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• Jeppe Søe: Forskel på retssikkerhed?
  KanDetPasse.dk følger fortsat Fønsby-retssagen i Odense, dog udelukkende med fokus på pressens dækning og de problemer der retssikkerhedsmæssigt bør drøftes [...] Se lignende artikler: Jeppe Søe: Pressen er et juridisk problem, LIVE Dag 3: Der er roligere udenfor, LIVE dag 4: En weekend med aviser, Glædespigen Sarah Gold undrer sig over hetzen i Odense, LIVE […]
• Den adelige ungarer I
    I disse dage for nøjagtig 50 år siden udspandt der sig nogle rørende scener i et hjørne af Københavns hovedbanegaard.  Cirka 40 små "wienerbørn" skulle rejse hjem til Østrig efter at have været på "stabiliserings- og opfedningsophold" hos danske familier. Een af disse var blogejerens. Wienerbørn Danmark, der havde været neutralt under 1 […]
• Knapt så populær ...
  Det er den tidligere britiske premierminister, Tony Blair, der har vist sig at være knapt så populær som han selv og muligvis andre troede, han var. Han har ladet skrive en selvbiografi, "The Journey", som udkom i forrige uge. I forbindelse med udgivelsen har der været arrangeret en del møder med publikum for at gøre […]
• Den velopdragne hund
  Dog and Shotgun, 1991 from "Suicide" by Bill Thomas Se også: Iskold på vippen, Arktiske nyheder, Plant et træ […]
• Sjove nyheder fra højre
  At vi i Danmark har fået et nyt parti ? "Værn om Danmark" ? har ikke ligefrem fyldt meget i nyhederne den sidste uges tid. ...og hvorfor har det så ikke det? Mon ikke det har noget med hele seriøsiteten og projektets fremtidsmuligheder at gøre? Ser man lidt nærmere på partiet, så er det stiftet af to meget underlige personligheder på den ekstreme h […]

180Grader

• Forbrugerfordummelse
  "Så længe et barn kører med støttehjul på cyklen, lærer det aldrig at holde balancen. Derfor tager forældrene på et tidspunkt støttehjulene af, selvom det resulterer i, at barnet får nogle skrammer og blå mærker. På Christiansborg er man - desværre - i gang med den modsatte øvelse," skriver Mie Harder (K) i Berlingske Tidende. […]
• De fattige kommer til at betale for Belgiens opløsning
  Indrømmet - overskriften, der stammer fra Politiken, er syg - men den er interessant, fordi den er symptomatisk for venstrefløjens forkvaklede billede af virkeligheden. De fattige valloner i Sydbelgien kommer ikke til at betale noget som helst, hvis Belgien opløses, men flamlænderne i nord slipper for at betale for at betale til de fattige... […]
• Et valg mellem socialdemokrater og ultrasocialdemokrater
  LEDER: Indtil for nylig stod kampen i dansk politik mellem oppositionen, der ville hæve skatten, og regeringen, der ville fastholde skatten på samme niveau med et skattestop. I dag vil regeringen imidlertid også hæve skatten. Oppositionen adskiller sig kun ved at ville hæve skatten endnu mere.Finansminister Claus Hjort Frederiksen kan af... […]
• Politiet kunne ikke fastslå Indisk mands identitet: Gav ham opholdstilladelse på ubegrænset tid og dansk indfødsret.
  Logik fra en anden planet. Der er ikke noget at sige til det morads vi er endt i når vi på den måde har skaltet og valtet med noget af det dyrebareste vi har; den danske indfødsret:"...Politiet kunne ikke fastslå hans identitet, og så fik han opholdstilladelse på ubegrænset tid i 1993. I 2001 fik han dansk indfødsret." [...] "...i... […]
• Danske virksomheder og velhavende privatpersoner har sendt over 1000 mia. kr. til 55 skattely-lande
  - Det her kan blive Danmarks største skattesag nogensinde. Beløbene overstiger langt hvad jeg havde frygtet, og jeg vil gerne melde klart ud, at Skat skal sikres alle nødvendige ressourcer til at kulegrave pengestrømmene, siger Troels Lund Poulsen til DR Nyheder. […]

IPS Middle East

• Poor Thirst as Nile Taps Run Dry
  The midday sun punishes a group of veiled women as they wait in line to fill their buckets and jerrycans. They have travelled on foot to a rusty tap on the outskirts of Cairo that gushes irrigation water never intended for human consumption. […]
• MIDEAST: Media New Battleground for Palestinians and Israelis
  Palestinians and Israelis are using the media as a new battleground in their war to win hearts and minds across the globe, even as the protracted conflict in the Mideast drags on with no apparent end in sight. […]
• MIDEAST: The Lights Are Going Out on Gaza
  The Muslim festival Eid approaches, but not the end to power cuts that have darkened the month-long Ramadan fasting leading up to the festival. Or to the agony of Gazans, made worse by the reminder that it's approaching festive time. […]

