Yesterday, in my Inter-Travels I came across this post at Harry’s Place (hatip: SMASH). It points a peice in the Observer which equates Islamic extremism with the G8s elitism as fanaticism in diferent forms. Here’s a quote: The so-called war against terrorism is, in fact, a war between two fanaticisms. To bracket the two together …
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After the attacks in London, the “War on Terror” and Terrorism in general has again taken center stage. (Audio Podcast Available) But what has changed? Did the London bombings expose a permanent weakness, or was it only there because of a mistake or focus elsewhere? You simply can’t be prepared for everything. In a free …
Farshid Faraji is an Iranian documentary filmmaker that has been travelling around the Middle East working on his latest project titled “In Search of Cyrus the Great”. (Audio Podcast Available) His final destination was Babylon in the heart of Iraq. Unfortunately, after only a week in Iraq, he was arrested by US Forces and has …
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