Beheaded and Beholden
Pete Seeger, "When will they ever learn" . The answer sadly seems to be never. I am anti-war, but not a pacifist and would have signed up to fight Hitler and his wickedness. Thiose students of history know that the Middle East has been a continuing cycle of an eye for an eye and the west blinkered s ...
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PALESTINE - GAZA LIBAN RÉSISTANCE DÉNONCE LES TENTATIVES DE L’OCCIDENT IMPÉRIALISTE CONSISTANT A IMPOSER UNE RÉSOLUTION COMPORTANT : 1- LA MISE EN PLACE D’UN NOUVEAU BLOCUS ASSURANT LA SÉCURITÉ DE L’ENTIT É SIONISTE AINSI QUE LA LIBERTÉ DE L’EXPLOITATION DU GAZ SOUS MER ; 2- LE DÉSARMEMENT DE LA RÉS ...
Obama’s lack of leadership training
For me the biggest reason I could not vote for Obama was because of his lack of leadership skills. I looked hard in an attempt to discover if he had any leadership skills or boot camp leadership skills. No evidence – Obama claimed his leadership skills were from his political campaign for the White ...
Así matan los drones de Estados Unidos en Iraq (+ Video)
http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Estas imágenes muestran ataques recientes de drones de Estados Unidos contra supuestos yihadistas en las operaciones contra el Estado Islámico en Iraq. “Con los drones, la guerra, la más terrible de las opciones políticas que un gobierno puede decidir, se convierte en algo trivi ...
Ejecución de Foley es una declaración de guerra contra EEUU, afirma congresista
http://ift.tt/eA8V8J La ejecución del periodista estadunidense, James Foley, a manos de los extremistas del grupo Estado Islámico de Iraq y del Levante (EIIL o Daesh, en árabe) es “una declaración de guerra” a los Estados Unidos, subrayó el congresista estadounidense, Peter King. El legislador, quie ...
A favorite routine
In middle school, I set my alarm clock to the "radio" setting and woke up each day at 7:00 AM exactly to the sounds of "Morning Edition" on NPR and Bob Edwards's trip through the minute long sound clips. The hosts after him never got it quite right, and that voice took me through the start of the Ir ...
Anak Sebagai Nikmat
Ada cerita nyata mengenai hal ini. Penulis mempunyai teman guru. Suatu saat ketika bertemu tanpa sengaja menanyakan kabar anaknya. Dia bercerita bahwa anaknya baru saja lahir. Sudah berumah tangga selama 12 tahun namun belum dikaruniai keturunan. Rumah yang ditempati terasa hambar tanpa tangisan dan ...
An AUMF for ISIL at last? Questions raised by the Post’s account of the White House debate
The Washington Post reports tonight that the White House is actively considering whether to go to Congress to seek an explicit authorization to use force against ISIL. [UPDATE: see also the corresponding NY Times story, which focuses on the underlying policy debate rather than the law; it helps make ...
Is it justified to kill those who commit evil acts? A discussion on determinism, evil, and the Islamic State.
I consider myself a determinist. This means that I don't believe people have free will, but instead everything one thinks and does is determined by everything which preceded it, stretching all the way back to the beginning of time, whatever and whenever that was. To give an example, imagine you are ...
Morocco says it has arrested two IS jihadists - Yahoo News
> Yahoo News > < font> Morocco says it has arrested two IS jihadists > Yahoo News > Rabat (AFP) - Morocco said on Friday it had arrested two Islamic State jihadists who had been planning to leave for IS training camps in Syria and Iraq to prepare attacks at home. The two, whose identi ...
Bombers kills 68 in Iraq, UNHCR aid convoy gets underway
An attack by suspected Shia militiamen on a Sunni mosque in Iraq's Diyala province has killed at least 68 people. Officials say a bomber blew himself up in the mosque during Friday prayers and gunmen fired on fleeing worshippers. Diyala province has seen ...
US backs federal system in Iraq: Biden
Washington (AFP) - Vice President Joe Biden said the United States would back a federal system in Iraq, as he pressed for unity in the sharply divided country amid a growing terror threat. Writing in a Washington Post opinion piece, publised Friday ...