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Rick Santorum’s Plans For America
Posted on13. Feb, 2012 by Lawrence Davidson.
An Analysis By Lawrence Davidson Former Pennsylvania Senator, Rick Santorum, is a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who is fast coming to the fore. He won the Republican primary in Iowa (albeit by only 34 votes) in early January and in February won the primaries in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota. So, as the [...]
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Two Front International Struggle For Palestine
Posted on05. Feb, 2012 by Lawrence Davidson.
An Analysis By Lawrence Davidson Part I – Two Fronts In January 2011, I wrote an analysis in support of a one-state solution to the on-going Israeli-Palestinian struggle. It is the Israelis themselves who have made the one-state solution the only practicable approach, because their incessant and illegal colonization of the West Bank has simply [...]
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Democracy in the Middle East: Why the Islamists Win
Posted on29. Jan, 2012 by Lawrence Davidson.
An Analysis By Lawrence Davidson Part I – Two Democratic Elections There have now been two democratic elections in the Middle East as a consequence of the Arab Spring. One was in Tunisia in October 2011, and the recent staggered elections of December 2011-January 2012 for a lower house of parliament in Egypt. In both [...]
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The Divergent Faces of Israel
Posted on17. Jan, 2012 by Lawrence Davidson.
An Analyses By Lawrence Davidson Part I – Zionist Reality Last month Amira Hass, one of Israel’s best, bravest and most disliked journalists wrote a short piece in Haaretz entitled "When ‘fascist’ is not a rude word." Here she tells us that "in fascist regimes the state is above all" and then notes [...]
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Victimizing Iran
Posted on07. Jan, 2012 by Lawrence Davidson.
An Analysis By Lawrence Davidson Part I – Flawed Systems Winston Churchill once said that "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried from time to time." He was right. [...]
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An “Historic Partnership” With The Devil
Posted on31. Dec, 2011 by Lawrence Davidson.
An "Historic Partnership" With The Devil An Analysis by Lawrence Davidson Part I – New York City The announcement came from the mayor’s office of New York City (NYC) on 19 December 2011 in the form of an eleven page declaration. It begins "Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Cornell University President David J. Skorton, and Technion-Israel [...]
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The Homeland Battlefield
Posted on23. Dec, 2011 by Lawrence Davidson.
An Analysis By Lawrence Davidson Part I – Congress Attacks the Constitution The U.S. Congress has ended the year 2011 by assaulting the Constitution. The attack came in the form of the 2012 National Defense Appropriations Act (NDAA) which passed both the House (December 14) and the Senate (December 15) by large margins despite [...]
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The Jews Go To War With Themselves
Posted on17. Dec, 2011 by Lawrence Davidson.
An Analysis By Prof Lawrence Davidson Part I On 12 December 2011 hundreds of Israeli settler fanatics besieged a West Bank IDF army base. They destroyed equipment, set fires, and even stoned the base soldiers. This was the second such attack in a month. The cause? Anger over the army’s dismantlement of a small number [...]
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So What Shall We Ruin in November 2012
Posted on10. Dec, 2011 by Lawrence Davidson.
An Analysis By Prof Lawrence Davidson I) The Circus There has been a steady drumbeat of criticism leveled against the contenders for the Republican presidential nomination. As they have gone around the country holding their debates they have distinguished themselves as shallow, ignorant, hypocritical and mendacious. At these debates, the only ones who show themselves [...]
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The Whistle Blower As Hero
Posted on03. Dec, 2011 by Lawrence Davidson.
An Analysis By Lawrence Davidson Part I – Robin Hood of the Information Age Julian Assange, who might be the man most hated by the U.S. government, was given Australia’s Walkley Foundation Award for outstanding journalism last week. He accepted it from a distance, using Skype, because he is under house arrest in England pending [...]