Politics

“Ben & Jerry” on US Federal spending

by Haitham Sabbah August 27, 2004

Ben Cohan made an very cute but informative animation on US Federal spending in support of truemajorityaction.org. Check it out :-)

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The Church of Bush

by Haitham Sabbah August 7, 2004

What liberal infidels will never understand about the president. by Rick Perlstein Here are some things that Christopher Nunneley, a conservative activist in Birmingham, Alabama, believes. That some time in June, apparently unnoticed by the world media, George Bush negotiated an end to the civil war in Sudan. That Bill Clinton is “lazy” and Teresa [...]

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Terrorist Alerts

by Haitham Sabbah August 6, 2004

Most of the material regarding security systems and procedures at the five buildings was assembled prior to the 9/11/2001 attacks. Surely some security procedures have been changed since then. So government spokesmen were forced to respond to questions about the relevancy and immediacy of the material. “We know this is a terrorist organization that does its homework,” Homeland Security Czar Tom Ridge said. “Al Qaeda often plans well, well in advance. We also know that they like to update their information before a potential attack.”

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Palestinians Starve Under Occupation

by Laila El-Haddad August 2, 2004

At the entrance to the Ard al-Insan clinic in Gaza, also known as the Palestinian Benevolent Association, Iman Jilawi was pleading with programme director Itimad Ghabil. By Laila El-Haddad in Gaza Her daughter had just been released from the hospital after intestinal surgery, she said, and she did not have the money to pay for [...]

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Kerry is a mass-murderer. Bush is psycho. What’s a voter to do?

by Haitham Sabbah July 31, 2004

A Question of Character! by Justin Raimondo The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that we’re reliving the last days of the Roman Empire. Of course, that’s not all bad, especially if you like peeled grapes, gladiatorial games, and those cute little tunics on men: but it isn’t all fun and games, [...]

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Whomever You Are They Will Kill You

by Haitham Sabbah July 18, 2004

On 6 July 2004 Professor Khaled Salah of An-Najah National University, along with son Muhammad, were killed by an Israeli attack unit. The Salah home was later demolished by six helicopter rockets. A press conference by the wife and daughter of Prof. Khaled Salah “If I am Palestinian they will kill me…If I am American [...]

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BLOODY UNIFORM

by Haitham Sabbah July 17, 2004

Q. You’re married? A. Right. Q. Children? A. Two. Q. How old? A. The boy is two and a half, and the little girl is a year and a half. Q. Obviously, the question comes to my mind… the father of two little kids like that… how can he shoot babies? A. I didn’t have [...]

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A Letter from the Hunger Strikers’ Tent

by Haitham Sabbah July 12, 2004

Protesting Israel’s Apartheid Wall By TOUFIC HADDAD writing from day 5 of the solidarity tent in Ar Ram where at least 17 people have joined in on the hunger strike protesting Israel’s apartheid wall. Despite the heat wave (36 centigrade) there is a good atmosphere in the tent, and the hunger strikers – though visibly [...]

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US media and Israeli “Gaza pullout” charade

by Haitham Sabbah July 7, 2004

A Palestinian youth, bearing signs of physical violence, is seen in an undated picture which was shown in a Jerusalem court by the Israel Justice Ministry, June 1, 2004 at the start of a trial against three Israeli border policemen. The policemen were arrested this week for allegedly abusing two 17-year old Palestinians about a [...]

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Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. Blind, Or A Coward?

by Haitham Sabbah July 4, 2004

One of the first things I did when I got back from vacation was to go see Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. It’s a brilliant piece of propaganda, entertaining and funny, and it skewers the president deliciously. But am I the only one to notice that in one critically important way, it entirely misses the boat [...]

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Israel Stab Americans in the Back

by Haitham Sabbah June 25, 2004

Israel plays the Kurdish card and Americans are caught in the crossfire. By Justin Raimondo The victors in the Iraq war are now moving rapidly to consolidate their gains, and carry out the second phase of their operation. No, I don’t mean the June 30 American handover of pseudo-”sovereignty” to a puppet regime, but the [...]

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Israel’s Intelligence Scandal

by Uri Avnery June 22, 2004

Irreversible Mental Damage By URI AVNERY* The Israeli national security assessor admits that the stress caused by his difficult job has inflicted on him irreversible mental damage. The High Priest of the “We Have No Partner” creed is General (res.) Amos Gilad, who at the crucial time was chief of the research section (and as [...]

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Israel’s Slap Reagan in the Face

by Haitham Sabbah June 14, 2004

Top Israelis Boycott Reagan’s State Funeral By Wayne Madsen* Israel’s failure to send any important leaders to Reagan’s funeral was a diplomatic, political, and cultural slap in the face that should not go unnoticed in the Bush administration, the Republican and Democratic parties, the John Kerry campaign, and the American media. Israel was merely represented [...]

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He Wasn’t Elected…God Put Bush There

by Haitham Sabbah November 3, 2003

“Hatred stirreth up strife.” The Holy Bible, Proverbs They had a certain symmetry. Each preached hatred and neither was denounced as promptly as some might have thought appropriate. Mahathir Mohamad gave a speech to the Organization of the Islamic Conference on October 16 in which he made an astonishing declaration. He said, among other things, [...]

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Ministers of War

by William A. Cook October 28, 2003

Criminals of the Cloth By WILLIAM A. COOK Perhaps we have not paid enough attention to Exodus and have lost, therefore, the import of General “Jerry” Boykin’s words to the evangelical Christians as reported in the LA Times on the 16th, “We in the army of God, in the house of God, kingdom of God [...]

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