Author Archives: Sabina Becker

Quotable: Robert Scheer on Israeli double standards and media complicity

“The basic argument is that Palestinian terrorists represented by Hamas are given to an irrational hatred of Jews so profound that it invalidates their movement, even when they win elections. That was not the view of the Israeli security service … Continue reading

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Horseapples

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A dirty old bastard finally goes to meet his lord

And no, it ain’t Jesus for this racist SOB: William Devereux Zantzinger, the Southern Maryland tobacco farmer convicted of manslaughter in the death of barmaid Hattie Carroll in a celebrated 1963 case, died Jan. 3, according to the Brinsfield-Echols Funeral … Continue reading

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Quotable: Greg Palast on the sub-prime mortgage fiasco

Money quote: “There is no reason for sub-prime mortgages in America.”

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Dept. of Unintended Results, Israel, Inc.

Found at the Scarlet Pimpernel:No doubt the Israeli hacker who used this ‘toon to deface the Palestine Chronicle website (which is now, happily, restored) thought he was being clever by slamming Hamas (baselessly) as a bunch of cowards using children … Continue reading

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Fatty, fatty, two by four…

…I wanna be a media whore!Why is it that whenever a small-timer in the US desperately needs something to attract attention, he has to resort to cheap-shot shit like this? Flipping through my WSJ this morning, as usual I was … Continue reading

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Various things the Israeli authorities don’t want you to see

Thanks to commenter Utpal for alerting me to this one:A CBC report with Neil Macdonald, showing the ethnic-cleansing angle on the murder of a Palestinian mother. The soldiers the Israeli news crew interviewed are most explicit on the point–one of … Continue reading

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Quotable: Justin Podur on crapaganda in the Canadian media

“Modern Western armies, like those of Israel, the US, and Canada, think of information as part of warfare. They expend tremendous time and resources mobilizing support for their violence. They do this by controlling information, disallowing independent journalists (as Israel … Continue reading

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West Bank Palestinians praise Hugo Chávez at rally

Demonstrators in Ramallah fly the Venezuelan flag and carry Chavecito’s official portrait during an anti-war demonstration. They are thanking him not only for having the cojones to kick the Israeli ambassador out of Venezuela on principle, but also for the … Continue reading

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Simon Wiesenthal Centre jumps the shark

Oh, the poor Wiesenthalers, how they’ve come down in the world. They’ve gone from hunting Nazis…to inventing them where none exist. How pathetic is this? It appears that Mr. Chavez did not wait very long to do an about face. … Continue reading

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