Tikkun Blogs

• From Jew’s-Sow to Muslim-Pigs: A Medieval Meme from Hitler to the Islamophobes
  Muslim-bashers like to style themselves as “defenders of Western civilization.” Like all effective lies, there’s a certain grain of truth to their assertion. They do not stand in the Western traditions that support reason, liberty and tolerance. They do, however, recycle themes and motifs that have appeared in previous waves of fear against “witches,” J […]
• Guest Post: “What’s in a Name? Córdoba’s History and Modern Consequence”
  Reid Smith has worked as a research associate specializing on U.S. policy in the Middle East and as a political speechwriter. He joined the University of Delaware’s Department of Political Science and International Relations as a graduate associate and doctoral candidate in fall 2010, and writes a regular blog for the Foreign Policy Association regarding Ir […]
• Changing Health Care Facts on the Ground
  Big things seem to happen on Wednesdays. A week ago Wednesday, we opened up a brand new innovative Health Commons in Rio Arriba County. A week from Wednesday, the Rio Arriba Community Health Council is meeting to untangle a Gordian knot caused by conflicting regulations attached to state and federal funding streams. If we […]

Robert Dreyfus

• Der er opstået en fejl - feedet er sikkert nede. Prøv igen senere.

Robert Fisk

• One woman's nightmare, and a crime against humanity
  Call her Hanan. She sits in front of me, a red scarf tied round her long intelligent face, her wide, bright eyes sparkling as she tells her story, her two-year-old son Omar restless on the chair beside her. To save the "honour" of her family – and to avoid being killed by her youngest brother – she has married her own rapist. To save the "ho […]
• The crimewave that shames the world
  It is a tragedy, a horror, a crime against humanity. The details of the murders – of the women beheaded, burned to death, stoned to death, stabbed, electrocuted, strangled and buried alive for the "honour" of their families – are as barbaric as they are shameful. Many women's groups in the Middle East and South-west Asia suspect the victims […]
• Robert Fisk: On the trail of a dead British major in Vichy Lebanon
  I was up in Tripoli again the other day – the venerable castle-crested, deep-souked Lebanese city with its broken steam locos, not the hot, mind-bleached, former Italian fascist version that Gaddafi runs – to poke around another graveyard. […]

Info Clearing House

• News For September 05, 2010
  Nuclear Hypocrisy UN Atomic Agency Curtails Probe of Israel’s Nuclear Capability By Jonathan Tirone Countries including Canada, the U.K. and U.S. opposed the probe, saying that the inquiry risked turning the IAEA into a political battleground, according to the documents. Others, including China, […]
• News For September 03, 2010
  British Military in Iraq A Shocking Legacy. By Felicity Arbuthnot The British, of course, having come in flying the St George's flag on their vehicles (the Crusaders' flag) slithered out of Basra city, under cover of darkness, to hunker down at the fortified airport, some distance outside the town, […]
• News For September 02, 2010
  Obama’s Iraq Speech An Exercise in Cowardice and Deceit By Bill Van Auken The most chilling passage came at the end of the 19-minute speech, when Obama declared, “Our troops are the steel in our ship of state,” adding, “And though our nation may be traveling through rough waters, they give us […]

Irshad Manji

• Is the U.S. Islamophobic? Irshad on MSNBC’s Hardball
  Click on image above to play video. […]
• “He is not an Islamist”: Irshad discusses Imam Rauf on Fox News
  http://video.foxnews.com/#/v/4321737/both-sides-wrong-on-mosque-issue/?playlist_id=86856 […]
• Irshad calls for public forum on “Ground Zero Mosque”
  Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy […]

Mondoweiss

• Settlement boom! 1000s of new homes underway! Gov’ts look away! and other news from
  Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Israeli Settlement Construction Booms Despite Ban In Washington, the Israelis and Palestinians are discussing peace, but in the Jewish settlements in the West Bank, construction is proceeding at full speed. A legal ban is being ignored and the government is looking away. The thousand […]
• Les cheveux, le chemise, les sans-boutons, l’ideologie– tout wrongee!!
  Don't get me wrong, I'm against the stoning of that Iranian woman for adultery, I'm against her lashing, I'm for women's liberation in Iran, I don't like the limitation on women's roles in Egypt and Gaza. And more than anything else, I believe that men should be able to dress as they please without social pressure […]
• Groundbreaking letter – ‘Israeli theatre artists have refused to allow their work to be used to normalize a cruel occupation . . .We stand with them’
  Update on the groundbreaking letter from 150 American actors, writers, directors and artists in support of the Israeli actors’ boycott of a theater in the West Bank settlement Ariel. The letter was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace and its signatoris include four Pulitzer Prize winners, Guggenheim Fellowship recipents, a MacArthur Fellowship, a National M […]

