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Dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez of Generation Y has received a response from the government’s General Customs department to her complaint about the confiscation of ten copies of her book Cuba Libre, a compilation of some of her blog posts about daily life on the island.
Among the “facts” provided by General Customs:
The contents of the [...]

As it happens, one of the best take-downs of rightwing blowhard Rush Limbaugh appeared on the website of that hotbed of leftwing anti-Americanism, Motor Trend magazine.
Ignorantly even for Limbaugh, he said on his radio show: “Folks, of all the cars, no offense, General Motors, please, but of all the cars in the world, the Chevrolet [...]

Earlier this week we covered the Guardian’s report on men living in Britain going on jihad tours with the Taliban in Afghanistan, where their targets include British soldiers.
It was a shocking report which people found outrageous.
Not Fahad Ansari, the Cageprisoners activist.
You may recall Ansari is the man who sung the praises of “inspirational” al Qaeda [...]

Despite the absence of well-known supermodels and actors for over two months, the war-crimes trial of Charles Taylor, 22nd President of Liberia has continued at The Hague just as it had been in process for almost two years beforehand. The final witness was called on 9 November, and the defence team rested its case on [...]

As one of the students who got charged on what they called ‘The battle of Westminster Bridge’ way back in 1988, where students were trampled, there’s nothing scarier than mounted police coming at you.
This was posted from the November 24 #demo2010 by someone on YouTube called Massif10: “I wasn’t planning on uploading this, I assumed [...]

This is a guest post by amie
For the Russell Tribunal on Palestine session held at the Law Society over the weekend, Israel’s guilt was never to be the elephant in the room. That elephant had already been buried under a boulder marked “Proved.” As Frank Barat, RT coordinator wrote in the Jewish Chronicle, “there is [...]

This is a cross-post from A Rabbit’s Eye-View of the Hyperborean North.

… to embarrass the next as well suggests you are a bit of a blabbermouth.
Still, at least no-one would consider mocking the Speaker.
Update – as the comments threads descend into a Swiftian netherworld of reaction which is stalked by walking uteruses intent only on [...]

This is a guest post by by Amjad Khan
It seems that entryist Islamist groups like the MCB and MAB are focusing all their energies on exposing incidents of ‘Islamophobia’ nowadays. They have helped to fund an outfit called the EMRC (European Muslim Research Centre) which masquerades as a research centre but in truth does little [...]

This is a cross-post by Alex Meleagrou-Hitchens
When it emerged last May that Stephen Timms MP had been stabbed by a young woman wearing a hijab, most people dismissed it as an isolated act by a deranged individual, rather than any indication of a broader trend. As Roshonara Choudhary’s case has now drawn to a close, it [...]

A Washington Post editorial on this Thanksgiving Day quotes from President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first Thanksgiving proclamation in 1933.
“May we ask guidance in more surely learning the ancient truth that greed and selfishness and striving for undue riches can never bring lasting happiness or good to the individual or to his neighbors. May we be [...]