“If despair among Palestinians was enough to create psychopathic criminal behavior, there’s been enough despair for a long time, and enough misery to go around. It is to excuse the vicious, filthy forces of Islamic jihad to offer any other explanation but that it is their own evil preaching, their own vile religion, […]
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December 17th, 2011 | Tags: Chris Hedges, Christopher Hitchens, jihad, Jimmy Carter | Category: Books/media, California, Islam, journalism, Marxism, Palestinians, Progressives, Quotations | Comments are closed
“Stellar fire was your womb, and stellar fire will be your grave: a just course for one who has always blazed so very brightly.” ~author Martin Amis, a Hitchens friend since their days at Oxford Hitchens at a work camp for young revolutionaries in Cuba, 1968. Only a few […] December 16th, 2011 | Tags: 9/11/2001, Christopher Hitchens, David Horowitz, Dennis Miller, England, George H.W. Bush, Martin Amis, obituary, President George W. Bush | Category: Books/media, Great Britain, Islam, Politics, terrorism | Comments are closed
Tim Mak Politico 10/12/2011 The human rights group Amnesty International called on Canadian authorities Wednesday to arrest former President George W. Bush when he attends an economic summit in the province of British Columbia next week. The group accused Bush of “responsibility for crimes under international law including torture.” Amnesty International asked that Canada either […] October 12th, 2011 | Tags: Amnesty International, Christopher Hitchens, Fidel Castro, George W. Bush, Gnassingbé Eyadema, international law, Salman Rushdie, war crimes | Category: Canada, Cuba, Human Rights | Comments are closed
Over the past decade Hitchens has taken a combative stance on world events. He reflects on these writings. Christopher Hitchens Guardian [UK] 9 September 2011 Three men: Mohamed Bouazizi, Abu-Abdel Monaam Hamedeh, and Ali Mehdi Zeu – a Tunisian street vendor, an Egyptian restaurateur and a Libyan husband and father. In the spring of 2011, […] September 10th, 2011 | Tags: 'Arab Spring', 9/11/01, Christopher Hitchens, Egypt, Libya, martyrs, Shariah Law, suicides, Tunisia | Category: Books/media, Islam, Middle East, religion, terrorism, United States | Comments are closed
Glenn Reynolds Instapundit 6/8/2011 CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: From Abbottabad To Worse. “There’s absolutely no mystery to the ‘Why do they hate us?’ question, at least as it arises in Pakistan. They hate us because they owe us, and are dependent upon us. The two main symbols of Pakistan’s pride—its army and its nuclear program—are wholly parasitic […] June 8th, 2011 | Tags: Abbottabad, Benazir Bhutto, Christopher Hitchens, General Ashfaq Kayani, hypocrisy, Osama bin Laden, patronage, President Asif Ali Zardari, sovereignty, Taliban | Category: Afghanistan, Central Intelligence Agency, Entitlements, Foreign Policy, India, Pakistan, United States | Comments are closed
Can Evangelical Doctor Help Save Life of Top Atheist Writer Christopher Hitches? Emily Esfahani Smith The Blaze 3/26/2011 Christopher Hitchens, the atheist writer dying of esophageal cancer, has turned to an unlikely source as he tries to beat back death: evangelical doctor Francis Collins, the former director of the National Human Genome Project. In that […] March 27th, 2011 | Tags: cancer treatment, Christopher Hitchens, DNA, Francis Collins, National Human Genome Project | Category: Books/media, Medicine, religion, Science/Research/Technology | Comments are closed
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