the Syrian people, their effusive pride in Syria’s multicultural heritage, and a pervasive atmosphere of optimism. I had the impression Syria was emerging from the darkness of the Hafez Assad dictatorship. To be sure, his …
Provided by a retired Marine colonel and apparently written by a former Servicemember and/or law enforcement officer, following is among very best articles on Second Amendment issue that I’ve ever read.) Snell: Waking the dragon — How Feinstein fiddled while America burned By Barry Snell, barry.snell@iowastatedaily.com | Posted: Friday, May 3, 2013 12:00 am Along with …
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Anatomy of a False Flag By Stephen Lendman – Posted on 21 April 2013 False flags are an American tradition. They go way back. The Boston bombings appear the latest. More on that below. Notable earlier false flags or incidents approximating them include: In 1845, America lawlessly annexed Texas. It was Mexican territory. President James …
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Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet By David Goldman @CNNMoneyTech April 8, 2013: 1:41 PM ET “When people don’t see stuff on Google, they think no one can find it. That’s not true.” That’s according to John Matherly, creator of Shodan, the scariest search engine on the Internet. Shodan runs 24/7 and collects …
