Posts Tagged ‘ Iraq ’

Listening to House Arabs is bad for career

May 17, 2011

From rabble.ca: On the day the U.S. invasion of Iraq started in March 2003, Michael Ignatieff was having drinks with Kanan Makiya, a fellow academic at Harvard, at Casablanca restaurant in Cambridge, Mass. Makiya was the Iraqi exile who reportedly told the Bush administration that the U.S. would be greeted in Iraq with “sweets...
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An Open Letter To All Arabs And Muslims In The U.S. That Supported The War On Iraq

April 12, 2011
An Open Letter To All Arabs And Muslims In The U.S. That Supported The War On Iraq

To those who supported the war on Iraq, To those who opposed it because it was merely “bad policy” or a “mistake”, To those who opposed invading the heart of the Arab world because it was not in the “American national interest” to do so, but not because it was an unprovoked, illegal, and...
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Secular and Religious Pro-War Housies

April 8, 2011
Secular and Religious Pro-War Housies

Instead of disappearing from the public eye and hoping his collaboration with Iraq’s invaders would be forgotten, Brandeis University professor Kanan Makiya still has the audacity to run his mouth on Arab affairs. He recently spoke at Missouri State University about the ongoing Arab revolts, dictatorship and autonomy. Makiya’s speech, titled “The Fall of the Dictators:...
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Iraqi Lemons

March 9, 2011
Iraqi Lemons

The arrogant, racist words of a former Shin Bet agent (and aren’t all Zionists arrogant and racist?) on collaborators once again describe to the dispensable nature of collaborators’ services: You squeeze the lemon and it’s got no juice left, you throw it away. One Iraqi collaborator with the US occupation of his home country...
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Informed Imperialism is still Imperialism

March 8, 2011
Informed Imperialism is still Imperialism

Slate’s Anne Applebaum tries to present more thoughtful analysis than that of Charles Krauthammer on intervention in Libya. Applebaum attempts to represent the so-called peaceful alternative to the more hawkish Krauthammer. Her reasoning on why Arabs aren’t welcoming US intervention in Libya: Why the Arab anxiety about American and Western help? Why the reluctance among our allies?...
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My Name Is Not “Eye-Rak”

February 14, 2011


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Rendition For Mubarak: Hand Him Over To The Iraqi Resistance

February 13, 2011
Rendition For Mubarak: Hand Him Over To The Iraqi Resistance

Now that Hosni Mubarak has been ousted by the Egyptians what should happen to the former dictator?  His three decades of corruption, brutality, and repression are well known, but it doesn’t appear he is likely to stand trial for his crimes against the Egyptian people.  The Egyptian revolutionaries were merciful towards their former tyrant,...
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Eboo Patel, get over Mayor Bloomberg already

January 3, 2011
Eboo Patel, get over Mayor Bloomberg already

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has: Supported Israel’s war on Gaza; Demanded the resignation, which resulted in the firing, of Debbie Almontaser from leadership of the Khalil Gibran International Academy. The EEOC found that the New York Board of Education violated her civil rights and owed her $300,000 in damages; Defended Terry Jones‘ planned...
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The Press Release ADC Never Issued About The Wikileaks Document Dump

October 25, 2010
The Press Release ADC Never Issued About The Wikileaks Document Dump

ADC denounces the US government’s cover up of torture, rape and murder by Iraqi authorities, as whistleblower site Wikileaks recently indicated. ADC is horrified, though not surprised, at the revelation about the murder of civilians at US military checkpoints during the occupation. ADC condemns in the strongest possible terms the US government’s denial of...
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