There seems to be a constant perp walk of Israeli soldiers since its war in Gaza two years ago. This week the hand of justice has turned to investigate several senior Israeli officers who allegedly authorized an air strike that killed at least 21 Palestinians in Gaza in 2009. The Israeli army is being criticized for demolishing a family’s three-story property in order to take over the abode as a military position. This follows of course several other accounts of Israeli soldiers and officers acting inappropriately, such as the case of two soldiers who used a Palestinian boy to test out booby-traps. —JCL The Guardian: Senior Israeli army officers are under investigation by military police over the authorisation of an air strike that killed at least 21 members of one family during the three-week Gaza war in 2008-9. The officers are reported to include the commander of the Givati Brigade, Colonel Ilan Malka. No decision has been made on whether they will be charged. The air strike took place on 5 January 2009, nine days after the war began. The extended Samouni family were ordered to gather in one house after a three-storey property belonging to them was taken over as a military position. Read more Related Entries October 14, 2010 Ahmadinejad Holds Rally at Lebanon-Israel Border October 13, 2010 Computer Nerd Barbie
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In quite unsurprising “news”, the Pentagon has once again articulated their oft-cited trope that “the release of classified documents on the Wikileaks website could endanger U.S. and allied troops and Iraqi civilians” as the whistle-blower site prepares to publish even more classified files on the Iraq war. Interestingly enough, the U.S. Department of Defense is very concerned with the safety of its troops despite the fact that the U.S. officially ended combat operations there months ago. —JCL The BBC: The US military says the expected release of classified documents on the Wikileaks website could endanger US and allied troops and Iraqi civilians. The whistleblower website is thought to be about to post hundreds of thousands of US military files on the Iraq war. Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the leak could have “very negative security implications”. Read more Read more Related Entries October 20, 2010 Government Moves to Block ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Injunction October 19, 2010 Pentagon Approves Openly Gay Recruits
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“The Adderall Diaries” author isn’t one to hold back, as readers of his memoir—not to mention his tweets, blogs, “Overly Personal Emails,” essays and online magazine, The Rumpus—know well. Here, he opens up about his literary projects, his hyperlocal politics and the role of narcissism in his work. Related Entries October 14, 2010 Bob Woodward on ‘Obama’s Wars’ October 14, 2010 Bob Woodward on ‘Obama’s Wars’
Continue reading …MRC’s Bozell on ‘Fox & Friends’ Discusses NPR’s Double Standard on Controversial Statements
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Juan Williams's firing from National Public Radio (NPR) earlier this week was not only animated in part by the liberal George Soros-backed
Continue reading …By Eugene Robinson The crisis over faulty or fraudulent paperwork in mortgage foreclosures—which is either a big deal or a humongous deal, depending on which experts you believe—is the fault of arrogant, greedy lenders who played fast and loose with the basic property rights of homeowners. Related Entries October 21, 2010 A National Election, Like It or Not October 21, 2010 Stevens v. Scalia
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Continue reading …NBC Advances Democratic Agenda on ‘Secret Money’ from Rove’s ‘Network’ that Means Return to ‘Watergate, Wild West Days’
October 22, 2010 No Comment
Thursday's NBC Nightly News led, yes led, with a lame attempt to advance the desperate Democratic spin about the “secret fortune” going into campaign ads leading to “a return to the days before Watergate, Wild West days,” a story anchor Brian Williams touted as containing “exclusive new information,” but which merely passed along stale and vague generalities suggesting some sort of vast right-wing conspiracy in efforts to dare exercise the same unfettered free speech rights practiced by NBC News.
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By The Rev. Madison Shockley Juan Williams is living evidence that watching too much Fox News will rot your brain. Related Entries October 21, 2010 Thugs on the Right October 20, 2010 Wars Will Cease When We Refuse to Fight
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his camp are trying to keep their cool and push on with a vote on pension reform that would change France’s official retirement age, but the opposition isn’t backing down. In fact, labor unions have set aside two more days to strike—Oct. 28 and Nov. 6—and in the meantime, everyone from school kids to transportation workers is doing his or her part to make things difficult for the government.
Continue reading …By Joe Conason Sometimes tea party ideologues are described as libertarians, but the behavior of their leading candidates betrays an authoritarian streak just beneath all the sonorous rhetoric. Related Entries October 21, 2010 Thugs on the Right October 20, 2010 Wars Will Cease When We Refuse to Fight
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