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Galloway, Ridley, Wight and the other defenders of the anti-imperialist government forces in Iran, battling the counterrevolutionary North Tehran elite, will be pleased to know that those forces have bravely taken the fight to inanimate objects.

(Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan.)

Since this blog serves truth, perhaps some of its readers will appreciate some newly revealed wisdom from Birmingham:

7/7 Ripple Effect, released two years after the attacks, goes much further than just posing questions.
The narrator alleges the four men blamed for the bombings were in fact fall guys in a government plot to win support for [...]

Socialist Unity reported:
Today Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney… The passengers and crew are being forcibly dragged toward Israel.
I posted a comment noting that:
–Haaretz reported the Israeli [...]

A report has appeared on Press TV that will surely cheer champions of truth everywhere. The Iranian authorities are chasing down Neda’s murderer. Here is the report, in toto, as presented on Press TV’s web site:
Ahmadinejad orders probe into Neda’s ’suspicious’ death
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked the Judiciary chief to conduct a [...]

Alexander Hitchens writes about the STWC’s newest jape, here:
Exposing the Kafa project’s extremist supporters will only go so far. The best way to combat them is to provide a sane alternative, with speakers and supporters who are honestly devoted to helping Muslims in this country and who will not push a pro-Islamist and anti-western agenda.  Muslims [...]

Once again, Terry Glavin cuts through the crap and manages to separate the principles of a genuine Left from the overgrown, entangled weeds of “anti-imperialism.”
Borrowing from Bob Dylan, he writes:
What’s dying is a cynical “anti-imperialist” politics that divides the world into two camps, with American-Israeli imperialists on one side and a “resistance” of plucky Islamists [...]

Tuesday 30th June, 7 – 9pm, Jubilee Room, Houses of Parliament, SW1A 0AA
Top US academic Alon Ben-Meir will speak about the possibilities of peace in the Middle East. Alon will be travelling to the Middle East the week prior to this event to gauge reaction in Jordan, Israel & Palestine to headway [...]

It isn’t much, I grant you:
LBC presenter, Nick Ferrari, who also presented programs on Press TV, was confronted with angry listeners who were critical of him working for the Islamic Republic funded Press TV. Nick however claimed he had already resigned from Press TV two weeks ago following the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters and any [...]

Here’s a new film from AJC.
“More than land, more than water, more than borders, more than settlements, the main hurdle to peace in the Middle East is an idea: that Jews have no right to their own state in a territory where they have lived throughout history.”

Gene posted on Friday about the special English/Farsi version of We Shall Overcome that Joan Baez made for YouTube in support of Iranian democracy protesters. This reminded me how important music is as a motivational force – whether spreading ideas or just keeping people’s spirits up.
On this subject, there is a post on the Drowned [...]