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Republican Congressman Ron Paul of Texas is not the face of modern conservatism that many of the more image-conscious people on the political Right would like to project.
He’s a libertarian– opposing the federal “War on Drugs” among other things– and an isolationist, opposing the invasion of Iraq and US aid to Israel and all other [...]

This is a crosspost by Just Journalism

In today’s Independent, one of its regular features included an extract from an open letter by the Middle East Monitor Online (MEMO), a media watch dog and lobby group fronted by Dr Daud Abdullah, Deputy Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain. The MCB, a lobby group that seeks to [...]

This is a press release from OutRage!
Jews, gays and kaffirs are “filth” says fanatical cleric
 
Universities fail to block “gateways” to fundamentalism and terrorism
 
London – 24 February 2010
In defiance of its own equal opportunities policy, King’s College London (KCL) is hosting the Muslim fundamentalist fanatic, Sheikh Abdullah Hakim Quick, this Thursday, 25 February, at 6pm in [...]

According to The Guardian:
Orlando Zapata Tamayo, 42, one of Amnesty International’s “prisoners of conscience”, was so emaciated he was almost unrecognisable when he died at a prison hospital in Havana.
Jailed in 2003 during a political crackdown, he is the first dissident to starve himself to death in almost four decades.
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Zapata, a former plumber and member [...]

Dear Friends
Simon Singh’s libel case v the BCA was at the Court of Appeal today in front of three of the most senior judges in England and Wales: Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger and Lord Justice Sedley. They heard arguments from both barristers on the meaning of Simon’s article [...]

Swedish Jews are the canary in the European coal-mine:
When she first arrived in Sweden after her rescue from a Nazi concentration camp, Judith Popinski was treated with great kindness.
She raised a family in the city of Malmo, and for the next six decades lived happily in her adopted homeland – until last year.
In 2009, a [...]

Shiv Malik writing in Prospect:
Earlier this month, a UCL board of inquiry was assembled to determine whether or not Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab—variously know as the “Detroit,” “Christmas,” “Syringe” and “Underwear” bomber—had been radicalised while studying for an engineering degree at the university between 2005 and 2008. So far there is scant evidence that this is [...]

Well worth reading is front cover story for this week’s New Statesman on Iran’s nuclear programme, detailing some of the interviews David  Patrikarakos has conducted around the world with the Americans, Israelis, Iranians and in the Arab world, on the nuclear impasse.
It looks at what has gone wrong since Obama took office, the problems facing him, [...]

This is a crosspost by Potkin
The video below shows the savage attack on Tehran university, three days after the disputed elections back in June 2009. This time the video is not taken by Iran’s brave citizen journalists but by the repressive forces who attacked the university themselves. It has finally been smuggled out of Iran eight [...]

Professor Malcolm Grant, the Provost of University College London has announced the make up of the Caldicott Inquiry, “the independent panel set up by the UCL Council to inquire into all matters surrounding the period of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s time as a student at UCL”.
The chair is Dame Fiona Caldicott, who is the past President [...]