Racist David Brooks Applies His Mental Equipment to the Egypt Coup By Jim Naureckas

5 July 2013 — FAIR Blog

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David Brooks

“Islamists…lack the mental equipment to govern,” New York Times columnist David Brooks writes today (7/5/13). “Incompetence is built into the intellectual DNA of radical Islam.”

Now, Brooks has been known to cite eugenicist  Steve Sailer on “white fertility rates” (12/7/04;Extra!4/05).  But let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that rather than making a racist argument, he’s simply appearing to be racist as a metaphor (as when he wrote recently that interracial marriage was producing a “nation of mutts”–6/27/13).

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Egypt's revolution betrayed: Fuel for al-Qaeda fires By Eric Walberg

5 July 2013 — Eric Walberg

During the past few months, dozens of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members have been murdered and their offices sacked and burned. The police openly refuse to protect them. Rather than ordering the opposition to drop their demand that Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, resign, and negotiate reasonably with his government, the army gave him a Hobson’s Choice: resign or be ousted. Continue reading

The War in Mali and AFRICOM’s Agenda: Target China By F. William Engdahl

10 February, 2013 — Global Research

Part I: Africa’s New Thirty Years’ War?

Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch what is being called by some a new Thirty YearsWar Against Terrorism.

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The War in Mali and AFRICOM’s Agenda: Target China By F. William Engdahl

10 February, 2013 — Global Research

Part I: Africa’s New Thirty Years’ War?

Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch what is being called by some a new Thirty YearsWar Against Terrorism.

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U.S. Escalate Imperialist War in Mali and Niger By Abayomi Azikiwe

4 February, 2013 — Pan-African News WireGlobal Research

Hollande visits Timbuktu and then escalates bombing operations

French Socialist President Francois Hollande has visited Mali in an effort to claim victory over targeted Islamic groups based in the central and northern regions of this vast West African state. The president visited the capital of Bamako and the cities of Sevare and Timbuktu.

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Illegal Invasions, “Rogue States”, Forgotten Victims and a Shaming Plea By Felicity Arbuthnot

31 January, 2013 — Global Research

The usual suspects have embarked on another mass butchery – sorry “training exercise” – in mega-resource-rich Mali, and are meddling, with lethality, in Algeria. The UK, ever keen to kill, has gone from the Prime Minister’s “no boots on the ground” assurances, to “Operation Creep” in barely over a week.

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The real Invasion of Africa is Not News, and a Licence to Lie is Hollywood’s Gift By John Pilger

30 January 2013 — JohnPilger.com

A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger. Reported by Associated Press on Christmas Day, this was missing from most Anglo-American media.

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Mali: Here We Go Again By Sheldon Richman

28 January 2013 — Explore Freedom

In testimony before Senate and House committees, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton enthusiastically endorsed increased U.S. intervention in Africa. When government officials seem incapable of learning obvious lessons from the recent past, maybe their incentive is not to learn but to keep doing the same destructive things.

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The Coming Imperial Implosion in the Arab World By Glen Ford

23 January 2013 — Black Agenda Report

The Coming Imperial Implosion in the Arab World

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford

“Although the NATO powers account for about 70 percent of total worldwide arms spending, they are by no means fully in charge of their own offensive in North Africa and the Middle East.”

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Malian War Spreading into Niger: French Military Moves Further Into Northern Region By Abayomi Azikiwe

29 January, 2013 — Global Research — Pan-African Newswire

Reports emanating from the West African state of Mali indicate that French grounds forces accompanied by the national army from the capital of Bamako–along with a small contingent of regional troops from Niger, Burkina Faso, Togo, Senegal, Benin, Chad and Nigeria–are moving towards the northern historic city of Timbuktu. Although there has been a media blockade by the French and Malian governments about the impact of the war, details of the conditions taking place inside the country are emerging.

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New Scramble for Africa: Imperialism Plans “Decades of War” By Bill Van Auken

23 January, 2013 —

World Socialist Web Site

The French intervention in Mali, followed by the bloody siege in Algeria, represents a turning point in what has emerged as a new imperialist scramble for Africa. With these events, following on the heels of the USNATO war for regime-change in Libya and the Washington-backed sectarian civil war in Syria, mankind is witnessing a convulsive drive by the major powers to re-divide the world, its territories, markets and resources.

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 21 January 2013: Israeli Authorities Change Route Of Wall To Fully Annex Jerusalem For Israel

21 January 2012 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

Army Demolishes Six Residential Structures Near Hebron
IMEMC – Monday – January 21, Israeli soldiers invaded the Ath-Thaheriyya town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and demolished six Palestinian homes and structures. …

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ICH 21 January 2013: Bomber in Chief: 20,000 Airstrikes in the President’s First Term

21 January 2013 — Information Clearing House

 

Algeria Hostage Crisis:

Most Weapons Used in Attack Came From Libya

By Mélanie Matarese, Algiers

The Islamists wore the same type of outfits that Qatar provided to Libyan National Transitional Council rebels by Qatar – The also employed 60mm gun-mortars used by France and Libyan rebels.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33673.htm

 

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 20 January 2013: The long road to Bab al-Karama

20 January 2012 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

Soldiers Kidnap Mother And Her Baby Near Hebron
IMEMC – Saturday January 19, Israeli soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian woman and her 18-month old baby, in the Um Al Arayes area, east of Yatta town, near the southern West bank city of Hebron. …

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 18 January 2013: Bibi can relax – the ’center-left’ is really on the right

18 January 2012 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

Child Seriously Injured By Army Fire In Bethlehem
IMEMC – Friday evening, a Palestinian child was seriously injured during clashes that took place between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youths in the Aida refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. …

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GR Week in Review 19 January 2013: The Scramble for Africa

19 January 2013 — Global Research

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Mali Conflict Could Refuel Algeria’s Civil WarAbayomi Azikiwe, January 18, 2013

Interview with Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African News Wire

In regard to the situation in Algeria, there has been over the last two decades insurgencies led by Islamist forces there and it appeared as if these difficulties and conflicts had… Continue reading