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Robert Dreufuss: Chalabi-faktoren i Irak

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• Når tosser kommunikerer, del 2 (BURN A QURAN DAY, fake church ad)
  Fordi tilgivelsens religion har noget røv at sparke. Af D.C. Douglas (via Boing Boing). […]
• Svar til Politiken
  Politikens indlands-redaktør Jakob Nielsen skriver den 8. september 2010 en slags leder, hvor han afslører total mangel på indsigt i, [...] No related posts. […]
• Hvornår kommer skipper Clement?
  Hvornår kommer skipper Clement? Landmænd har i 20 år glædet sig til den dag, de i "fællesmarkedet" kunne få lige vilkår med andre folk. Nu har vi i 6 år været medlem af "det nye Europa". Ligeret er der dog kun blevet lidt af. Politikerne har brændt landmændene af og som en sværtet "sorteper" har bonden mistet næsten hele gevinst […]
• Så meget kan DU spare
  Denne artikel er fra bladet EnergiNyt, som Energihjem.dk producerer. Bladet er netop sendt ud til cirka 5000 husejere, men har du ikke modtaget det, kan du læse det online under den følgende artikel: Forestil dig et ganske almindeligt dansk hus, hvor der bor en ganske almindelig dansk familie. Far, mor og to børn deler huset på 130 kvadratmeter. Huset er fra […]
• Quiz 102: Hvilken betegnelse
  Betegnelsen dækker over små, praktiske, laminerede noter indeholdende opskrifter på brød og boller, som bagere tager med i bageriet. Svar findes her. […]

180Grader

• Rapport: Nedturen for "den britiske pub" skyldes rygeforbud
  Rygeforbud dræber den engelske pub: - Indførslen af rygeforbud i England, Skotland og Irland bærer hovedansvaret for den konkursbølge, der har lukket mange tusinde pubber og barer på den anden side af Nordsøen de sidste 3-5 år. Det viser en ny konsulentrapport fra London-virksomheden CR-Consulting, lavet for den engelske sammenslutning... […]
• Sveriges 16 mest efterlyste forbrydere...
  Find Holg...øhh Hr. Svensson. Sveriges mest eftersøgte: Azed Abdelkarim, Omar Hassan, Dejan Dodos, Galak Osman, Oday Almohamadawi, Ramunus Buzunas, Naser Saiti, Donald Roskic, Denho Acar, Victor Rousomberg, Sergei Albiev, Kok Wing Chan, Pasi Miettinen, Victor Olsson og Jonas Lundén. Ufatteligt at denne liste overhovedet... […]
• KW: "Måske vil de prøve at slå mig ihjel, og måske vil de lykkes. Men tegningen kan de ikke dræbe"
  "“In my opinion you can’t compare Islam with Christianity. It isn’t a likeable religion, rather in all sorts of regards, a reactionary religion,” he said." Når historien skal skrives vil én mand skille sig helt afgørende ud fra alle os andre dødelige danskere. Kurt Westergaard. Han vil stå som et fyrtårn for kommende... […]
• Merkels smukke gestus til Kurt Westergaard
  LEDER: Så gjorde den tyske forbundskansler, Angela Merkel, hvad ingen ledende dansk politiker på nær Pia Kjærsgaard har turdet gøre: Hun mødte avistegneren Kurt Westergaard, der er blevet verdenskendt på at have tegnet den muslimske profet Muhammed med en bombe i turbanen. Westergaard, som siden den danske Muhammed-krise har måttet... […]
• FOA afviser DF-annonce i medlemsblad
  Fagforeningen FOA nægter at bringe en annonce for Dansk Folkeparti i medlemsbladet. Det skriver bt.dk. - Det er ikke sådan, at vi ikke vil have annoncer fra politiske partier. Men det er det, at man går målrettet efter indvandrere fra ikke-vestlige lande. Vi har 7-8000 i vores forbund, som kommer fra ikke-vestlige lande, og dem ønsker vi... […]

