Posts Tagged ‘Extremism’
Chomsky on The Torture Memos
Torture has been routine practice from the early days of the Republic By Noam Chomsky, June 2009 The torture memos released by the White House in April elicited shock, indignation, and surprise. The shock and indignation are understandable—particularly the testimony in the Senate Armed Services Committee report on the Cheney-Rumsfeld [...]
Uri Avenery on Israeli Racism
Uri Avenery writes of the present coalition government of Israel: At its center is the Likud Party, a good part of which is pure racist (sorry for the oxymoron). To its right there is the ultra-racist Shas Party, to the right of which is Lieberman’s ultra-ultra racist "Israel Is Our Home" Party, the ultra-ultra-ultra racist "Jewish Home" [...]
America to Support Zionist Extremism
Fearing a backlash from the US Congress, Barack Obama has already called Netanyahu, and has sent his special envoy, George Mitchell, to Jerusalem to appease Likud's Zionist extremism. Jeffrey Heller reports for Reuters that: "Mitchell told President Shimon Peres his goal was to create conditions for 'prompt resumption and early conclusion' of [...]
Anti-Muslim Racist-Nationalist Parties Gain in Europe
Anti-Muslim Racist-Nationalist (euphemistically called "right-wing," "right-leaning," or "neo-conservative") parties have made spectacular gains in most European countries, at the expense of socialist and other "left wing" parties, in one of the lowest turnout at the polls. As Belgian News reported: "Families who have lost jobs and homes became [...]
Critical Notes on Obama’s Cairo Speech: Imperialism with a Human Face
In pleasant contrast to his predecessor, Barack Obama is a cultured, sensitive, educated, well-mannered man and these personal qualities were on ample display and much appreciated in Cairo on Thursday. But the Muslim world on whom the government of the United States has declared a unilateral, indiscriminate, unconventional war of collective [...]
Dutch Racist-Nationalist Party “Gains” in EU Polls
According to BBC, infamous Islamophobe, Geert Wilders' Freedom party will win four of the 25 Dutch seats in the parliament, just one behind the country's Christian Democrats. "We dare to talk about sensitive subjects like Islamisation and we use plain and simple words that the voter can understand," Mr Wilders has said. Mr Wilders was refused [...]
The Roots of Home-Grown Terrorism
An article in VOA News of 2 June 2009, Arab, Muslim Americans Have High Hopes for Obama's Cairo Speech, by Kane Farabaugh, filed from Dearborn, Michigan, reports that: "2006 was a tough year for Fay Saad of the Arab American National Museum: 'An Israeli bomb destroyed a family home in Beirut, killing her grandmother and aunt...' " (more...)
Ghassan Kanafani’s Letter from Gaza
Dear Mustafa, I have now received your letter, in which you tell me that you've done everything necessary to enable me to stay with you in Sacramento. I've also received news that I have been accepted in the department of Civil Engineering in the University of California. I must thank you for everything, my friend. But it'll strike you as [...]
Women Only Rock Concert for Orthodox Jews in Israel
Without any hysterical cries of Israel being Talibanised, an Orthodox Jewish women's rock band performed before a women only audience, in deference to "a rabbinical injunction that says it is immodest for a man to listen to a woman's voice in song, they perform only before other women... Their forthcoming album will include a warning label [...]
Outlook for Violent Rightwing Extremism in the United States
The Office of Intelligence Analysis, US Department of Homeland Security has expressed concern at the resurgence of violent rightwing extremism in the United States. Reproduced below is the final, Outlook, section of the Report (emphasis added). Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization [...]