Saudi Jeans

• Free Ali Abdulemam
  I was shocked to learn that my friend Ali Abdulemam, a leading Bahraini blogger, was arrested yesterday by the Bahraini authorities for allegedly spreading “false news” on BahrainOnline.org portal, one of the most popular pro-democracy outlets in Bahrain. It is not the first time that Ali has been arrested for content published on his portal. […]
• Saudi video plea to Obama
  A group of Saudis have launched this video plea asking US president Barack Obama to pardon their countryman Humaidan al-Turki, who was convicted in a Colorado court four years ago for several crimes and was sentenced to 28 years in prison. The short video is well produced, and has racked up more than half a […]
• Free Entertainment
  Students at Columbia J-School don’t have much free time. And when they have some free time they probably don’t have much money to spend on entertainment. Can they have some fun without spending a fortune? PS. The artists featured in the piece are: Swear and Shake, Liz Tormes, and Lara Ewen. PPS. This is another […]

Babylon and Beyond

• IRAN: Was ancient fortress temple destroyed to make room for Basiji prayer center?
  Conflicting statements have emerged over whether the remains of a 2,000-year-old Parthian fortress known as Tappeh Dokhtar, or the "Virgin's Mound," dating from Iran's pre-Islamic past were recently demolished in the Iranian city of Hamadan to make room for a... […]
• WEST BANK: Palestinian Authority upset over Ahmadinejad's criticism of Mideast peace talks
  For a long time, statements by Iranian leaders about the Palestinian conflict have upset the Palestinian Authority and drew harsh criticism. This was evident again on Saturday, as the Palestinian Authority reacted to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's criticism of its... […]
• MUSLIM WORLD: Debate over planned mosque near ground zero seen as opportunity to set story straight about Islam
  The debate swirling around the planned Islamic cultural center two blocks from the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York has been steadily gaining attention in the U.S. and around the world. After weeks of protests, fiery... […]

Israel-Palestine blogs

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• Price tag reprisals in Hebron
  This article originally appeared on the Electronic Intifada. The Palestinian families which live along Route 60 in the South Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank have no recourse when settlers attack. The area is under full Israeli civil and military control, leaving the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority relatively helpless in dealing with problems caus […]
• The wisdom of the Newt. Again.
  (Looking for the Labor Day Weekend Open Thread? Go here). The other day, Nefarious Newt left the following as a comment on the “9/11 happened to us all” thread. As he so often does, Newt spoke movingly about emotions and truths that are meaningful to many. I wanted to give it a little more prominence, […]

Antiwar

• Lights Out in Gaza
  GAZA CITY – The Muslim festival Eid approaches, but not the end to power cuts that have darkened the month-long Ramadan fasting leading up to the festival. Or to the agony of Gazans, made worse by the reminder that it’s approaching a festive time. The prolonged electricity cuts, lasting from 12 to 16 hours daily, […]
  Mohammed Omer
• Devils and the Deep Blue Sea
  The non-victory-lap victory lap broadcast from the Oval Office last week showed beyond any lingering doubt that young Mr. Obama is every bit the prevaricator that young Mr. Bush was. But the mission semi-accomplished speech carried an even darker announcement: the unconditional surrender of our political leadership to the American Pentarchy, that malevolent […]
  Jeff Huber
• Obama Follows Bush on Iran
  When Barack Obama was running for the presidency in 2008, he wanted, first and foremost, to differentiate himself from George W. Bush, who was despised by a large majority of people practically everywhere on this planet. Obama had opposed the invasion of Iraq, and during his campaign he continued to criticize the invasion and its […]
  Muhammad Sahimi

