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Gordon Hearts Israel
Clearly unperturbed by reactions to his recent love-in with Israel, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has opted for an encore with this lengthy eulogy that tweaks heart-strings, dampens eyes, and calls out … more »
Caledoniyya
Gordon Hearts Israel
laylatoot wrote 16 hours ago: Clearly unperturbed by reactions to his recent love-in with Israel, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has … more »
Capturing Karadzic
laylatoot wrote 2 days ago: After almost thirteen years on the lam, the former Serb politician Radovan Karadžić (Радова … more »
Pot, Kettle, Media Scrum...Or Not
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laylatoot wrote 6 days ago: Once more, I have been driven by the divine forces of procrastination - or the sheer jubilation of f … more »
Middle East Illusions
laylatoot wrote 6 days ago: In Middle East Illusions, Noam Chomsky unites previous and new material to construct a review of con … more »
"The Arab Mandela"? The Return of Samir al-Kuntar
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laylatoot wrote 1 week ago: For the past few days the prisoner exchange has been observed with bated breath: would Israel and Le … more »
Srebrenica, Remembered
laylatoot wrote 1 week ago: While I am aghast that this post is rising two days too late, I cannot dismiss it, for to remember - … more »
Update: Marya Aman
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laylatoot wrote 1 week ago: Last September I posted on the case of six-year-old Marya Aman, and while I have endeavored to track … more »
Brown's Blooper Petition
laylatoot wrote 1 week ago: After a hectic week of graduation preparations - more on which shall follow anon. - I am once more i … more »
Ingrid Betancourt: Freed
laylatoot wrote 3 weeks ago: On average, 8,000 kidnappings take place annually, from the Northern Caucasus to China, South Ameri … more »
No Visa, No Graduation
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laylatoot wrote 3 weeks ago: Next week I will be attending my graduation, or, as I like to term it, “Ritual Humiliation Whi … more »
Textbooks at Dawn: Academic Über-Censorship
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laylatoot wrote 4 weeks ago: Censorship, it seems, is an all-pervasive bête noire, and one that is infiltrating academic circles … more »
Cluster Bombs: Speak Now, Or Never Hold Your Peace
laylatoot wrote 1 month ago: In the melee of soapboxes espousing causes and concerns, it is all too easy to overlook individuals … more »
Buns'n'Guns: When War Gets Culinary
laylatoot wrote 1 month ago: If your Doha ice-cream didn’t quite stifle the hunger pangs, why not stroll over to west Beir … more »
The Blame Game
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laylatoot wrote 1 month ago: Feeling cantankerously under the weather, I was hoping to unearth a real spirit-lifter, but instead … more »
Shelter
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laylatoot wrote 1 month ago: Taken in Iraq. [Via: al-akhbar] … more »
Settler Attack
laylatoot wrote 1 month ago: A sombre end to the evening’s revelries. For further information, visit B’Tselem. [Via: … more »
Justice for Haditha?
laylatoot wrote 1 month ago: This is the first outcome on the trial of eight soldiers for the massacre at Haditha - or, as it is … more »
All Because the Lady Loves Paisley
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laylatoot wrote 1 month ago: It seems I missed a grave case of losing touch on reality by Fox News cronies earlier this week: D … more »
Nahr al-Bared: Film Update
laylatoot wrote 1 month ago: Following on from my last post concerning Nahr al-Bared, here is a quick update courtesy of a-films … more »
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