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A Better Reason To Mark Memorial Day

By mike flugennockTuesday - June 1st, 2010Categories: Middle East, Palestine

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It was a boisterous and irate crowd that gathered yesterday outside the Israeli Embassy to protest the murder, kidnapping and piracy committed in international waters by the Israeli State against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla humanitarian aid ships destined to defy the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Along with large amounts of food, water and building materials, the ships carried a number of former European legislators, an 86 year-old Holocaust survivor and a Nobel Laureate — that is, a real Nobel Laureate — as opposed to Barack Obama, who might as well have gotten his Nobel Peace Prize out of a goddamn’ Cracker Jack box.

Also present were two — count ’em, two — members of Code Pink. Still, this was all that was necessary to attempt to inflict damage on the event through their now-patented “demojacking” technique perfected by Code Pink at a pro-Palestinian protest in January of last year. Happily for all of us, though, Code Pink’s attempt to ruin the event amounted to a big ol’ bucket of FAIL as less than ten protesters decided to take them up on a pointless, straggling little march to the White House.

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Nerobama

By mike flugennockThursday - January 15th, 2009Categories: elections, Middle East, Obamarama, Palestine, war and peace

So, I’m on the street shooting these demos where people are demanding that Emperor-Elect Timberlake “say something” about the Israeli rape of Gaza, as if with enough pressure – if you call sign-waving and delivering white roses “pressure” – he’ll suddenly have a Eureka Moment and go on TV and “do the right thing”.

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Now, I often like to joke around with my friends about how most Americans’ long-term memories don’t go back past the last episode of “Desperate Housewives”, but lately it seems to be the dead-assed truth, and that includes The Movement™. Anyone who thinks that Obama actually has substantially different ideas about the situation that he’s just waiting to express until he’s officially El Presidente has obviously already forgotten his notorious wet, sloppy blowjob of a speech he delivered to last year’s AIPAC Convention shortly after becoming the presumptive (spit) Donkeycratic Party nominee for Maximum Leader.

So, everybody, just knock it off about getting Barack Obombirana to “speak up” about the slaughter of Gaza. The guy’s already said everything he needed to say about Gaza in that lickspittle AIPAC speech. Check it, gang…

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Poor Man’s F-16

By mike flugennockThursday - July 27th, 2006Categories: liberty, media, Middle East, Palestine, war and peace, War on Terror

So, a few mornings ago, I emerged from my REM fog to NBC video of Palestinian and Lebanese villages being crushed by tanks and missiles and F-16s and the sound of Matt Lauer yammering about Israel’s “right to defend itself”.

Who knows, maybe it was just the hour of the morning, or perhaps I was really and truly revulsed by Israel claiming a right to “defend itself” — by using tanks, missiles, and F-16s against already beaten-down, occupied territories in a country that’s got no imperialist power backing them up, got no tanks, got no Patriot missiles, got no F-16s, got no nukes — not to mention having no food, no water, no medicine, no services…

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“Birth Pangs of a New Middle East”

By mike flugennockTuesday - July 25th, 2006Categories: Bushit, Middle East, Palestine, right wingnuts, war and peace

Is it just me, or did Secretary Of Snake Condolee-ee-ee-eezza Rice make one of her weirdest statements ever last weekend — even weirder than that NBC “Today” interview where she said “freedom is on the march” about half a dozen times? Oh, and I love the part where she says that “We’re going through a very violent time.” “WE”? What do you mean “we”, white woman?

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All in all, though, quite a bout of birth pangs, there; shame it couldn’t have been a more quiet, serene and peaceful birthing experience, like Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise’s baby.

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