“The speed with which Algeria has gone from symbol of revolutionary socialism to Islamic battleground has confounded most observers,” states the blurb for The Call From Algeria: Third Worldism, Revolution, and the Turn to Islam by Robert Malley (UC, 1996)…. Read moreAlgerians jailed for eating lunch
Noam Chomsky appears to be joining his one-time co-author Edward Herman in loaning legitimacy to denial of (or outright cheerleading for) the genocide in the former Yugoslavia. David Adler notes on his Lerterland blog an Oct. 31 interview with The… Read moreChomsky jumps on Bosnia revisionism bandwagon
Once again, do we want to take bets on whether this will be on the front page of tommorrow’s New York Times? Another 20 Shi’ites killed by the glorious Iraqi “resistance,” this time in Basra. From the Nov. 1 edition… Read moreAnother slow news day in Iraq
We always knew the Pentagon had no sense of humor, but this really proves it. This case, reported in Newsday Oct. 31, is truly Orwellian on multiple levels: it reads like a dark political satire, and it concerns two Afghan… Read moreAfghan writers sent to Gitmo for satire
At least random acts of mass murder still make headlines when they happen in Delhi. In Iraq, it’s just considered another slow news day at this point. Nothing about this currently appears on the front page of Google News. Will… Read moreMore mass murder in Iraq: who cares?
Well, India and Pakistan make a courageous and historic decision to open the militarized Line of Control that divides Kashmir in order to allow aid through to remote earthquake-stricken villages (Reuters, Oct. 29). What, putting aside sectarian and geo-political concerns… Read moreHope in Kashmir, terror in Delhi: unity of opposites?
After centuries of clandestinity, the crypto-Jews or Marranos of the US Southwest are starting to boogie in public, and there are even numerous web pages devoted to them (Marranos, The Secret Jews, Who Are the Crypto-Jews?). You know their moment… Read moreSouthwest crypto-Jews make NY Times; crypto-Muslims still subaltern?
The pending indictments in the Plame affair are providing interesting fodder for those intent on analyzing internal splits within the ruling elites. OK, all you domestic Kremlinologists out there—who is really runnning the show at the White House? Has Dubya… Read moreWho’s in charge?
Yeah, it makes us feel dirty, but we really didn’t have any choice. WW4 Report is now carrying Google Ads. We had a hard time imagining what kinds of ads would be directed to our site by Google’s mysterious algorithm—”Meet Chechen Singles”?… Read moreWW4 REPORT sells out!
While the idiot left is busy blaming the Jews, the people who really run the planet are laughing all the way to the bank. Big oil rakes in historic profits While drivers have been paying up at the pump, profit… Read moreBig oil rakes in historic profits, keeps alternative energy off market
On Oct. 26, John D. Negroponte, the first director of national intelligence, released a detailed National Intelligence Strategy for coordinating the nation’s 15 spy agencies. It calls for building up the ranks of intelligence operatives and analysts and delineates new… Read moreNegroponte gives CIA new powers; Jew-haters make hay
The Lebanese army has besieged military positions run by the People’s Front for Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), including a network of tunnels dug in the mountains in Sultan Yaqoub (Jacob) area in the eastern Bekaa Valley. Lebanese authorities are… Read moreStand-off in Bekaa Valley
