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Muslim mayor invites pride parade to Dutch suburb
SLOTERVAART, Netherlands (AFP) — A harassed gay minority in a conservative suburb in otherwise tolerant Amsterdam has found a guardian angel in the local Muslim mayor.
DeMint Supports Honduras Military Coup
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has come out in support of the military coup in Honduras, chastising President Obama in a statement for what he calls “a slap in the face to the people” of that country.
Democratically elected presidents that the American foreign policy establishment doesn’t like are transformed into dictators. Same in South America, same in the Middle East, same wherever the people are brown, black, or yellow.
Israeli Housing Minister: Spread of Arab population must be stopped
Housing Minister Ariel Atias on Thursday warned against the spread of Arab population into various parts of Israel, saying that preventing this phenomenon was no less than a national responsibility.
The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone
Any attempt to construct a narrative around all the former Goldmanites in influential positions quickly becomes an absurd and pointless exercise, like trying to make a list of everything. What you need to know is the big picture: If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be …
The “Perfect Idiot’s” Guide to Coups and Democracy (BoRev.Net)
Yes, darn those “elected leaders” and their “whims”. Fortunately Honduras has finally imposed the fuck out of democracy on its people, military style! In the capital, civil liberties have been officially suspended, reporters have been detained and beaten, news outlets shut down, and at least one Cat…
Great Moments in Coup Reporting (BoRev.Net)
Carnival: Coup in Honduras won’t affect cruise ship calls in Roatan
Since everybody was waiting to know, the coup in Honduras will not disrupt your summer cruise plans.
Protestors We Don’t Tweet About
In Honduras, first you take a photo like this……..then you catch them doing this……..and then suddenly you’re the target.
Zizek on Iran: Will the cat above the precipice fall down?
When an authoritarian regime approaches its final crisis, its dissolution as a rule follows two steps. Before its actual collapse, a mysterious rupture takes place: all of a sudden people know that the game is over, they are simply no longer afraid. It is not only that the regime loses its legitimac…
Loyalty to Racism – Azmi Bishara
Rejecting such condescension, the new type of Palestinian says, “My Palestinianness existed before your state was created on top of the ruins of my people. Citizenship is a compromise I have accepted in order to be able to go on living here in my land. It is not a favour that you bestow on me with s…
Fictions on the Ground – NYTimes.com
Despite all the diplomatic talk of disbanding the settlements as a condition for peace, no one seriously believes that these communities — with their half a million residents, their urban installations, their privileged access to fertile land and water — will ever be removed. The Israeli authorities…
Commentary: Iran conflict isn’t class warfare – CNN.com
In a short essay that Abbas Amanat, a scholar of 19th-century Iran at Yale University, was asked to write for The New York Times on the current crisis in Iran, he asserted that what we are witnessing is …
The Traveller Within: To You, the new Iran ‘expert’
Who, until this morning, thought that ‘Shiraz’ was just the name of a wineWho’s beaming with pride you can now write ‘Ahmadinejad’ without copy-and-pasting it from a news websiteWho only heard of Evin …
Vigil planned for Arab-American tourist shot by Miami Beach police – MiamiHerald.com
Last weekend’s shooting death of a tourist visiting Miami Beach has drawn national attention from Arab-American groups and others who are planning a vigil Friday night in front of the Miami Beach police headquarters.
The language that absolves Israel – Los Angeles Times
On Sunday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech that — by categorically ruling out the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state — ought to have been seen as a mortal blow …
Protesting racism at Berkeley High | SocialistWorker.org
Racist images posted on Facebook sparked a march of 300 African American students in Berkeley, Calif.
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