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Iqbal Tamimi - How come the USA politicians pray ‘God bless Am a wreck a’?

By Iqbal Tamimi • Aug 28th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Newswire, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War

For thousands of times I have watched USA president George W Bush bomb Iraq and then talk about his accomplishment with pride, and pray at the end of his speech… ‘GOD bless America’. He shelled Afghanistan many times, killing civilians, and then addressed his troops ending his speech by his old famous prayer ‘God bless [...]

Just Intellectuals? Oppression, Resistance, and the Public Role of Intellectuals

By Guest Post • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Education, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance

WRITTEN BY OMAR BARGHOUTI and first published in Institute of Social Studies
Omar Barghouti, an independent Palestinian political and cultural analyst and commentator, is a long-time advocate of a unitary, secular democratic state in historic Palestine. He is a co-founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), established in 2004, [...]