Bill O’Reilly is clearly very sad about this fact on Fox News:
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Making money from natural disasters
Naomi Klein writes in The Nation about disaster capitalists salivating over Hurricane Sandy: Less than three days after Sandy made landfall on the East Coast of the United States, Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute blamed New Yorkers’ resistance to big-box stores for the misery they were about to endure.… Writing on Forbes.com… [1]… he explained that…
God loves Romney and I’m praying for them both
A lot of white people certainly don’t like Barack Obama. Why? Well, hard to know really but it’s something to do with “freedom”:
The Islamist revolution is here; are we ready and even willing?
The grand sweep of history after the Arab Spring is yet to be written; it remains a work in progress. But this piece, by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley in the New York Review of Books, is a stunner, riffing on the prospects of an Islamist phase, what this means for democracy, Arabs in general…
Al Jazeera’s Listening Post on dangers of journalistic embedding with military
Reporters have been embedding with the US military (and other armies) for years, especially since 9/11. The results are usually pretty dismal, politically tone-deaf, pro-government and lacking criticism. Which is exactly how the military wants it. Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post asked me to comment on this tradition (I appear around 22:34) and my previous…
Does the European Left ignore Islamist violence in a mutual hatred of Israel?
It’s an interesting and long argued detail, here by Colin Shindler in the New York Times. He makes some disturbing points but ignores the elephant in the room, the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and how that affects global attitudes towards Israel, Jews and Zionists: Last week, Twitter… shut down… a popular account for posting anti-Semitic messages in…