IPS Middle East

• US: Religious Leaders Condemn Growing Islamophobia
  Leaders of some three dozen mainstream U.S. religious denominations Tuesday condemned what many commentators have called a rising tide of Islamophobia touched off by the recent controversy over the construction of a Muslim community centre in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from the site of the twin World Trade Centre towers destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attac […]
• BAHRAIN: No Change Seen in Ban on Entry of People with HIV
  Bahrain may be dependent on expatriate labour, but that has not stopped it from deporting migrant workers who are found to be HIV-positive. […]
• 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. […]

Tikkun Blogs

• America Needs Repentance: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Atonement Are Not Just for Jews
  Now that the Iraq war is supposedly winding down, America needs a period of reflection, repentance and atonement before rushing into more of the same mistakes we’ve been making globally and domestically. So I’d like to invite my non-Jewish neighbors and friends and allies in the struggle to heal and transform America to join with […]
• The Myth of Ashkenaz
  True myth may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero – really look – and he turns into […]
• Bishop Gene Robinson Speaks About Obama and “The Left”
  A few weeks ago, the congregants of Temple Beth Shalom in Santa Fe were honored by a visit from Bishop Gene Robinson who delivered the evening’s d’Var Torah. Bishop Robinson is the first openly gay Episcopal Bishop. He was invited to Santa Fe as Grand Marshall of the Gay Pride parade. When Rabbi Marvin Schwab learned […]

Robert Dreyfus

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Robert Fisk

• Robert Fisk: The lie behind mass 'suicides' of Egypt's young women
  There's a sewer outside Azza Suleiman's office, a hot ditch in which the filth of one of Cairo's worst slums has been reduced to a slowly moving swamp of black liquid. A blue mist of exhaust fumes and dust moves down alleyways thick with scarved women, men in white robes, coffee sellers, donkey carts and garbage boys, the five- and six-year-ol […]
• Robert Fisk: Relatives with blood on their hands
  "So far, I've lost eight women from my shelter," Hina Jilani says. "One went out for a job in town, she left our shelter, got on a bus – and was gunned down by her brother. Her name was Shagofta, she was in her late twenties. She had already married the man she loved but the parents had disapproved. Her brother got straight off the bus a […]
• Robert Fisk: 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 […]

Info Clearing House

• News For September 08, 2010
  The American Occupation of Afghanistan The Birth of a National Liberation Movement By Prof. Marc W. Herold The Taliban inherited a devastated country, torn apart during six years of warlord in-fighting. Few state structures or institutions existed. Moreover, the background of the Taliban hardly […]
• News For September 07, 2010
  Sentencing Terrorism Suspects to Death -- Without Trial By Anthony D. Romero and Vincent Warren We simply cannot accept the proposition that the government should have unchecked authority to carry out extrajudicial killings, including of U.S. citizens, far from any actual battlefield. Nor can we accept the […]
• 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, […]

Irshad Manji

• Is the U.S. Islamophobic? Irshad on MSNBC’s Hardball
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• “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”
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Mondoweiss

• Maybe it should have been called ‘why Israel doesn’t care about traffic accidents’
  The ADL is not happy with Time. The organization sent the magazine a letter today in response to it's current cover article, "Why Israel Doesn't Care About Peace." The gist of the article is that Israel is doing so well economically that its more affluent citizens don't really care about making peace with the Palestinians. […]
• Jeff Halper to Pete Seeger: Ditch the JNF and honor the boycott
  Dear Pete, All the best from your friends in Israel/Palestine. In that spirit, I was surprised to hear of your planned participation in With Earth and Each Other: A Virtual Rally for a Better Middle East. While at first blush it might seem to have something in common with the work of ICAHD and other Israeli […]
• Bibi wants a Palestinian state…by 2040
  According to the Telegraph, Netanyahu hopes to kick the Palestinian state can down the road by as much as 30 years.Mr Netanyahu is reportedly hoping that the agreements reached under an accord would be phased in stage-by-stage over as much as 30 years.Israel reportedly hopes that a protracted timetable would test the viability of a […]

Saudi Jeans

• Mas que un equipo
  At the end of their first month at Columbia J-School, students are expected to produce a short audio slideshow to demonstrate the basic skills they acquired in audio and photo reporting. Below is my slideshow. It is about a football (Americans call it “soccer”) player who immigrated from Ecuador ten years ago. What do you […]
• 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 […]

