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14 years ago @ Antiwar Radio with Sco... - Pepe Escobar · 0 replies · +1 points
I am pretty sure that like Escobar this fellow hasn't read Brzezinski's book. Escobar hasn't offered a single original insight in 10 years. He visits Juan Cole's blog and passes everything he reads with approrpiately embellished conspiratorial overtones to a generally passive audience who want some kind of a grand conspiracy in order to absolve themsleves from the responsibility of changing things. The Iraq war had nothing to do with oil, just as Afghanistan had nothing to do with it.
14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - http://www.philipweiss... · 2 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - http://www.philipweiss... · 1 reply · +1 points
Escobar has zero understanding of Iranian politics. On most days he just picks up whatever he reads on Juan Cole's blog and passes it off as original analysis. At one point he even declared my city, Peshawar, under Taliban control. Obviously, it came as news to all of us.
14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - http://www.philipweiss... · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - Breakfast in Gaza with... · 0 replies · +2 points
Anything else I could do for you? I do like taking my orders from the literacy impaired.
14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - Breakfast in Gaza with... · 2 replies · +2 points
14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - Breakfast in Gaza with... · 0 replies · +2 points
Her reporting was pathetic, and there was no 'other narrative' in the story. She was assigned the role of a native informer, and she played it to the hilt. I usually find very little that I can agree on with As'ad AbuKhalil, but all the ridicule he heaped on her "journalism" was in my view well-deserved.
14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - You can now follow Mon... · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - Edinburgh Film Festiva... · 0 replies · +1 points
"Ginnie Atkinson, Managing Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has confirmed that EIFF will not be taking Israeli Embassy money to help fund the 2009 film festival. Atkinson was unwilling to admit EIFF was influenced by Scottish PSC, or by the protest emails the EIFF has received since Tuesday, and said that the decision was “a natural conclusion to having realised that we had made a mistake in the first place”. Their decision follows the Scottish PSC call earlier today for a protest outside the Filmhouse in Edinburgh where the EIFF is based. Mention of the Israeli Embassy on the EIFF’s ‘Honour Board’ was removed after Atkinson and the EIFF admitted that “it was a mistake to accept the £300 from the Israeli Embassy”."
14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - Edinburgh Film Festiva... · 0 replies · +1 points