August, 2009

• 27 August

  Al-Megrahi: Whatever Works, By Gwynne Dyer

  Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was an intelligence agent. Since he worked for the Libyan government, he probably did some bad things. But he probably did not do the specific bad thing for which he was sentenced to 27 years in prison in Scotland. He only served eight years. He was released on compassionate grounds last Thursday by the Scottish Justice Secretary, …

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• 26 August

  Our Suicide Bombers, By John Feffer

  The actor Will Smith is no one’s image of a suicide bomber. With his boyish face, he has often played comic roles. Even as the last man on earth in I Am Legend, he retains a wise-cracking, ironic demeanor. And yet, surrounded by a horde of hyperactive vampires at the end of that film, Smith clasps a live grenade to …

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• 25 August

  Racism And Corruption In Pro-Coal, Pro-War, Pro-Zionist, Climate Criminal Apartheid Australia By Dr Gideon Polya

  Racism and corruption are entrenched in politically correct racist (PC racist) White Australia, a deeply racist country that is committed to war, occupation, mass murder and race-based discrimination but ignores the consequences of its actions and vehemently protests that it is not racist. Of course most ordinary Australians are indeed not racists but the major Parties – the Liberal Party-National …

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• 24 August

  One State, Two States – Book Review, By Jim Miles

  One State, Two States – Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict. Benny Morris. Yale University Press, New Haven, NJ. 2009 This is a rather oily work to deal with, operating under the pretence of academic objectivity that “does not flatter anyone’s prejudices.” And while Benny Morris obviously knows his historical facts, “One State, Two States” reveals more of a prejudice than the …

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• 24 August

  The White House – Blog Post – Ramadan Kareem

  As the new crescent moon ushers in Ramadan, the President extends his best wishes to Muslim communities in the United States and around the world. Each Ramadan, the ninth month on the lunar calendar, Muslims fast daily from dawn to sunset for 29 or 30 days. Fasting is a tradition in many religious faiths and is meant to increase spirituality, …

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• 23 August

  Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years, By Daniel Ellsberg

  It was a hot August day in Detroit. I was standing on a street corner downtown, looking at the front page of The Detroit News in a news rack. I remember a streetcar rattling by on the tracks as I read the headline: A single American bomb had destroyed a Japanese city. My first thought was that I knew exactly …

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• 23 August

  Fasting the Month of Ramadan By Sheikh Yusuf Estes

  The fourth pillar of Islam is fasting. Allah prescribes daily fasting for all able, adult Muslims during the whole of the month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the lunar calendar, beginning with the sighting of the new moon. Exempted from the fast are the very old and the insane. On the physical side, fasting is from first light of …

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