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Signs of the Times for Mon, 22 May 2006

From Holocaust To Armageddon

Joe Quinn
Signs of the Times
22/05/2006

At this late hour, having already had my fill of incredible nonsense passed off as truth, I need to get something off my chest. Everyone who retains but a residue of that once common human attribute that is now seems vanishingly rare - common sense - can clearly see that the major Zionist organizations and entities (the State of Israel, the ADL, AIPAC and the NeoCons to name but a few) have, for the past 60 years, shamelessly manipulated the deaths of 6 million Jews to further their own selfish agendas. But what, exactly, is the agenda?...

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Signs Economic Commentary

Donald Hunt
Signs of the Times
May 22, 2006

Last week saw a pullback in commodity prices with gold dropping 8.6% and oil dropping 5.4%. In other reversals of recent trends, the dollar gained ground after some down weeks. While such reversals might seem like good signs for the world economy, the increasing volatility of markets in recent weeks is not a good sign at all.

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The Storm over the Israel Lobby

By Michael Massing
Volume 53, Number 10 · June 8, 2006
NeW York Review of Books

Not since Foreign Affairs magazine published Samuel Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations?" in 1993 has an academic essay detonated with such force as "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy," by professors John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Published in the March 23, 2006, issue of the London Review of Books and posted as a "working paper" on the Kennedy School's Web site, the report has been debated in the coffeehouses of Cairo and in the editorial offices of Haaretz. It's been called "smelly" (Christopher Hitchens), "nutty" (Max Boot), "conspiratorial" (the Anti-Defamation League), "oddly amateurish" (the Forward), and "brave" (Philip Weiss in The Nation). It's prompted intense speculation over why The New York Times has given it so little attention and why The Atlantic Monthly, which originally commissioned the essay, rejected it.

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