Anti-fascism / Fascism

excerpts from John Roy Carlson's 1951 work, Cairo to Damascus (link to in-print paperback). All posts in the series will be collected on this page.]

Still in Damascus: pp. 395-396

ONLY kismet could have led me to a tiny restaurant-tavern on the bank of the Barada River. The place was native, but the customers were largely non-Arab...Here I struck a friendship with Stefan Meyer, which opened strange new vistas for me.

ANN Louise Bardach, the U.S. reporter famous for her interviews with Luis Posada Carriles and her investigations into Cuban-American terrorism, has written an extensive article for the website http://www.slate.com on the close ties between Republican presidential candidate John McCain and notorious terrorists in Miami...

RAMALLAH, West Bank: The U.S. has transferred $150 million to the Palestinians, exceeding its original pledge of aid to the moderate Palestinian government in the West Bank.U.S. consul General Jake Walles says Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad asked for the additional assistance last month to help with the Palestinian budget.A statement from the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem says American aid to the Palestinians in 2008 now totals over $700 million and exceeds the amount the U.S.

SENATOR OBAMA PLEASE LET THIS COUNTRIES VOTERS KNOW YOUR FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS ABOUT A NEEDED FUTURE REPAIR AND RENOVATION OF OUR BROKEN JUDICIAL SYSTEM THAT CONTINUES TO ALLOW THE EXECUTION'S OF EVEN POSSIBLE INNOCENT AMERICAN’S LIKE TROY DAVIS OF GEORGIA ?????

Iraq Veterans Against the War brutalized by cops at last night's presidential debate. Rochester activist trampled by police, taken to hospital, and released with a sprained ankle. More to come.

The President of the United States, George Bush, enters today his last 100 days in power overshadowed by very high unpopularity rates and one of the worst economic crises in recent decades.

SENATOR OBAMA PLEASE LET THE AMERICAN VOTERS KNOW YOUR FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS ABOUT AMERICA’S FUTURE REPAIR AND RENOVATION OF A BROKEN JUDICIAL SYSTEM THAT CONTINUES TO ALLOW THE EXECUTION OF EVEN POSSIBLE INNOCENT AMERICAN’S LIKE TROY DAVIS OF GEORGIA ?????

SENATOR OBAMA,DOES GOD NEED TO LOBBY OUR US CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD ON BEHALF OF OUR POORER AMERICAN’S,OR ARE YOU WATCHING OUT FOR THEM ??

Scorpionic cancer is one of the evils that IMCs support by removing this article, but they are too stupid to know it! Understand that when they delete or hide this article, they enable Bush Nazis to track anyone trying to access it here or elsewhere.

Pirates Die Strangely After Hijacking Iranian Ship

A disturbing report in a South African newspaper: The Times - Pirates die strangely after taking Iranian ship.

A tense standoff has developed in waters off Somalia over an Iranian merchant ship laden with a mysterious cargo that was hijacked by pirates.

Somali pirates suffered skin burns, lost hair and fell gravely ill “within days” of boarding the MV Iran Deyanat.