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I know it’s not really a laughing matter, but I couldn’t help noticing that two of the Iranian “students” who stormed the British embassy in Tehran made off with pictures of Her Majesty and a scene from the movie “Pulp Fiction.”
What a blow against imperialism!

At Tehran Bureau, Setareh Sabety writes:
Unlike the seizure of the [...]

This is about something which went viral.

Since we at Harry’s Place are often called part of the “decent Left” (and not always in a nice way), I think it’s appropriate to acknowledge this act of decency by Atlanta sheriff’s deputies and moving company workers in declining to enforce the wishes of the world’s second largest bank in terms of assets.

Alec adds: [...]

Laura Stuart has previously spoken at a London PSC meeting, warning the PSC about “people in the Finchley area” who have dual loyalties. She received a round of applause for this from the PSC activists.
In September, whilst defending Gilad Atzmon, Laura Stuart emailed an antizionist activist this video, entitled What Famous Men Say About the Jews (all negative), uploaded [...]

(Editor’s note: Can someone please make sure the easily-impressed Andy Newman of Socialist Unity sees this post?)
Guest post by DaveM
The Ba’athist regime responded to the Arab League’s decision to impose sanctions on Syria with predictable indignation. The centre of Damascus and other cities throughout the country witnessed more mass rallies in support of Bashar [...]

Today’s public sector strike took place after the Chancellor dealt a series of further blows to workers and families, including scrapping an increase in child tax credits, limiting any pay rises in the public sector to 1%, and bringing an end to national pay bargaining.   That’s on top of the attacks on workers’ pensions.  Brendan [...]

Dr Jim West is a Baptist preacher.
Dr Jim West says this of the anti-Nazi activist and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who plotted to kill Hitler:
Personally I never really cared for his theology.  Too whiny.  Plus plotting to murder someone, even a horrible someone… well, it’s just worse than anything Pat Robertson or Fred Phelps ever said.
If you’re [...]

This is a cross-post from falsedichotomies.com
This is an open letter from Nic Schlagman in response to a letter by Aron Adler last week that was circulated widely around the Jewish world.
Dear Aron,
I take comfort from reading your kind and heartfelt words about your experiences patrolling the Egyptian border, and your feelings on the importance of offering dignified [...]

There are people in the United States who desperately want Sarah Palin to run for president.
They’re called Conservatives4Palin, they have a website dedicated to pushing the case for the former Republican Vice Presidential nominee’s agenda, and they have raised enough money from supporters to run a TV ad. Go figure.

From Terry Glavin’s book Come from the Shadows: The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan, pages 214-218:
Unlike the British intellectuals, and unlike the core American contingent from the Young Communist League in New York, the largest single group of Canadians who fought in [the Spanish civil war of the 1930s] came out [...]