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Robert Fisk and the language of power, danger words: Competing Narratives

Celebrated reporter -and verb- Robert Fisk had harsh words, “danger words” he called them, for host Al-Jazeera where he gave an address about the language of power which has infected newsman and reader alike. Beware your unambiguous acceptance of empty … Continue reading

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T -6 for humanitarian convoy to Gaza

FREEDOM FLOTILLA UPDATE- As the MV Rachel Corrie steams past the Straits of Gibraltar, loading operations quicken in Istanbul and Athens and Gaza. Israel announces a counter-protest fleet to carry banners which finger Hamas and harangue Turkey for its Armenian … Continue reading

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Armenian Genocide threatens Turkish-US relations…

But not the ongoing Genocide against the Kurds. Why? Possibly because the Armenians are at least in name Christian, and the Kurds are not? How about, more likely, the Fact that ongoing genocidal war against the Kurds has been facilitated … Continue reading

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Holocaust denial

Tomorrow is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day but not everybody is remembering. Some want to forget. Some want everybody else to forget, too. Holocaust denial apparently is a crime for some people, and not a crime for others.

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