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At a time of unprecedented ubiquity of the media, the Iraq war long ago became a private war. What we hear about it is filtered and controlled by the Pentagon and the Iraq "government" who control all the news. This is because it is still hard for journalists, 138 of whom have been killed on …
The sub-prime mortgage crisis will impact African-Americans and other people of color more than anyone else. Homeownership is at the foundation of the American dream, and this foundation has crumbled under the crash of the sub-prime mortgage market. Two million additional homes are expected to go into foreclosure in 2008. Given that Blacks and Latinos …
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So suddenly, there is no war in Iraq and the whole thing is settled! What a huge success! What brilliance . This is what the politicians have been working for for 4 years at the cost of thousands of lives. No wonder the baby-munchers are so delighted. In order to give the illusion of peace, we …
I have just returned from a visit to Syria, about which more later. One of the images I am returning with is an incident in the Sayedah Zeinab Mosque, the shrine of Mohammed’s sister and one of the main pilgrimage sites for Shia pilgrims, an astonishing place of gold and mirror glass and simply hordes …
 The public don’t know this: since 2003 Iraq has set a world record in suicide bombings. The 1000 suicide attacks are more than double the number of similar attacks carried out by members of Hamas in Israel, Hizbollah in Lebanon and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka put together.   There were no known suicide attacks …
