Tom Callinan, Cincinnati.Com, 19 April 2010
“Fox News never agreed to allow the Cincinnati Tea Party organizers to use Sean Hannity’s television program to profit from broadcasting his show from the event,” said Bill Shine, Fox’s executive vice president of programming. “When senior executives in New York were made aware of this, we changed our plans.”
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As far I can tell, Fox suits have made their own moola by aligning the network closely with the Tea Party movement.
By JAMES BOVARD
Yesterday, on the fifteenth anniversary of the attack on the federal office building in Oklahoma City, former President Bill Clinton had an op-ed in the New York Times headlined: “Violence is Unacceptable in a Democracy.” The article settles any doubts about whether Clinton was one of the most talented demagogues of modern times.
Casting a net of collective guilt over much of the 48 contiguous states, Clinton announced that the 1995 bombing was the fault of people who believed “that the greatest threat to American freedom is our government, and that public servants do not protect our freedoms, but abuse them.” People who distrusted government helped echo ideas which somehow persuaded “deeply alienated and disconnected Americans” to carry out the attack.
Rachel Shabi’s book builds on a tradition of resistance to the Eurocentric Jewish narrative
Reviewed by Jordann Saliba Sullivan
In a time when the Middle East is portrayed as a hotbed of religious and ethnic conflict, the label “Arab Jew” seems like an oxymoron. From the beginning of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict onward, Arabs and Jews have been painted as separate, warring peoples, fighting over religion, land and even their place in history. Moreover, Israel has sufficiently demonized Arab culture as to have virtually eliminated the classification of “Arab Jew” from its modern lexicon. However, perhaps the two aren’t as disparate as we’ve been led to believe.
Author Rachel Shabi’s first book, We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands, eloquently combats the notion that Arabs and Jews are cut from a different cloth. Shabi was born in Israel to Iraqi parents, and grew up in the UK. Her book explores the little-discussed fate of “Mizrahi” Jews from Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, Yemen, and other Arab/Muslim nations who immigrated to Israel. Shabi critically yet thoughtfully examines the vast socio-economic disparity that characterizes the Mizrahi and European “Ashkenazi” experiences in Israel.
by Kevin Baron, Stars and Stripes, 15 April 2010
The new directive is the first at the Defense Department-level to address Internet-based supremacist affiliations. It went unannounced until it was reported in a blog Friday by Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff, who tracked down the military service records of two members of the Michigan-based Hutaree militia group that recently was raided by federal law enforcement groups.
Such groups are “detrimental to good order, discipline, or mission accomplishment,” the Pentagon now says.
Last July, Stars and Stripes reported that 130 members of newsaxon.org, a social networking Web site affiliated with the National Socialist Movement, had listed “military” as their job in “Facebook”-style user profiles. Swatsikas, Nazi symbolism and militant imagery emblazon the site.
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