Author Archives: Muller

The World is Charlie

The impressive gathering of more than a million in Paris today in solidarity of the 17 victims of further two futile terror attacks by some Muslim losers on freedom of expression leaves in particular Muslim hardliners in Saudi Arabia, main … Continue reading

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Joan Peters RIP

Update below. Just when writing the previous post, the author of From Time Immemorial of 1984, Joan Peters (or what was her later name, Joan Caro) passed away at the age of 78. The book tried to entertain two popular … Continue reading

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The Making of Norman Finkelstein

A couple of years ago, I have seen American Radical with much sympathy for Norman Finkelstein. It was after I had followed in full the fateful “debate” with Alan Dershowitz at “DemocracyNow!” about the latter’s apologetic trash “The Case for Israel” which is … Continue reading

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Revisionist Rewriting of 9th Century Arabic Enlightenment

The self-proclamation of a terrorist organization as new “Islamic State” and “caliphate” led by an individual who has changed his name to al-Baghdadi has not been met with general enthusiasm or sympathy in the Islamic world, not even in Salafi … Continue reading

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Dianne Feinstein

Kudos to Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairperson of the U.S. Senate Select Committee of Intelligence, which has released 525 heavily redacted pages [pdf] of the original CIA torture report. I suppose that Feinstein has not read all 6200 pages. I have instantly stopped … Continue reading

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