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There is a chapter in Nick Cohen’s book, “What’s Left” – which sketches pretty much all the is wrong with a section of the Western Left – entitled “Kill Us: We Deserve It”). The essence of the argument is here.
Arthur Neslen’s remarkable and stupid piece, about his quest to meet and understand the knife wielding [...]

Is Ken Livingstone going senile? It must be the question on everyone’s lips.
Why is Ken Livingstone suddenly fixated on gay men? Is it because he feels betrayed by the gay community’s objection to his hugging of murderous homophobe Doctor Yusuf Qaradawi? The Qaradawi-affair is an unerasable stain on his career and will -hopefully – prevent [...]

John Gray’s review of Chomsky’s latest tome is worth a read:
Reading these articles, published between April 2007 and October 2011, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that, for Chomsky, America is virtually the sole obstacle to peace in the world. Crimes committed by other powers are mentioned occasionally, but only in passing. Nowhere does [...]

Once in awhile the libertarian Congressman Ron Paul– again seeking the Republican nomination for president– will say something that strikes a chord even with me.
“Look at the percentages,” he said. “The percentage of people who use [illegal] drugs are about the same with blacks and whites, and yet blacks are arrested way disproportionately. They’re [...]

Cross-posted from Petra Marquardt-Bigman at The Warped Mirror
Francis Fukuyama of “End of History” fame is contemplating “The Future of History” in the new issue of Foreign Affairs. (Note that the article will be available to non-subscribers only until 12/29/2011). The central focus of his essay is the question if liberal democracy can survive the decline [...]

An organisation called ‘Right to Work’ are getting ready to ‘mobilise’. Look out for their banners at tomorrow’s demonstrations during the public sector workers’ strike. They say:
We are a national campaign and for the last couple of years we’ve been the people in the room arguing for a combination of strikes, direct action [...]

In the comments to a recent Harry’s Place post, Communist Party of Britain general secretary Robert Griffiths wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, no CPB stall has ever sold an anti-semitic publication, not would it knowingly do so.
When the CPB received regular unsolicited copies of North Star Compass, a “communist” journal produced by ex-members of [...]

Here’s Mehdi Hasan on Comment is Free:
If you were our mullah in Tehran, wouldn’t you want Iran to have the bomb – or at the very minimum, “nuclear latency” (that is, the capability and technology to quickly build a nuclear weapon if threatened with attack)?
Let’s be clear: there is still no concrete evidence Iran is [...]

A very good piece by Jody Sabral, formerly of Press TV:
Whichever side you believe, left-wing liberals in the UK who, like Press TV, are quite rightly against another military intervention in the Middle East, are overlooking a significant point in this debate. The standards by which Press TV gathers information and presents it are very different [...]

Although Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination are now approximately nil, she continues to represent in many ways the id of the GOP Right.
So I have a feeling she wasn’t speaking entirely for herself at Saturday night’s candidates’ debate when she said:
“So what would I cut? I think really what I [...]