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Hitler and Stalin Had no TV or Internet
Contributed by : Carol Gould The Westminster Media Forum Policy Seminar: Ethnicity and the Media: January 31, 2007Report and Comment by Carol ...
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This Heartless British Government
Contributed by : Carol Gould I have it up to the eye teeth with Jewish and Zionist friends and correspondents writing in hysterical tones to me ...
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Is the British Jewish Community in Danger
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonI am ashamed I ever called myself a 'conservative' commentator. When is the Tory government going to stop obsessing on benefit claimants and start creating the 'New Society?' Franklin Delano Roosevelt did exactly the opposite: he created tens of thousands of jobs through TVA, NRA and WPA and never, ever made people on benefit feel they ...
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A Young Man So Full of Hate
Contributed by : Carol Gould London Whether or not the effects of the BP explosion and subsequent environmental disaster were overblown (the British media are saying it was) it is to me of importance to register the level of America-hatred that spewed forth at the height of the crisis. What is also astonishing is the lack of sympathy the British media have for the still-scarred folks who ...
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Did America Destroy the British Empire
Contributed by : Carol Gould In October 2008 the BBC became embroiled in a controversy over the live broadcast of lewd phonecalls made by Russell Brand ( he who so enraged American audiences when he hosted an LA awards show) and Jonathan Ross to the actor Andrew sachs. In the course of the broadcast Brand boasted of a sexual encounter with the actor's granddaughter.The British ...
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Claire Foxs Schools Conference on the War on Terror
Contributed by : Carol Gould In the wake of risng anti-Americanism because of the BP crisis and the desire of American senators to interview Scottish officials about the release of Lockerbie terrorist Abdelbaset ali al Megrahi, here are some thoughts from last Christmas.LondonOn Christmas Day I spent lunch and tea listening to a long discourse about the demise of the British Empire. For ...
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Simon Schama and the Dark Side of America
Contributed by : Carol Gould Image: Chef Gary Rhodes and a member of the public*******************My enduring memory of ...
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If home for the UK Olympics team is a military base whither the Americans
http://www.pajamasmedia.com .London May 31, 2010Not a week goes by in Great Britain that there ...
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Carol Gould on Yvonne Ridleys The Agenda
Contributed by : Carol Gould London As September came to a close Lord Heseltine, the man who held high office under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, appeared on the popular BBC primetime television program Question Time and promptly made a pronouncement that floored me.The show had been focusing on ...
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The Fellowship of Life Support
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonSeptember marks the seventieth anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. Throughout the month there are commemorations connected with the momentous events that marked the beginning of a war that eventually saw fifty million souls lose their lives. On September 20, just under the window where I sit writing this piece, a Spitfire flew over central London ...
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This month decided the fate of Humanity
Contributed by : Carol Gould This is a Seminal Moment in the History of an ancient Civilizationby Carol GouldJune 24th, 2009I cannot help thinking of how much my late mother, a lifetime political activist, would have been glued to her television watching the momentous events in Iran unfolding as June, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein song ...
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A Dozen Terror Suspects Go Free
LondonDuring the past month the British Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has been embroiled in a scandal involving the purchase by her husband of pornographic films; the media have grabbed onto this story with glee because it is an engaging distraction from the horrendous credit crisis and other world calamities. Because the films were acquired on an expense account she promised to repay Her ...
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An Important Conference in London
Contributed by : Carol Gould 8th March 2009LondonI nearly fell of my chair as the Jewish Sabbath came in on Friday 6th March, having just read my esteemed colleague Michael ...
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In Defence of American Jewry
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonOn March 11th, the fifth anniversary of the Muslim terror attacks on Madrid I found in my Inbox an excited email from a Palestinian group urging Americans to wake up -- ...
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Manners Died a Long time Ago
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonDuring the recent Gaza conflict and in its aftermath it has been open season on Israel across the globe. From a synagogue in Caracas to a Jewish member of my local community in London being set upon by anti-Semitic thugs, there has been a wave of anti-Jewish sentiment that goes beyond criticism of ...
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Is Caryl Churchill anti-Semitic
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonOn 21 February 130 delegates from 40 countries took part in a British government-backed conference of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism (ICCA ). On 22 February this coalition, also known as the London Conference on anti-Semitism, convened by a group whose majority was non-Jewish, issued a statement acknowledging that the scourge ...
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My Iranian Television Debut
Contributed by : Carol Gould London 5 January 2009I attended the Hate Israel Rally held in ...
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Londons Mayor on American Racism
Contributed by : Carol Gould 11 November 2008LondonEvery year I have commented on the lamentable lack of interest shown by Britain's immigrant population in the great traditions of this country.This year I feel I must broaden my complaint to the general population. In the weeks leading up to Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day I have noticed that I am the only person wearing a poppy ...
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Wear Your Poppy with Pride
Contributed by : Carol Gould London3 November 2008Those outside the United Kingdom will be blissfully unaware of a news story that knocked everything else off the front pages of British newspapers this week: two of the ...
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Three Men and their Fathers
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonFirst, let us get something clear: it is stated in Leviticus that sodomy is an abomination.Second, let us have clarity on the subject of women in the clergy: it just ...
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America Votes the Bobby Jindal Factor
Contributed by : Carol Gould D-Day 2008 : An American in London This article also appeared in New Media Journal USLondon5th June 2008This evening, as I began to prepare for bed, I looked at the calendar in my bathroom and realised it was the dawn of D-Day. I am an insomniac and the birds were already singing when I put my trash outside the front door for the Friday collection.Because I did ...
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Rooney American Rap and Britains Violent Streets
Contributed by : Carol Gould Those of us who were glued to the finals of the American primary election excitement last night will have noted that Republican nominee Senator John McCain, soon to select a running mate, was introduced by thirty-six-year-old Republican Piyush 'Bobby' Jindal, the first Asian-American governor of Louisiana. The energetic and charismatic Jindal, whose ...
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Channel Four and the Radical Imams
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonTonight we learn that Pat Regan, a brave and tireless housewife-turned-anti-gang campaigner in Leeds has been found murdered, apparently by her own grandchild. Her own grandchild!The United Kingdom is in a terrible and tragic crisis as more and more youngsters kill and maim one another with knives and guns. Gang violence is beginning to consume police ...
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Israels Birth According to Jeremy Bowen
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonThis past year United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice could easily have been mistaken for a Democrat. Her frequent and aggressive assignations in Israel have left observers convinced she is not interested in the support of the ...
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Liverpool Fans and Carol Gould Reply
Contributed by : Carol Gould London I nearly fell off my chair yesterday, sitting in my favourite ...
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Turkmenistan's new olympic development could be blessing or curse
Work has finally begun on the massive Ashgabat Olympic complex development, a US $5 billion project that aims to enhance the standing of the capital city when Turkmenistan makes a bid to host the Olympic Games.
The sports complex being built in Ashgabat will be the largest and most state-of-the-art of its kind in Central Asia, underscoring Turkmenistan’s position as a regional power due to the country’s extensive natural gas and oil reserves, while its completion will also illustrate the growing presence of the country in the international community. Read more
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