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  • NEOCONS-ZIONISM AND THE RETURN OF "RACE"
    14 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ...The Israeli ambassador to Australia .. told Haaretz that the two countries are white sisters amid "the yellow race" of Asia.
    "Tamir said that due to what he characterized as the racial similarities between Israel and Australia, the two countries should work together to enhance ties with other Asian countries.
    "Israel and Australia are like sisters in Asia," Tamir said in an interview with Haaretz during a visit to Israel this week. "We are in Asia without the characteristics of (…)

  • What the U.S.and Iraq share in common:...you might be surprised!
    9 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Both the US and Iraq share the shame of racial and cultural discrimination.
    Both countries have severe laws against sexual deviancy,yet gross violations are the order of the day.
    Both countries have drug smuggling and sales problems which they cannot bring under control.
    Both countries share a long history of violent behavior toward their neighbors, torture and illegal incarceration being part of it.
    Both have had civil war; one in uniform and "official", one out of uniform and (…)

  • Bush and Islam: Words versus Deeds
    28 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Nicola Nasser* The wide gap between U.S. President George W. Bush’s words and deeds vis-à-vis Islam and Muslims doomed to failure his speech at the United nations on September 19, which could neither appease Muslims nor pacify the ever growing Islamophobia. Hardly a week had passed since his speech than Winston Churchill - author, journalist, former Member of Parliament and grandson of the former British prime minister - was speaking at an American university to condemn “Radical (…)

  • It must be Mad Cow Disease!
    23 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Nowadays, British politicians go around in heavily-guarded, bullet-proof vehicles. They no longer expose themselves to the rough-and-tumble of what used to be politics until about twenty years ago. I’m getting old, I can remember Quintin Hogg electioneering on Chiswick Common in West London, standing on a platform ringing a huge bell both to make his point and to drown out any hecklers. An old Tory rogue who brought a little bit of entertainment to the hustings.
    Unlike the present (…)

  • A Catholic Stamp to an U.S. War
    23 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nicola Nasser* No mistake, the Successor of Saint Peter, the Vicar of Christ on Earth, the Sovereign Pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI has erred and the damage is done: His anti-Islam remarks are out and cannot be retracted, like bullets that cannot be retrieved once shot, adding a Catholic stamp to the Evangelist “Islam versus the West” justification for the U.S. neoconservative-led “WWIII on Islam.” (1) Coincidently the Pope and the U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday expressed “a (…)

  • Tolerating Intolerance by In the name of security, but not for its sake
    23 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Remi Kanazi
    Pope Benedict XVI is not having a good week and yet doesn’t seem to mind. Upsetting one out of every five people living today may be of no concern for the His Holiness-made evident by his half-hearted, “sorry my infallible words offended you” apology-but one can surely understand why some Muslims took offense to his recent speech. Were his comments his own words-maybe not-but it doesn’t take a scholar to comprehend the inappropriateness in referencing 14th century Byzantine (…)

  • Wake up and smell the coffee!
    21 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    While listening to the News I was in my kitchen, preparing supper. When I saw Abu Izzadeen shouting at Reid my initial feelings were those of excitement that somebody was having a go at the thug who himself was looking dazed and bemused by the sudden attack.
    Then I began to feel uncomfortable, even embarrassed. Clearly, Reid and the media were loving it and doing everything to show up Izzadeen as an "extremist" and a dangerous clown.
    Why was I feeling uncomfortable and embarrassed, I (…)

  • Historic Latino Congreso Takes Strong Anti-War Stand
    14 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Medea Benjamin
    Billed as the most comprehensive gathering of Latino leaders in the US in three decades, over 1,600 delegates and observers attended the Latino Congreso in Los Angeles from September 6-10. The Congreso grew out of the massive mobilizations of Latinos this spring for immigrant rights, and was a forum to discuss not only the status of immigration reform, but also a wide range of issues from how to best use Latino voting power to global warming to the economic empowerment of (…)

  • Inalienable Human Rights are not Privileges: ACLU Sets the Standard in Struggle for "Liberty and Justice for All"
    11 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Miller
    Ecclesiastes tells us there is “no new thing under the sun.” Marsha West’s article entitled American Christian Loathers Union provides us with a pertinent and timely example of this aphorism.
    Throughout the religion’s history, various practitioners of Christianity have defied the compassionate teachings of Christ to perpetrate hateful, fear-mongering, and sometimes quite lethal campaigns against those who do not share their beliefs. The Inquisitions, the Salem Witch (…)

  • Latino Leaders Convene First National Latino Congress in a Generation
    11 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Aaron Glantz
    SAN FRANCISCO. Thousands of Latino community leaders from across the country convened in Los Angeles Wednesday for what organizers say is the first massive gathering of Latino community leaders, organizations, and elected officials since 1977.
    "The Latino Congresso is deigned to do something that the Congress in Washington is not doing—paying attention to issues of importance to the Latino community," explained John Trasvina, who heads up the Mexican American Legal (…)