Babylon and Beyond

• ISRAEL: Actors threaten settlement boycott, lawmaker acts up
  Israel is dogged by boycott initiatives from different directions. Academic, commercial and cultural ties are threatened as organizations and individuals protesting Israel's policies turn to boycotting in an attempt to apply practical pressure that will lead to change -- or... […]
• EGYPT: Can controversial television series work in favor of Muslim Brotherhood?
  Will a television miniseries about the history of Egypt's biggest political opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, undermine or promote the group's image in the eyes of millions of viewers in the Arab world? Named "Al Gama'a" or "The Group" and... […]
• ISRAEL: Class dismissed on democracy to make room for Bible studies
  Can Israel be a democratic and Jewish state at the same time? It's a divisive, long-running debate that has now found its way into the classroom -- or rather, it's about to get kicked out of school.Israeli Education Ministry officials... […]

Israel-Palestine blogs

• J Street Condemns Quran Burning Planned in Florida
  Acts of hate like these desecrate the values of tolerance and religious freedom on which this country was founded and provide fodder for extremism around the world. This anti-Muslim act is the latest in a deeply disturbing series of events in recent weeks, some which have involved physical violence. […]
• Burning books, burning bodies, burning bridges
  “Burn, baby, burn.” One might expect these words to come from a comedian as much as an arsonist. If you put the name “Terry Jones” into Google you will find a comedian. That is Terence Graham Parry Jones of Monty Python fame. These days there is another Terry Jones, a “Rev.ed” […]
• Spanish parliament condemns Bil’in leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s conviction
  The Spanish Parliament followed the footsteps of the EU and the Desmond Tutu of the Elders, and joined the rising tide of international criticism over Abu Rahmah’s conviction of incitement by an Israeli military court. The Spanish Parliament’s Intergroup for Palestine issued a statement that expressed their “deep concern that Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s potent […]

Antiwar

• Calls for Change of Afghan Strategy Grow Louder
  Amid continued high levels of violence and a steady stream of reports of high-level government corruption in Kabul, a growing number of foreign policy specialists are urging President Barack Obama to reconsider his counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy in Afghanistan. In a new report released here Wednesday, a bipartisan group of some three dozen former senior o […]
  Jim Lobe
• The Indefensible Drones: A Ground Zero Reflection
  Kathy Kelly on her upcoming trial […]
  Kathy Kelly
• US Leaving Iraq in Worse Shape Than Saddam
  At least $5B wasted on shoddy buildings, says Michael O'Brien […]
  Michael O'Brien

Neweurasia

• The Distinguishing Features of Border Guards
  Translation of sabinareingold’s post (RUS) It’s no secret that I travel fairly frequently to neighboring Kazakhstan, specifically to Almaty, of which I am a longtime admirer. I know the city well, but that will not be ... […]
• 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 […]

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 is situated 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 […]

Angry Arab

• Decent Americans
  "Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, said: “We know what it is like when people have attacked us physically, have attacked us verbally, and others have remained silent. It cannot happen here in Amer... […]
• funding hate
  "WASHINGTON - A woman who with her husband has contributed large sums to pro-Israel and Jewish groups is the principal funder of the group that has taken the lead in opposing an Islamic center in lower Manhattan.  Jihad Watch, the group that is... […]
• Justice in Israel
  "An Israel Defense Forces soldier found guilty of manslaughter in the 2003 death of a British peace activist was released Wednesday, after serving three quarters of his sentence." (thanks Olivia) […]

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

• My personal heroes
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• Gideon Levy at his best
  Pfc. Aluf Benn spent his years in the army in the Military Police in Lebanon. Yesterday, with commendable courage, he revealed his military routines in these pages ("When I was Eden Abergil"). He handcuffed and blindfolded people countless times and led many detainees to their cages. He saw […]
• So, now we know they’ll be targeting “hospitals, and homes and schools” in the next war
  WASHINGTON (AFP) – Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, warned Friday that Hezbollah has placed around 15,000 rockets along Lebanon’s border with Israel, including some that could hit southern Eilat. “The Syrian-Iranian backed Hezbollah poses a very serious threat to Israel,” Oren said in a conference call focused mainly on the new direct [. […]