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Friday, October 30, 2015Anti-Israel Activism Criminalized in the Land of Charlie Hebdo and "Free Speech" As more and more people around the world recognize the criminal and brutal nature of the Israeli government, its loyalists have been increasingly trying literally to criminalize activism against the Israeli occupation. For that reason, "pro-Israel" activists this week celebrated this French assault on basic free speech rights.
Monday, October 26, 2015BBC Protects U.K.'s Close Ally Saudi Arabia With Incredibly Dishonest and Biased Editing the Saudis, says the anonymous official, are only arming groups such as the "Army of Conquest," but not the al Qaeda affiliate the Nusra Front. What's the problem with this claim? It's obvious, though the BBC would not be so impolite as to point it out: The Army of Conquest includes the Nusra Front as one of its most potent components. This is not even in remote dispute.
Thursday, October 22, 2015Israel Calls a Man Its Soldiers Killed a "Terrorist": Until They Realized He Was an Israeli Jew Killing a man by two IDF soldiers was a mistake. The soldiers claim, he was acting erratically and tried to grab one of their guns. When he was fatally shot by the IDF, says the paper, he was "believed to be an Arab terrorist." As it turns out, he was not an Arab Palestinian but rather an Israeli Jew. Upon learning this, the "terrorist" designation was officially and "immediately" rescinded.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015Why Is the U.S. Refusing An Independent Investigation If Its Hospital Airstrike Was An "Accident"? The U.S. State Department, through its spokesman Mark Toner, insisted that no independent investigation of the hospital bombing was needed on the ground; that the U.S. Government is already investigating itself and everyone knows how trustworthy and reliable this process is.
Monday, October 5, 2015The Radically Changing Story of the U.S. Airstrike on Afghan Hospital: From Mistake to Justification Doctors Without Borders are clearly infuriated at the attack on their hospital and the deaths of their colleagues and patients. From the start, they have signaled an unwillingness to be shunted away with the usual "collateral damage" banalities and, more important, have refused to let the U.S. military and its allies get away with spouting obvious falsehoods.
Saturday, October 3, 2015One Day After Warning Russia of Civilian Casualties, the U.S. Bombs a Hospital in Afghanistan This last week has been a particularly gruesome illustration of continuous U.S. conduct under the War on Terror banner. The formula by now is clear: bombing whatever countries it wants, justifying it all by reflexively labeling their targets as "terrorists," and then dishonestly denying or casually dismissing the civilians they slaughter as "collateral damage."
Thursday, October 1, 2015U.S. Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama "Ended Two Wars" How do you know when you're an out-of-control empire? When you keep bombing and deploying soldiers in places where you boast that you've ended wars. How do you know you have a hackish propagandist for a president? When you celebrate him for "ending two wars" in the very same places that he keeps bombing.
Saturday, September 26, 2015The Greatest Threat to Campus Free Speech is Coming From Dianne Feinstein and her Military-Contractor Husband Adoption of this "anti-Semitism" definition clearly would function to prohibit the advocacy of, say, a one-state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict, or even the questioning of a state's right to exist as a non-secular entity. How can anyone think it's appropriate to declare such ideas off limits in academic classrooms or outlaw them as part of campus activism?
Wednesday, September 23, 2015U.S. State Department "Welcomes" News That Saudi Arabia Will Head U.N. Human Rights Panel Saudi Arabia--easily one of the world's most brutally repressive regimes--was chosen to head a UN Human Rights Council panel provoked indignation around the world. Most of the world may be horrified at the selection of Saudi Arabia to head a key U.N. human rights panel, but the U.S. State Department most certainly is not. Quite the contrary: they seem quite pleased about the news.
Thursday, September 17, 2015Arrest of 14-Year-Old Student for Making a Clock: the Fruits of Sustained Fearmongering and Anti-Muslim Animus The Dallas Morning News reports that "Ahmed Mohamed -- who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart -- hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High," but "instead, the school phoned police."
Tuesday, September 15, 2015Hostile BBC Interview of a Saudi Loyalist Shows Prime Journalistic Duty: Scrutiny of One's Own Side The primary role of journalists is to expose and thus check abuses committed by their own nation and its allies. "The public interest" is served far more by focusing on the bad acts of one's own government than on the acts of foreign governments for which one is not responsible and over which one has little or no control.
Sunday, September 13, 2015Two Short Paragraphs that Summarize the US Approach to Human Rights Advocacy What baffles me most about U.S. political discourse: how -- whenever it's time to introduce the next "humanitarian war" or other forms of attack against the latest Evil Dictator or Terrorist Group of the Moment -- so many otherwise intelligent and well-reasoning people are willing to believe that the U.S. Government is motivated by opposition to human rights abuses and oppression.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015Hillary Clinton Goes To Militaristic, Hawkish Think Tank, Gives Militaristic, Hawkish Speech The core purpose of Clinton's speech was to assure those nervous precincts that, despite the Iran Deal support, she's still the same aggressive, war-threatening, obsessively Israel-devoted, bellicose hawk they've grown to know and love. To achieve that, Clinton repeatedly invoked the Netanyahu-cartoon image of Iran as a Grave and Evil Terrorist Menace.
Friday, September 4, 2015NYT Claims U.S. Abides by Cluster Bomb Treaty: The Exact Opposite of Reality As Americans, we should feel proud that our government, though refusing to sign the cluster ban treaty, has nonetheless "abided by its provisions" -- if not for the fact that this claim is totally false. The U.S. has long been and remains one of the world's most aggressive suppliers of cluster munitions, and has used those banned weapons itself in devastating ways.
Thursday, August 27, 2015Jorge Ramos Commits Journalism, Gets Immediately Attacked by Journalists What is more noble for a journalist to do: confront a dangerous, powerful billionaire-demagogue spouting hatemongering nonsense about mass deportation, or sit by quietly and pretend to have no opinions on any of it and that "both sides" are equally deserving of respect and have equal claims to validity?
Tuesday, August 25, 2015Email from a Married, Female Ashley Madison User The private lives and sexual choices of fully formed adults are usually very complicated and thus impossible to understand -- and certainly impossible to judge -- without wallowing around in the most intimate details, none of which are any of your business. That's a very good reason not to try to sit in judgment and condemn from afar.
Friday, August 21, 2015The Puritanical Glee Over the Ashley Madison Hack That the cheating scoundrels of Ashley Madison got what they deserved was a widespread sentiment yesterday. Despite how common both infidelity and online pornography are, tweets expressing moralistic glee were legion. Websites were created to enable easy searches of the hacked data by email address.
Saturday, August 15, 2015Hillary Clinton on the Sanctity of Protecting Classified Information When it comes to low-level government employees with no power, the Obama administration has purposely prosecuted them as harshly as possible to the point of vindictiveness: It has notoriously prosecuted more individuals under the Espionage Act of 1917 for improperly handling classified information than all previous administrations combined.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015Democrats Continue to Delude Themselves About Obama's Failed Guantanamo Vow Obama's current Guantanamo plan -- like all his previous ones -- does not seek to end indefinite detention. It does the opposite: It insists on the right to continue to indefinitely imprison detainees, most of whom have already been kept in a cage for more than a decade with no charges or trial.
Friday, August 7, 2015To Defend Iran Deal, Obama Boasts That He's Bombed Seven Countries Our nation's Churchillian warriors are such sensitive souls: sociopathically indifferent to the lives they continually extinguish around the world (provided it all takes place far away from their comfort and safety), but deeply, deeply hurt -- "especially insulted" -- by mean words directed at them and their motives.
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