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February 2014

Robert Harris: The Whistle-Blower Who Freed Dreyfus

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/opinion/the-whistle-blower-who-freed-dreyfus.html?action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&region=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article&_r=2 JAN. 17, 2014 KINTBURY, England — Georges Picquart died 100 years ago this Saturday. To which the response from most quarters is likely to be “Georges who?” Even in his native France, his centenary is passing largely unremarked. Yet in the days of Queen Victoria and Theodore Roosevelt, Picquart was a figure of global […]

Turkish Financial Crisis Adds to Region’s Chaos By David P Goldman

http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-01-050214.html More than coincidence accounts for the visit to Iran by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on January 28, the same day that his economic policy collapsed in a most humiliating way. As the Turkish lira collapsed to levels that threatened to bankrupt many Turkish companies, the country’s central bank raised interest rates, ignoring […]

As George Kennan Inspired Truman’s Foreign Policy, Now Stephen Walt Inspires Obama’s By Lee Smith|

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/161815/stephen-walt-the-new-kennan February 5, 2014 12:00 AM The postwar American strategy of containing the Soviet Union had an architect—George F. Kennan, the mysterious “Mr. X” who wrote the 1947 Foreign Affairs article that drew from the “Long Telegram,” which laid out a blueprint for American policy that prevailed until the end of Cold War. So does […]

Iran: Letter from Hussein Boroujerdi, Political Prisoner in Evin Prison Excerpts by Hussein Boroujerdi

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4159/hussein-boroujerdi-letter Translated by Banafsheh Zand “The fact is that if the God-hating and blasphemous regime’s elite do not act violently, those who oppose them and their revolution, and their so-called Republic, would pour out into the streets so that the people of the world could get a good look at the hidden realities inside this […]

Ayatollah Tortured, Near Death, in Iran for Criticizing Political Islam by Shadi Paveh

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4158/ayatollah-hossein-kazamani-boroujerdi Ayatollah Boroujerdi’s condition has reportedly worsened as of January 28, 2014, when he suffered severe body tremors and was motionless for hours in his cell. The authorities still refuse to transfer him to a medical facility and are denying him the most basic medical care. We ask for intervention to save his life. Ayatollah […]

SYDNEY WILLIAMS: WHO IS THE MODERATE?

http://swtotd.blogspot.com/ In a vivid example of the pot calling the kettle black, California Democrat Henry Waxman said he would resign at the end of this year because of the “extremism of the Tea Party Republicans.” There are few in Congress whose actions have been more extreme than Mr. Waxman’s. He was a principal architect of […]

DEMS LINE UP TO OPPOSE IRAN SANCTIONS BILL- GREG SARGENT

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/02/03/another-big-blow-to-the-iran-sanctions-bill//?print=1 The push for a new Iran sanctions bill may have stalled in the Senate, but it’s still alive and kicking in the House, where leaders are telling members such a measure could still be considered this year. Indeed, proponents of more sanctions appear to be clinging to the hope that if something passes the […]

RUTHIE BLUM- SCARLETT FEVER GONE VIRAL

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=7247 Scarlett fever gone viral When mega-star Scarlett Johansson signed on to be the famous face of the Israeli soft drink company SodaStream, she was probably unaware of the tsunami it would unleash. In her long-standing role as a goodwill ambassador for the Britain-based global charity Oxfam, Johansson was used to being lauded for fighting […]

MY SAY: TOO LATE

In William Manchester’s superb biography of General Douglas MacArthur “American Caesar” there is a very apposite quote from General MacArthur in 1937 when he was confronted by a pacifist Congress:

“The history of failure in war can be summed up in two words….”Too Late:..Too late in comprehending the deadly purpose of a potential enemy: too late in realizing the mortal danger; too late in preparedness; too late in uniting all possible forces for resistance; too late in standing with one’s friends.”
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Malik Obama’s Terrorist Scarf — on The Glazov Gang

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/cbs-edits-out-cruzs-criticism-of-obama/
This week’s Glazov Gang was joined by Ann-Marie Murrell, the National Director of PolitiChicks.tv, Dwight Schultz, a Hollywood Actor, and Tommi Trudeau, the Producer of “Groovy Foods.”

The Gang gathered to discuss Malik Obama’s Terrorist Scarf. The discussion occurred in Part II (starting at the 10:20 mark) and analyzed the media’s silence on Obama’s brother wearing a Hamas-related scarf calling for the destruction of Israel.

Does it matter that Obama’s brother wears a Hamas-related scarf calling for the destruction of Israel?