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From the Independent:
- Russia Warns Chemical Weapons May Come From Rebels, Not Assad
From Gateway Pundit: A child walks between dusty tents in a refugee camp set up in Iraq. The U.N. says the number of children fleeing Syria has now reached one million.Why does Obama support terrorists?What a mess in Syria – Russia says the gas that...
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Hitler, The Mufti Of Jerusalem And Modern Islamo Nazism Second in installment: Radical Islamic Jihad and pan-Arabism in its violent form find a common root in Amin Al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He is the vector of European fascism into...
- The Deconstruction Of The Jewish People: New Book Claims Jewish People And Jewish History Are An "invention"
The book is written by a Jewish man named Schlomo Sand. From the New York Times (this is freaking sick): Despite the fragmented and incomplete historical record, experts pretty much agree that some popular beliefs about Jewish history simply don’t hold...
- Dance Macabre
"Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the Syrian military on Monday to raise its readiness, pledging not to abandon support for Lebanese resistance against Israel". With this development, the movement takes a step closer to its crescendo. Some have...
- The Serpent's Egg?
Wretchard questions the wisdom of the Serpent's Egg argument for entering into war: A reader sends a video link to a Scott Ritter interview on Iranian uranium enrichment capability. Technically speaking Ritter is probably right in saying that Iran...
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"Is It 1914 All Over Again?"
From the Independent:
Is it 1914 all over again? We are in danger of repeating the mistakes that started WWI, says a leading historianRead it all HERE.
The Great War was sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the Balkans. The Middle East could be viewed as the modern-day equivalent, argues Professor Margaret MacMillan
History never repeats itself, but it sure does rhyme, it has been said. Now an internationally respected historian is warning that today's world bears a number of striking similarities with the build-up to the First World War.
The newly mechanised armies of the early 20th century produced unprecedented slaughter on the battlefields of the "war to end all wars" after a spark lit in the Balkans with the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Professor Margaret MacMillan, of the University of Cambridge, argues that the Middle East could be viewed as the modern-day equivalent of this turbulent region. A nuclear arms race that would be likely to start if Iran developed a bomb "would make for a very dangerous world indeed, which could lead to a recreation of the kind of tinderbox that exploded in the Balkans 100 years ago – only this time with mushroom clouds," she writes in an essay for the Brookings Institution, a leading US think-tank.
"While history does not repeat itself precisely, the Middle East today bears a worrying resemblance to the Balkans then," she says. "A similar mix of toxic nationalisms threatens to draw in outside powers as the US, Turkey, Russia, and Iran look to protect their interests and clients."
Professor MacMillan highlights a string of other parallels between today and a century ago. Modern-day Islamist terrorists mirror the revolutionary communists and anarchists who carried out a string of assassinations in the name of a philosophy that sanctioned murder to achieve their vision of a better world. And in 1914, Germany was a rising force that sought to challenge the pre-eminent power of the time, the UK. Today, the growing power of China is perceived as a threat by some in the US.
Transitions from one world power to another are always seen as dangerous times....
- Russia Warns Chemical Weapons May Come From Rebels, Not Assad
From Gateway Pundit: A child walks between dusty tents in a refugee camp set up in Iraq. The U.N. says the number of children fleeing Syria has now reached one million.Why does Obama support terrorists?What a mess in Syria – Russia says the gas that...
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Hitler, The Mufti Of Jerusalem And Modern Islamo Nazism Second in installment: Radical Islamic Jihad and pan-Arabism in its violent form find a common root in Amin Al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He is the vector of European fascism into...
- The Deconstruction Of The Jewish People: New Book Claims Jewish People And Jewish History Are An "invention"
The book is written by a Jewish man named Schlomo Sand. From the New York Times (this is freaking sick): Despite the fragmented and incomplete historical record, experts pretty much agree that some popular beliefs about Jewish history simply don’t hold...
- Dance Macabre
"Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the Syrian military on Monday to raise its readiness, pledging not to abandon support for Lebanese resistance against Israel". With this development, the movement takes a step closer to its crescendo. Some have...
- The Serpent's Egg?
Wretchard questions the wisdom of the Serpent's Egg argument for entering into war: A reader sends a video link to a Scott Ritter interview on Iranian uranium enrichment capability. Technically speaking Ritter is probably right in saying that Iran...