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Barack Obama owes jimmy carter an apology

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By Ralph Nader

Now that the season of electoral expediency is over, Barack Obama owes Jimmy Carter an apology.

At the Democratic National Convention in Denver, the Party denied Jimmy Carter the traditional invitation to speak that is accorded its former presidents.

According to The Jewish Daily Forward, “Carter’s controversial views on Israel cost him a place on the podium at the Democratic Party convention in late August, senior Democratic operatives acknowledged to the Forward.”

Silencing Carter, who negotiated the Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement, involved behind the scenes tensions between supporters of the hard-line AIPAC lobby and those Democrats who argued both respect and free speech to let Carter join Bill Clinton on the stage and address a nationwide audience.

 

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New anti semitism and moral casualties of Gaza war

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New anti-Semitism and moral casualties of Gaza war
By Prof. Ali A. Mazrui

Who were the losers in the Gaza war prior to the changing of the guards in Washington and Israel? The most tragic casualties were of course the people of Gaza who were killed in their hundreds.

The next losers were the majority of Israelis who supported one of the most inhumane conflicts even by the Middle East standards.

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From guantã¡namo to the south pacific is this a joke?

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From Guantánamo To The South Pacific: Is This A Joke?
 
by Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington is a journalist and historian, based in London. He is the author of The Guantánamo Files, the first book to tell the stories of all the detainees in America’s illegal prison. For more information, visit his blog here: http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/
 

 
Let’s face it, when it comes to Guantánamo, there’s little to laugh about, unless you’re an Islamophobic sadist – in which case, there’s still nothing for the rest of us to laugh about.
 
The Associated Press reports that, in a desperate effort to rid itself of the toxic human debris of Guantánamo, the Obama administration is eyeing up the tiny Republic of Palau, an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 miles (800 km) east of the Philippines, to dispose of some, or all of the 17 Uighurs in Guantánamo.
 
The Uighurs are Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province, who were swept up in the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, and sold to US forces by Pakistani villagers after fleeing from a run-down hamlet in which they had sought solace from their Chinese oppressors, or, in many cases, because they had found themselves unable to make their way to Turkey or Europe, to look for work, as they had originally intended.
 

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