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Legitimate Questions That Need Answers

The Saker • November 28, 2019

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When I wrote my recent article "Deconstructing Islamophobia" I expected a rather outraged reaction from the usual circles, but I have to admit that the actual level of outrage and even pure rage really surprised me. In fact, I never realized that hatred for, and fear of, Islam had reached such a level, especially in... Read More

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The European New Right: Symptom of the West’s Decline?

Kevin Barrett • May 21, 2019

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During the past few decades an intellectual movement has arisen out of the ruins of what once passed for Western civilization. As the great narrative of secular humanism, materialism, and progress collapsed—its obituary was published by Lyotard as The Postmodern Condition—an odd constellation of nationalist and traditionalist thinking began shaking the foundations of Western intellectual... Read More

'Lone Wolf' Myth Covers Up Possible Mossad Role in New Zealand Terrorist Attack

Max Parry • March 27, 2019

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Ever since the news broke on March 15 of two consecutive mass shootings at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, corporate media has been determined to establish that suspect Brenton Tarrant acted alone in the terrorist attacks that took the lives of 50 innocent Muslim worshippers and wounded 50... Read More

Hating Muslims in the Age of Trump

The New Islamophobia Looks Like the Old McCarthyism

Juan Cole • October 9, 2018

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These days, our global political alliances seem to shift with remarkable rapidity, as if we were actually living in George Orwell’s 1984. Are we at war this month with Oceania? Or is it Eastasia? In that novel, the Party is able to erase history, sending old newspaper articles down the Ministry of Truth’s “memory hole”... Read More

The Dancing Israelis

Trump was right about 9/11 but they weren't Muslims

Philip Giraldi • December 1, 2015

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Senator Rand Paul, supported by a number of other congressmen, has demanded that the 28 pages of the 9/11 Commission Report that explored the Saudi Arabian role in the terrorist attack be made public. The redacted section of the report, which apparently concluded that the Saudi government itself played no direct role in 9/11, nevertheless... Read More

Al-Qaeda's Christian Mirror

Pepe Escobar • July 26, 2011

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Imagine if Anders Behring Breivik, the 32-year-old pale, blond, blue-eyed, 100% Norwegian, gun-crazy ultra right-wing Christian fundamentalist responsible for the car bombing in Oslo and the meticulous targeted assassinations at the island of Utoya that killed 93 people, was a Muslim immigrant. One does not even have to imagine it - as the concentric Western... Read More

Don't Mess with My Burqa, Monsieur

Pepe Escobar • September 17, 2010

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When it comes to Islamophobia, good old Europe - which after all invented the Crusades - certainly has nothing to envy the United States. I'm already making plans to arrive at Terminal 2 of Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris in the spring of 2011 sporting my burqa. The cruel doubt is, which one? Shall... Read More

'Dude, You Have No Koran'

Pepe Escobar • September 15, 2010

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As Islamophobia in the United States reaches bonfire of the vanities proportions - involving a composite of talk show hosts, Republican politicians, Tea Party agitators and wacko preachers (see Nobody expects the American Inquisition Asia Times Online, Sept 11, 2010) - concerned citizens across the world should note that the anti-mosque hate festival this past... Read More

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Category Classics

9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV

Laurent Guyénot

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John McCain and the POW Cover-Up

The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.

Sydney Schanberg

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America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars

Shouldn't they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East?