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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sought to make Sunday’s parliamentary elections a referendum on his government.
By that standard the verdict was “thumbs down,” as 52 percent of voters reportedly chose opposition parties rather than the ruling PSUV. While PSUV candidates won a majority of the seats in the National Assembly– due to changes in electoral laws [...]

RESPECT, and its de facto leader George Galloway, have always made a great fuss about their commitment to anti-racism.  In particular, they have always been at pains to emphasise that the party’s opposition to Israel is not motivated by antisemitism.
It is indeed possible to be opposed to the conduct of Israel, or Israel’s very existence, [...]

At the same time as denouncing “Amerikkka” for their actions in Vietnam, many in the Vietnam antiwar movement were cheering on Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong. This is but another example of those on the far-left championing brutal murderers. Below I copy an extract from a letter published in the Los Angeles Times in [...]

John Sweeney has another crack at the “church” of Scientology. It airs on Panorama, on Tuesday night.
One of the more unpleasant aspects of the manner in which Scientology attacks its critics, is the use of personal and private information against ex-members, some of it obtained during the quasi-religious “auditing” sessions which it sells to its [...]

The JC reports:
A boat carrying Jewish activists from Israel, Germany, the U.S. and Britain set sail on Sunday for Gaza, hoping to breach Israel’s blockade there and deliver aid.
Richard Kuper, an organizer with the U.K. group Jews for Justice for Palestinians, said one goal is to show that not all Jews support Israeli policies toward [...]

From Islam Online:
The martyr operations is the greatest of all sorts of Jihad in the Cause of Allah. A martyr operation is carried out by a person who sacrifices himself, deeming his life less value than striving in the Cause of Allah, in the cause of restoring the land and preserving the dignity. To such [...]

Cross-posted from Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi at American Thinker
Where is Turkey heading under Erdogan’s ruling party, the AKP? The question becomes urgent following the approval of a constitutional referendum on 12 September with a majority of 58% in favor as opposed to 42% against.
In theory, the referendum is in many ways an advancement of liberal democratic [...]

According to Labour’s London Mayoral election candidate Ken Livingstone, Yusuf al-Qaradawi is ‘one of the leading progressive voices in the Muslim world’.
Really?
Jean-Charles Brisard’s 2005 book on Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi provides the following information on Al-Qaradawi:

Ed Miliband has won the race to be the next leader of the Labour with 51% of the vote. It was a nail biting finish and he only just beat his brother, David Miliband, who in the fourth and final round of voting managed 49.35% after Ed Balls was eliminated.
It is sad to see David [...]

The historian Paul Johnson carried out a review for the Times Literary Supplement on January 18, 2002 where he had referred to Karl Marx as “an intellectual crook, who faked, bent, or suppressed evidence to suit his preconceived conclusions.”  This caused a correspondent to write in and object to the description. Below, I copy an extract [...]