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Best of the Web: Testimonies of two eyewitnesses near the bombed Dome

Signs of the Times 24/02/2006

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:00 EST

As with so many other events of global significance in recent years, the official story about the bombing of the Shia shrine in Iraq two days ago has very quickly started to stink and reveal many inconsistencies...

Reader's Letters The Herald.co.uk February 24 2006

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:00 EST

A reader writes to the UK Herald:

Iraq is a land replete with many wonders, not least of which is/was the al-Askari shrine in Samarra. Twenty years ago I was on my way to al-Hatra, a fifth-century Greek settlement (near Mosul), when I first saw the Golden Mosque in Samarra. We also climbed the famous tower with its perilously open-spiral staircase. This venerated shrine has now been detroyed, its flanking minarets still forlornly standing, thus only underlining the loss of the famous dome itself.

Best of the Web: The Daily Battle Against Subjectivity

Signs Editors
Signs of the Times
Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:00 EST

If the world is the expression of those who inhabit it, the mirror of ourselves and our ways of interacting with each other, then surely the only way for the world to evolve is for its inhabitants to evolve.

By Genevieve Cora Fraser

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:00 EST

Call it déjà vu but Israeli television reports are branding Mahmoud Abbas as irrelevant in a move identical to their position toward the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat. And though Hamas has largely honored the truce established last year, not only has Israel broken that truce over 24,000 times resulting in nearly 200 Palestinians deaths, Shin Bet has rejected an extended truce with Hamas.

Best of the Web: The Real Enemy and What YOU Can Do

Laura Knight-Jadczyk

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:00 EST

Last week I wrote an editorial to kick off our Semi-annual Fundraiser. In that editorial I quoted a popular political action group's fund-raising report that informs us that, from 6,613 contributors, they were able to raise $389,900 in a single DAY. That averages out to $58.00 per person. Not a big expenditure for everyone, but the total is what is amazing. That total is a result of the large base of supporters they have which they have as a result of early advertising and very public and prominent activities where they make a big splash but actually accomplish zilch. They added that "This generosity gives us a great deal of hope." I, on the other hand, did not express much hope at all that pursuing change via political action within the existing system would accomplish a thing.

Best of the Web: Bush Neocons: Going After Fifth Columnists

Tuesday February 21st 2006, 3:13 pm

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:00 EST

David Horowitz, on the paycheck of the reactionary Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and CIA collaborator Richard Scaife's foundation, ranted and raved back at the outset of the Iraqi invasion in early 2003, issuing shrill warnings about a "Fifth Column preparing to move into action to attempt to defeat America in its war against Saddam." According to Horowitz, the incipient "peace movement is not about peace" but is instead "a fifth column communist movement" determined "to destroy America and give victory to our totalitarian enemies."

Best of the Web: The Chomsky/Blankfort Polemic

Réseau Voltaire February 20, 2006

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:00 EST

"The anti-war movement has failed"Tel-Aviv and Washington are linked in the Middle East. That's a fact. But the importance of this link in Washington's colonial politics is being debated in the anti-imperialist movment. For the US Jewish, anti-Zionist journalist Jeffrey Blankfort, Israeli influence is central to US policy and the anti-war movement has failed because of their inability to understand the importance of this lobby. Having developed a radical approach to this question, going so far as to deny the energy factor in the war in Iraq, Mr. Blankfort nonetheless opens interesting paths on Zionist influence in the United States. We reproduce an interview he gave to journalist Silvia Cattori.

by Jason Miller 21/02/2006

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:00 EST

Blaring its typical jarringly cacophonous morning radio jabber, the suddenly welcome sound of my alarm rescued me from the maelstrom of a nightmarish Neocon world spawned within my unconscious mind. As consciousness flooded my being, I had an epiphany. My breed of human being is a pariah in the American Empire.

Best of the Web: Crisis of the Republic

Henry See Signs of the Times February 20, 2006

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:00 EST

Many people in the United States see that their country is in the midst of the greatest crisis it has ever faced. However, as long as they remain blind to the fact that their government was complicit in the attacks of 9/11, they will remain impotent to confront their adversary, underestimating its deviousness and malicious character.

Best of the Web: Saddam Tapes Tainted by Cherney Foundation

Kurt Nimmo Another Day in the Empire

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:00 EST

All of a sudden Saddam, or one of his groomed doubles, is talking on tape. Bush was right all along about Iraqs weapons of mass destruction, or at least partially right, and there is a new shine of legitimacy on the invasion of Iraq and the murder of thousands of Iraqis who probably should have known better than to live in a country with such a perfidious dictator, a guy who messed around with weapons of mass destruction behind the back of the United Nations and the Greatest Darn Country on Earth.

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