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Jul 13 2009
Ashkelon Speaks: The Story of the Middle East Conflict
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By MWC News   

The modern Israeli city of Ashkelon, 20 kilometers north of the Gaza border, presents a picturesque setting along the Mediterranean coast. Sparkling white beaches matched by white-faced apartment buildings, green lawns and several wide boulevards depict a tranquil and content city. Ashkelon, the city with the biblical name, is not peaceful. Grad rockets from Gaza have struck the city on several occasions. By arguments of war, the damage has not been extensive, but no damage can be ignored; one fatality and dozens wounded. With the damage repaired, nothing out of the ordinary mars the senses in the Ashkelon of June 2009.

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Tags:  Dan Lieberman Ashkelon Middle East Gaza border
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The Left and Islam
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By Gilad Atzmon   

Before I launch into a disclosure of liberal and leftist delusional treatment of religions, Islam and Palestine in particular, I would like to share with you a bad racist joke. Beware; you may not want to share this short tale with your feminist friends.

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Tags:  Gilad Atzmon The Left Islam Secular Box
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Immigration Destruction Under Obama
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By MWC News   

In yet another effort to continue the policies of the Bush administration, the Obama administration is targeting American companies that hire illegal immigrants. But to demonstrate that being a compassionate liberal is better than being a compassionate conservative, Obama’s immigration gendarmes aren’t conducting violent publicity-seeking raids on the businesses. Instead, they’re sending written notices to targeted companies threatening civil fines and orders to fire the illegal workers.

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Tags:  Jacob G. Hornberger US Immigration
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Confessions and Torture in Iran
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By MWC News   

According to the New York Times, Iranian officials have announced that they have secured confessions from top reformers to a conspiracy to bring down the Iranian government. The paper stated that such confessions are “almost always extracted under duress.” 

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Tags:  Jacob G. Hornberger Iranian officials Omid Memarian Ali Afshari Iranian dissidents
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Beyond Independence
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By Robert Jensen   
We are most free when we are most bound to others

Power is typically approached as a question of dominance and submission. Power is marked by the ability to impose or the ability to resist that imposition. This is what some have called “power-over,” [1] which assumes a zero-sum game in which individuals are always in competition for that power—someone dominates and someone submits. In such a world, one can use this kind of power with varying levels of responsibility to others, but in such a world it is inevitable that power routinely will be used unjustly.

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Tags:  Robert Jensen Independence Day July 4
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