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Sunday, Jul 6th 2008


Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category

News in the Echo Chamber: Comparing Israeli and Iranian Cinema

The Israel-Iran phoney war took a dramatic turn last week when Transport minister Shaul Mofaz said that if Iran’s nuclear weapons programme continues, Israel will attack. Mofaz is one of three deputy Prime Ministers with pretensions to the current incumbent Ehud Olmert’s position. Though Israel attacked Saddam’s Iraq in 1981 in similar circumstances, the […]

Commiserations!!

“Power . . . to All Our Friends!!!”
I see that much of the biased liberal-communist mainstream English-language media have been running the ridiculous story about how British singer Cliff Richards (seen above) was robbed of the Eurovision Song Contest title by underhand scheming on the part of El Generalísimo Francisco Franco, who was supposedly running […]

Gilbert Achcar on the Middle East

The first decade of the millennium has seen an intense focus on the politics of the Middle East. Not that the region was considered insignificant at any time since the Second World War. But a series of events that include the 9/11 attacks, the second intifada, America’s war in Iraq and the bloody confrontation between […]

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Reclaiming Citizenship

 
Bertie Ahern’s socialist conversion occurred around the same time he took up reading Robert Putnam.[1] Putnam was famous for... More »

The Left and Climate Change ­- why green goes better with red

The convenient green honeymoon.
With everyone from David Cameron to Enda Kenny wearing their green hearts on their sleeves... More »

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Laptops of Mass Destruction

Jeremy Paxman once explained the secret of his interviewing technique - before speaking to a politician, he simply asks... More »

Get Down on Your Knees and Rejoice!!

Si, is the former Atlético Madrid moron and now Scouse bastard Fernando Torres, who score the winning goal for... More »