Archive for December, 2009
Lest we forget
Today some people are at work as usual…
Being separated from loved ones at Christmas is never easy, but for the partners and families of those serving on the front line in Afghanistan the experience is doubly hard.
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Phillipa Stebbing’s boyfriend Pte Oliver Dodds, from Norwich, is serving in Helmand with 1st Royal Anglian, nicknamed the Vikings. [...]
Posted: December 25th, 2009 under Afghanistan.
A Seasonal Story From The BBC
It is Christmas, so as is now traditional, the BBC publishes a story which links allegations of Jewish misbehaviour to the story of Jesus:
According to the Christian tradition, shepherds were the first to visit the infant Christ.
These days, about 12,000 families still rely on herding in the West Bank.
The United Nations is warning that their [...]
Posted: December 25th, 2009 under Israel/Palestine.
The Ayatollah’s Propaganda: Part II
This is a cross post by Arash from Observing Iran
Hat tip to my friend Folderol for his help.
This post is really a follow on from what was written by Folderol a few months back, in a post entitled “The Ayatollah’s Propaganda“, a good analysis of how PressTV is simply the Mullah’s English mouthpiece. PressTV’s head [...]
Posted: December 25th, 2009 under Iran.
Merry Christmas
This is a guest post by KB Player
Posted: December 24th, 2009 under Your View.
SWP site gets makeover
Seymour’s Tomb is publicizing the snazzy, newly-redesigned Socialist Workers Party website– although the actual content looks suspiciously similar to that on the stodgy old website.
And isn’t there something a little sad about Leninists trying to be all user-friendly and up-to-date?
In the comments, Michael Rosen writes:
The SWP site must have a culture and sport section. For [...]
Posted: December 24th, 2009 under Trots.
The NPD, neo-Nazi violence, and the rise of the German far-right
This is a cross post by Edmund Standing
TIME reports on a disturbing rise in far-right extremism and neo-Nazism in Germany:
The attack seemed singularly horrific — an Egyptian pharmacist, Marwa el-Sherbini, was testifying during an appeal hearing in a Dresden courtroom on July 1 when a Russian émigré, Alex Wiens, lunged at her with a seven-inch kitchen [...]
Posted: December 24th, 2009 under Anti Fascism.
The Late Anwar Al Awlaki?
Sad news for supporters of violent jihad:
The leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and a Muslim preacher linked by U.S. intelligence to deaths at a U.S. army base are believed to have died in a Yemen air strike, a security official said on Thursday.
Yemen said 30 militants were killed in the strike in [...]
Posted: December 24th, 2009 under Islamism, Obituary.
Does He Ride A Red-Nosed Reindeer?
Whimsy, witty punning lyrics, and a social realism that gives Mike Leigh a run for his money.
Here it is: the greatest Christmas rock song: Slade’s Merry Christmas Everybody, introduced here by David “Kid” Jensen and John Peel.
Are you hanging up a stocking on your wall?
It’s the time that every Santa has a ball
Does he [...]
Posted: December 24th, 2009 under Dress Down Christmas.
“An Instructive Row”
Says the Guardian’s “Belief” editor, Andrew Brown:
An instructive row has broken out between the Quilliam Foundation, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, humanists, and progressive rabbis on the one hand, and the Green Lanes Mosque in Birmingham, over a couple of visiting Saudi imams who will preach there this weekend.
The Quilliam/BMSD complaint is that these people [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2009 under Islamism.
“The so-called tragedy”
Hussein el Haj Hassan, the Lebanese Hezbollah MP who spoke last March at a Stop the War Coalition meeting at the Friends Meeting House in London, is featured in a report on Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV station denouncing the inclusion of the “Israeli” Anne Frank’s story in the school curriculum.
Hassan, who appeared in London [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2009 under Stoppers, antisemitism.
