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Bill Fletcher, Jr: Spinning Victory in Iraq
President Obama might have declared the combat mission over in Iraq this week, but thousands of troops and contractors remain behind in that country and troops are still moving into Afghanistan. In his speech, Obama struck a note of conciliation with President Bush, and echoed a refrain that's grown familiar now: move forward, don't look back. But Bill Fletcher, Jr. notes that Iraq wasn't a case of a war gone bad with good intentions--it was begun illegally, and continued over protest.
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Freeman: Obama has failed in Middle East due to ‘pathologies’ of US political life
Whatever his talents as a diplomat and reader of confidential cables, Chas Freeman is a fabulous writer. Here, at Helena Cobban's blog, is his speech to the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday on America's inability to make peace in Israel and Palestine. Scathing description of the peace process and of the lobby's generosity [...]
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Bill Fletcher, Jr., Attack on Ahmed Sharif, and New Voters
President Obama might have declared the combat mission over in Iraq this week, but thousands of troops and contractors remain behind in that country and troops are still moving into Afghanistan. In his speech, Obama struck a note of conciliation with President Bush, and echoed a refrain that's grown familiar now: move forward, don't look back. But Bill Fletcher, Jr. notes that Iraq wasn't a case of a war gone bad with good intentions--it was begun illegally, and handled wrong from the start.
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The F Word: Fight Tea Party Voters With Fresh Voters
Candidates have been in their districts, making nice to likely mid-term voters. They're more scarce than general election voters, and typically a more polarized bunch. What if there were more of them and more low-income people, particularly women, were in the mix?
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there is no peace process
It's useful to remember from time-to-time that the peace process is a joke, whose only aim is to continue. No one who participates in it cares much about a just final settlement. They care about keeping the appearance of caring about a just final settlement visible, while legitimizing ongoing occupation and settlement.
Here is the PA [...] Related posts:
- J Street on “peace” Has J Street’s ridiculous reaction to the armed take-over of...
- very bad Hamas Amira Hass reports—kind of—from Gaza, that the Hamas government broke...
- free the prisoners! let Gazan students go to the peace conference Attention converges on Gaza during flash-points: massacres, incursions, flotillas, convoys....
Posted in News Feeds, Uncategorized Also tagged Abbas, direct talks, Fatah, Hamas, national unity, PA, peace process, PFLP, PLO Leave a comment
there is no peace process
It's useful to remember from time-to-time that the peace process is a joke, whose only aim is to continue. No one who participates in it cares much about a just final settlement. They care about keeping the appearance of caring about a just final settlement visible, while legitimizing ongoing occupation and settlement.
Here is the PA violently [...] Related posts:
- J Street on “peace” Has J Street’s ridiculous reaction to the armed take-over of...
- Biden and Obama’s Israeli Death Dance Joe Biden visits Israel. Israel announces new settlement construction in...
- free the prisoners! let Gazan students go to the peace conference Attention converges on Gaza during flash-points: massacres, incursions, flotillas, convoys....
Posted in News Feeds, Uncategorized Also tagged Abbas, direct talks, Fatah, Hamas, national unity, PA, peace process, PFLP, PLO Leave a comment
Top ten reasons for skepticism on Israeli-Palestinian talks
On August 20, the Obama Administration announced that it will reconvene under its auspices direct Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations beginning on September 2.
While a just and lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace is in everyone's interest, there are profound reasons to be skeptical about the likelihood of success for the following reasons (not necessarily listed in order of importance):
1. [...]
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New York Times vs. direct negotiations
The New York Times published two articles yesterday about the resumption of direct talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel. Both address a reader who already knows what happened, yet neither opens with a sentence carrying the basic information: “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday announced that direct negotiations would resume,” and so on. [...]
Sonali Kolhatkar: Missing Media on Afghanistan
The media face of the war in Afghanistan is a woman's face--one particular mutilated woman, in the case of Time. Sonali Kolhatkar of the Afghan Women's Mission notes, though, that this is a clear strategy from those who benefit from the war to win over European and American audiences. Meanwhile, Afghan women who oppose occupation, like former GRITtv guest Malalai Joya, are silenced in the media just as they are silenced in Afghan politics.
Posted in News Feeds Also tagged afghan women, Afghan Women's Mission, Afghanistan, aisha, Bush, drone, Esther Armah, flood, interview, jirga, malalai joya, media, Pakistan, Sonali Kolhatkar, Time, Video, war, women Leave a comment
The F Word: Accepting Defeat in Iraq