April 2011 archive
Apr 30 2011
Southern weed
It’s official. We know now that there is nothing that will ever appease the nutters who desperately hate our President. Frenzied conspiracy theories have always thrived in the fertile imaginations of America’s fringy shadowlands, those dark, squishy places just beyond… [more]
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Apr 30 2011
Eyes of a birther
Obama’s Birth Certificate Through The Eyes Of A Birther (PICTURE)
By Ross Luippold, 04-27-11 05:08 PM The White House released President Obama’s long form birth certificate to much fanfare, claiming that the media’s attention on people like Donald Trump who… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/04/30/eyes-of-a-birther/
Apr 28 2011
While the poor shrivel…
Donald Trump’s lunacy reveals core truth about the Republicans
By Johan Hari, Friday, 29 April 2011 … Since the election of Barack Obama, the Republican Party has proved that one of its central intellectual arguments was right all along. It… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/04/28/while-the-poor-shrivel/
Apr 27 2011
A burned-out wreck
Donald Trump and the Republican nightmare of 2012
By Richard Adams, April 26, 2011 … Is Donald Trump a double agent working on behalf of the Democratic party? Because that would at least explain why Trump is doing his utmost… [more]
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Apr 26 2011
Long way to go
Coffee Shop Religion: Interfaith of the Everyday
By Saumya Arya Haas, 04/25/11 09:45 PM ET … I never learned much about religion until I started hanging out at Muddy Waters Coffee Shop on the corner of Lyndale and 24th… [more]
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Apr 26 2011
The chessboard is global
The African ‘Star Wars’
By Pepe Escobar, 26 Apr 2011 13:54 … From energy wars to water wars, the 21st century will be determined by a fierce battle for the world’s remaining natural resources. The chessboard is global. The… [more]Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2011/04/26/the-chessboard-is-global/
Apr 25 2011
The only humane response
Guantánamo piled lie upon lie through the momentum of its own existence
By Julian Glover, Monday 25 April 2011 … Let them read the documents. Let them try to tell us after that (as some still do, even now)… [more]
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