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Does it say anything about the nature of our posts and comments that this ad has been appearing lately on our blog?

And that the guy in the ad looks a little like a young George Galloway?

Guest-Post from Alex Stein of falsedichotomies.com
Expect to see a lot of needless whooping about this. ABC”s George Stephanopoulos interviewed Iranian President Ahmadinejad last week, and asked the following question: “If the Palestinians sign an agreement with Israel, will Iran support it?”
Ahmedinajad’s response was conciliatory: “Whatever decision they take is fine with us. We are [...]

Some commenters seem to think British Jews are facing real danger, and need to make plans to leave the country. I have fond memories of my visits to Britain, so I hope their fears are exaggerated. But in my years of participating in this blog, I’ve seen too many disturbing reports to feel completely sanguine. [...]

This is a guest post by Tom Gallagher, Professor of Ethnic Conflict and Peace at the University of Bradford
‘Stop the World We Want To Get on’. These were the words of Winifred Ewing, now the Grande Dame of Scottish Nationalism, when she won a sensational by-election in 1967, an event which marked the debut [...]

Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs has been reporting on an ‘anti-Islamisation’ conference organised by Pro Köln, which is the successor to the neo-fascist “Deutsche Liga für Volk und Heimat“.
We expect fascists to use anti-Muslim bigotry to advance their hateful politics. The British National Party are following precisely the same agenda in the United Kingdom.
If [...]

Ceske Noviny reports:
The Czech police arrested David Duke, former leader of the Ku Klux Klan racist movement, in Prague today on suspicion of promotion of movements seeking suppression of human rights, Prague police spokesman told CTK.
Arriving in the Czech Republic at the invitation of local neo-Nazis, Duke was to give lectures in Prague and [...]

I would normally ignore these appalling jerks, except that they happened to be “protesting” outside the high school from which I graduated many long years ago.

You can read the Guardian’s self-justification here.
You can watch it online here.
This is the Guardian’s next theatrical project.

Foreign Policy features a photo essay by Tomas van Houtryve providing haunting images of life inside the ‘Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’.
The ideological basis for this ‘Great Revolutionary Society’ can be found here, where we read that the Juche philosophy has ‘raised [human beings'] dignity and value to the highest level possible’.
(H/T Mick Hartley)

Tony Blair has given an absolutely fantastic speech in Chicago. Oliver Kamm extracts one particularly good passage. There’s another taster below. But you really should read it all.
Finally, we are required to do something that it seems rather odd to have to say. We have to re-discover some confidence and conviction in who we are, [...]