Neweurasia

• How is Your Fast Going?
  Translation of Askhat’s post (RUS) Information about fasting during Ramadan is published at oraza.info, a website that also allows users to leave comments and ask questions. It’s amusing to read comments written by people who are ... […]
• CyberChaikhana’s religion chapter: “The Conversation of the Gods”
  The writing phase of neweurasia's ongoing CyberChaikhana post is nearing completion. neweurasia's Schwartz, who is writing the book, releases the first in a series of chapter rough drafts -- the chapter on religion. "Central Asia has always been a battleground, and not just between empires. Ideas, especially in the form of religions, have also […]
• Call for participants: “Painting a Fairer Picture: Improving the Coverage of Ethnic and other Minorities”
  Call for Participants “Painting a Fairer Picture: Improving the Coverage of Ethnic and other Minorities” A distance learning journalism course for media professionals and bloggers from Central Asia Transitions Online (TOL), a Prague-based international publishing and media development ... […]

Kejda Gjermani

• Mad Men Bores Me
  If you’ve never watched the show, then never mind this review. To the rest of you I submit that Mad Men is one fraud of a series—pretentious and empty. The first season fascinated me. Behind everything I saw and heard there seemed to be coming together the pieces of some very clever machinery of narration—tension […]
• Greece and Serbia FRIENDLY
  This must be seen to be believed: Errr: Some "friendly," eh? For his part in the brawl—you know, the chair-tossing and head-punching—Krstic was detained by police overnight, and has since been released. According to the Associated Press, Greece's "sports violence squad" is examining the footage and deciding whether or not to press […]
• A Lower Manhattanite’s Take on the Cordoba House
  As a three-year resident of Lower Manhattan whose apartment stands no farther from Ground Zero than the future Cordoba House—that is, a couple of blocks away—I might be expected to entertain no very tepid feelings toward this Islamic complex and the controversy it has provoked. As it happens, my take on the whole enterprise has […]

Angry Arab

• history of US bigotry
  "Anti-Semitic screeds regularly warned that Jews were plotting to destroy the United States in one way or another. A 1940 survey found that 17 percent of Americans considered Jews to be a “menace to America.”" […]
• history of US bigotry: now the Muslims are the menace
  "Anti-Semitic screeds regularly warned that Jews were plotting to destroy the United States in one way or another. A 1940 survey found that 17 percent of Americans considered Jews to be a “menace to America.”" […]
• Carlos and Saudi Arabia
  The son of the old Arab intelligence source who told me about Carlos (see item below from two days ago) wrote to me and said that I should have mentioned the money that Saudi Arabia sent to Carlos through a Romanian bank account (in the name of Mrs. To... […]

Sand monkey

• On Khaled Said
  A few years ago, I saw the french movie "Irréversible" , and like many movie watchers I was subjected to the-now infamous- utterly brutal and inescapable Monica Bellucci 9 minute rape and murder scene. That scene has left me disturbed beyond measure, not just for the extremely violent depiction of such a heinous act, but […]
• “So, Berlin, huh?”
  Right now, I am in my tiny but yet very space efficient room in a Hotel in Alexanderplatz, Berlin. Right now, I should be showering and getting ready for the day ahead. Our organizers said 9 am sharp…and I do hate to be late. But honestly, right now, all I want to do is write. I haven’t […]
• What happened there!
  So, the government decided to finally release the detained activists on Saturday, and they arrived on Saturday night back to Cairo, unharmed and all. There was no beating, there was no torture, unless you count having to spend a whole day and night in a small room without anything to lay or sit on […]

The Majlis

• B'Tselem: Settlements occupy 42 percent of West Bank
  The actual construction in the settlements occupies just 55,479 dunam of land, roughly 1 percent of the total area of the West Bank. But B'Tselem argues, based on official state documents and maps, that the jurisdiction of the settlements actually extends over 2.4 million dunam. […]
• Talking about direct talks: Netanyahu returns to the White House
  US president Barack Obama will use a White House meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to push for an extended West Bank settlement freeze. If Netanyahu doesn't offer one - and the domestic politics are quite difficult for him - it's hard to see any possibility of direct talks with the Palestinian Authority later this year. […]
• Ben-Eliezer makes "secret trip" to Turkey: Israeli TV
  Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to quietly mend fences with Turkey: He dispatched Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, his industry minister, on a secret mediation trip to Ankara, according to Israel's Channel 2 news. […]

Norman Finkelstein

• Remarkably sober and informative
  Nicolas Pelham September 2, 2010 (Nicolas Pelham is The Economist’s Palestinian affairs correspondent and […]
• Worth pondering
  Muslim men and women across the world are currently observing Ramadan, a month long celebration of self-purification and restraint. During Ramadan, the Muslim community fast, abstaining from food, drink, smoking and sex between sunrise and sunset. Muslims break their fast after sunset with an evening meal called Iftar, where a […]
• What we can do
  The United States recently extended an invitation to Israel and the Palestinian Authority to re-start direct talks. Both sides accepted. Tomorrow, Israel […]