Washington Post Ombudsman Defends Jennifer Rubin’s Post About the Norway Attack

What is the point of having an ombudsman if all they are going to do is get defensive and rationalize the nonsense that gets printed by their writers/bloggers? So much for accountability. I won’t bore you with a total re-hashing of the controversy, which I wrote about at length when it happened. I was one […]

The National Security State: If We Keep This Up The Terrorists Win

The events of 9/11 have spawned an understandable focus on security, however, the extent of fear-mongering, Islamophobia and ongoing curtailment of civil liberties, along with the meteoric rise of an unwieldy national security state which operates like a secret government within a government, is at odds with the principles and values of representative democracy. The […]

Anders Behring Breivik’s European Declaration of Independence 2083

This is the first chance I’ve had to actually go read some of Anders Breivik’s, aka Andrew Berwick, 1500 page manifesto against Islam, assimilation, multiculturalism and liberalism. Breivik is of course responsible for the terrorist attack in Norway. You can take a look at it here. The reason I went over and read some of […]

It’s Only Terrorism If The Perpetrator Is Muslim *updated*

Yesterday I wrote about how the media’s response to the attack in Norway changed dramatically after it was revealed that the perpetrator was a White, right-wing Islamophobe who was an avid reader of American right wing blogs. What was initially described as an obvious terrorist attack soon became the work of a “lone wolf” motivated […]

The Israeli Right Has Totally Lost It

At least J-Post lets their racism hang right out there in the open. I’m not even going to excerpt it. Basically, they want to draw attention away from the fact that the Norway killer, Anders Breivik, was a far, far right Islamophobe and Zionist and to the importance of his message- that, in their view, […]

Glenn Beck is an Idiot

Glenn Beck is in search of headlines and relevance, and thus he is holding his “Restoring Courage” rally at one of the holiest sites in Jerusalem, The Temple Mount/Haram Ash-Sharif. I guess his rambling speech to the Knesset the other week didn’t garner him enough attention. Beck is apparently going to Jerusalem because he thinks […]

Fox News Headlines Vs. Real News Headlines

This is via Buzzflash. It shows how Fox spins certain headlines to, shall we say, appeal to their own unique audience. Here are a few of the samples but go here to check them all out, they are too funny: Actual Headline: Fox News Headline: Actual Headline: Fox News Headline: Actual Headline: Fox Headline: Actual […]

U.S. Militarism and Women’s Rights

This is a subject that I’ve been interested in for a long time. I’ve always had a hard time rationalizing certain feminist principles with the United States’ hawkish foreign policy. How can we as a country proclaim our unyielding support for women around the world while at the same time advocating military solutions to almost […]

Secretary Clinton Announced Willingness for Dialogue w/ Muslim Brotherhood and Neocons Heads Explode

Part of the neocon book of hypocritical non-diplomacy is a policy of never talking with people with whom you disagree, except when you do talk to them. Then, when other people do the exact same thing, you denounce them as cheese-eating surrender monkeys. Secretary Clinton on Friday announced the obvious- that the U.S. would be […]

What I’ve Learned on Twitter Today

What I’ve learned on Twitter today is that by far the most hateful, rude, obnoxious people on Twitter are the hard-core Zionists. The language and values they espouse are right down there with Pinochet and a certain German circa 1935. On the other hand, the Palestinians, Jordanians, and Palestinian rights supporters of all backgrounds are […]

This Week in Crazy: Washington Times Speculates Anthony Weiner Converted to Islam *updated*

Just when I thought the Washington Times couldn’t sink any lower, well, it did. You see, the Washington Times thinks your washroom is breeding Muslim extremists and pretty much any mainstream story, in their view, hides a more nefarious agenda. Just to show they can fit Islamofascism into any current event, today they have really […]