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Darlene Mariani
What books have you checked out lately? What websites have you visited? What have you ordered online? Who have you spoken to on the phone? Do you think this doesn’t matter to anyone? It matters to John Ashcroft.
Robert Fisk
You can kick a scholar when he’s dead if he’s a Palestinian, and kick a journalist when he’s dead if you want to claim he was murdered by Palestinians. But now the same sick fantasies are taking hold in Australia, where a determined effort is being made by Israel’s supposed friends there to prevent the Palestinian scholar Hanan Ashrawi - of all people - from receiving the 2003 Sydney Peace Prize this week.
Meil Mackay
The World Crisis Web has steered clear of conspiracy theories surrounding the WTC and Pentagon attacks of September 11th 2001, believing that many of the wild and unsubstantiated claims about Zionist links to the attack serve both anti-semitics and the Israeli right-wing more than they do truth. However, one theory has become so strong that even British broadsheet newspapers can no longer ignore it…
Marc Perelman
Despite mounting criticism of the administration’s Iraq policy, Vice President Dick Cheney appears to be ratcheting up his commitment to the circle of neoconservative intellectuals who helped spearhead President Bush’s war policy, adding one of its most controversial proponents to his national security staff in a little-noticed move last month.
Jim Lobe
The image was not an edifying one: the president of the United States a horse, his vice president, the rider. But that is the image that Senator Joseph Biden, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, used to describe the power relationship between USA President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in a recent interview with the National Journal.
Neil Clark
Critical to the neo-con plan to obtain control of the resources of the Middle East is a need to portray Arabs not just as mendacious, but also as “barely capable” of running their own countries without benign outside interference. The neo-con notion that Arabs need “civilising” and “assistance” in shaping their future differs very little from the attitudes of the first British imperialists in Africa more than a century ago.
James P. Pinkerton
There’s nothing like a war to bring out the inner George Orwell in a government. In ways little and small, Uncle Sam has been morphing into Big Brother - spinning the news, even, apparently, manufacturing news.
Ahdaf Soueif
Once again it’s funny mirrors time. The world watches the events taking place in Palestine, and Western media see one process taking place while the Arabs generally see another. Interpreting these events is largely a matter of how you view the relationship between the USA and Israel. A few weeks ago I heard a well-known British columnist say he was sick of being told that the Palestinian/Israeli conflict was the ‘litmus test’ for how people can expect the American Imperium to influence the world. Yet “Freedom for Palestine” was the demand on millions of the banners in the anti-war demonstrations that swept the world last February.
George Paine
The original USA Patriot Act allowed the government to do many bad things. It resulted in the government having the power to spy on Americans without so much as probable cause or a search warrant. It led a court - a secret court that issues rulings that cannot be appealed by anyone except the government - to rule that the Fourth Amendment isn?t really all that important after all. John Ashcroft wasn?t done. He was just getting warmed up.
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