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Who Goes Nazi?, By Dorothy Thompson (Harpers Magazine): Jul 28, 1:11pm 30 reviews politics
http://www.harpers.org/archive/1941/08/0020122

Believe Me, It&039;s Torture: Politics &Power: vanityfair.com: Jul 21, 10:26am 6 reviews politics
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/08/hitchens200808?printable=...

BBC NEWS | Americas | Obama team decry satirical image: Jul 14, 1:46pm 5 reviews politics, racism
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7505953.stm; A nation out of control Have these Americans finally gone totally crazy? This is the latest cover of the New Yorker, of all publications. The Obamas as Muslim terrorist traitors. The New Yorker?" Quote: "The magazine says the cartoon is intended as a satirical comment about some of the distorted right-wing attacks on the Democratic senator." You don't say! Seems to me like the editor is due for a distorted early retirement, along with all the wussy minions down the food chain who failed to advise him this might be a diabolical idea. Has the great New Yorker now joined the Nut-jobs and Cuckoos Club? Or perhaps, the Obama Assassination League? What next from these eerie cretins - a little satire of a Jewish leader in storm-trooper jackboots? Oh, I forgot. Somebody already did that, the fascistic fanatics who publicly paraded pictures of the peace-maker prime minister Yitzhak Rabin dressed as an SS officer. That was shortly before a right-wing religious thug shot him in the back. Message received and understood. And the New Yorker is now pandering to the Frothing Foxes network of screaming racists? No wonder "liberal values" has become a term of insult in this weird and crumbling empire. [The thumbs down is of course for The New Yorker, not for the BBC's report.]

Foreign Policy In Focus | Postcard from...Nicosia: Apr 9, 12:32pm 1 review politics, news, un, cyprus, nicosia
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5137; And the wall came tumbling down ... I flew to Cyprus and headed to Nicosia to watch the historic opening of a barricaded street in the last divided capital city in the world. I wasn't there when the barricades went up and split the city into north (Turkish) and south (Greek) in 1963, but it was still something of a closing circle for me. I was in Cyprus during the brutal Turkish invasion in 1974 - indeed I fled with wife and child in the car from Kyrenia to Limassol as the Turkish tanks rolled ashore west of Kyrenia where we had rented a holiday home. It was all very melancholically nostalgic for me (the child is now a married woman 10,000 km away) as my friend George Iacovou, now virtually prime minister of Cyprus since the recent election, opened the Ledra Sreet crossing on the Greek side and the curious crowds lined up to get passes north and south. There followed a sobering reminder that peace in divided Cyprus has a long way to go. As night fell some 12 hours after the opening ceremony, the barriers slammed down on Ledra Street again as Turkish occupation forces flouted a status quo agreement and penetrated deep into the UN controlled buffer zone between the two sides. Turkish guards refused to leave and the Greek Cypriot government quickly sealed off the checkpoint. After the arrival and mediation of United Nations officials, the Turkish forces withdrew back to their ceasefire positions and the crossing was reopened. [PICTURE: Left, the sealed Ledra Street, with a Greek guard post, looking north, a week before the opening. Right, the barricade has just come down, and I take this shot from the Turkish side of the border looking south. �Thamus080403]

Boston Review & gecan.php: Mar 25, 9:55am 1 review politics
http://bostonreview.net/BR33.2/gecan.php

1968: The year of the posturing rebel - Times Online: Mar 25, 9:53am 0 review politics
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3558639.ece

Robert Fisk: The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn - Robert Fisk,…: Mar 23, 5:08am 11 reviews politics
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/fisk/robert-fisk-the-only-lesson-we-ever-le...

Behind Turkeys Kurdish Problem - TIME: Nov 7, 2007 1:51pm 2 reviews politics
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1675165,00.html

JTW News - New discovered Oil resource in south of Egypt: Sep 6, 2007 3:56am 1 review politics
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=48022

Bare Breasted Andrea Merkel Shown On Polish Magazine: Jul 8, 2007 5:48am 2 reviews politics, germany, poland
http://www.masterpage.com.pl/outlook/200706/merkelbreasts.html; Bare-breasted polemics The Polish weekly Wprost issued a front cover showing a nude German chancellor, Andrea Merkel, breast-feeding the Kaczynski twins - the president and prime minister of Poland. Quote: "The cover's message is that Germany, especially Merkel, was trying to treat Poles and Polish leaders like small children who are completely unable to act on their own and somehow dependent on Germany... People feel that Germany, being more powerful, wants to dominate Poland and that the Kaczynski brothers want to stand up to this domination." There is a widely reported perception among Polish people that their country is being treated as a second-class member of the European Union. But the magazine also admitted that it used the picture because breasts sell. Just to make sure sure that there were good breasts, they montaged the head of Merkel on to the the body of a 21 year old Polish model.