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Chuck Spinney: Is Israel on a Grand-Strategic Pathway to Ruin?

In the below essay, famed Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery, a veteran of both the Irgun and Knesset, a hero of the 1948 War and true Israeli patriot, paints a portrait of Israel’s unfolding grand-strategic ruin. While Israel’s penchant for self destruction is self evident in Avnery’s exposition, the extent of Israel’s insanity becomes stunningly …

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Review: We Meant Well – How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People

Peter Van Buren  5.0 out of 5 stars Six Stars & Beyond–Open Heart Surgury on a Corrupt Ignorant Government,September 29, 2011 FINAL REVIEW The author himself begins the book with a reference to Dispatches (Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) followed by Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition, to which I would add A Rumor of War. …

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Chuck Spinney: How Israel is “Disappearing” Palestine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 The Occupation That Time Forgot The Disappearance of Palestine by SANDY TOLAN Counterpunch It’s the show that time and the world forgot. It’s called the Occupation and it’s now in its 45th year. Playing on a landscape about the size of Delaware, it remains largely hidden from view, while Middle Eastern headlines …

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