Category Archives: Middle East

On The Saudi Cross

April 2, 2021 – 10:19 am

In 2013 Saudi Arabia hit the headlines after a young Saudi prisoner announced that he had been sentenced to crucifixion for three days. The condemned man had been convicted of theft in 2009 and Sharia law in the southern province demanded capital punishment, even though main defendant, Sarhan al-Mashayeh, was 15 at the time of […]

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B52s Over The Gulf

May 13, 2019 – 7:25 pm

Something about Iran has pissed off America since the Tehran Embassy takeout of 1979 and Trump’s support group of CIA director Pompeo and NSC John ‘the Walrus’ Bolton have cheerled a confrontation of Persia to prove our resolve to Saudi Arabia’s Genocidal War on Justice. The mainstream media has been dedicated to selling the fear […]

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A Chink In The Wall

April 16, 2016 – 2:15 pm

The differences between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton were apparent on Thursday’s Democratic primary debate. Hillary was for a $12 minimum wage, she didn’t believe in breaking up the banks, and the former Secretary of State criticized Senator Sanders for promoting Universal Health Care, however between the two candidates the gap increased a chasm when […]

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Subvertizements of Apartheid

February 24, 2016 – 1:50 pm

According to electronicintifada.net activists from London Palestine Action plastered these posters criticizing Israel’s apartheid policies against Palestinians all over London’s underground train network early Sunday morning calling them “subvertisements,” political messages designed to look like sanctioned advertising. Next week It’s Israeli Apartheid Week in the UK. Israel has spend billions demonizing the Palestinians as terrorists, […]

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Poetry Police

February 28, 2015 – 6:50 pm

My hillbilly girlfriend in the 70s was funny. Ann was even funnier drunk. Her limit was two drinks after which she was transformed from an ingenue actress into a white trash beauty. I wasn’t sure which I liked better. One night at CBGBs she launched into a tirade about the poetry police coming to arrest […]

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