Einiges... Westergaard, Venezuela, Nordkorea, Castro und der Iran

FAZ - Gespräch mit dem Karikaturisten Kurt Westergaard: Wer erfindet einen „Islam light“?

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Foreign Policy - Venezuela self-imposes Mad Men sanctions

The irony, of course, is that Venezuela is doing to itself what the United States has been trying to do to North Korea for years (and re-emphasized in the past few months) -- denying access to luxury goods for the elites.

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NordkoreaInfo - Die perfekte Schlammkugel: Bloomberg wirft Rupert Murdoch Nordkorea an den Kopf!

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Auch Fidel gefällt Mahmuds Antisemitismus und Apokalypsophilie nicht:

The Atlantic - Jeffrey Goldberg: Fidel to Ahmadinejad: 'Stop Slandering the Jews'

Castro's message to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, was not so abstract, however. Over the course of this first, five-hour discussion, Castro repeatedly returned to his excoriation of anti-Semitism. He criticized Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust and explained why the Iranian government would better serve the cause of peace by acknowledging the "unique" history of anti-Semitism and trying to understand why Israelis fear for their existence.