August 2011 archive

Aug 31 2011

A moral pollution that follows

Fear of Islam: a study

By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, Aug 30, 2011 11:13 AM … The Center for American Progress has just released an extensive report, Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America, detailing the “funders, organizations,…  [more]

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Aug 31 2011

U.S. officials denied at the time…

WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says

By Matthew Schofield | McClatchy Newspapers, Wednesday, August 31, 2011 … A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi…  [more]

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Aug 31 2011

Taking advantage of the Holocaust

Polish-Jewish sociologist compares West Bank separation fence to Warsaw Ghetto walls

By Roman Frister, 01:05 01.09.11 … Sygmunt Bauman, the Jewish sociologist and one of the greatest philosophers of our time, castigated Israel harshly this week, saying it did not…  [more]

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Aug 31 2011

It hates the federal

The Tea Party has a point about religion and the founding fathers

By , Wednesday 31 August 2011 12.30 BST … There’s a presidential election coming up and, what do you know, the religious right is going to…  [more]

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Aug 31 2011

Paraprosdokians

A bit of levity from my friend Sharifah… … A paraprosdokian (plural paraprosdokians), from the Ancient Greek παρά (para, “against”) + προσδοκία (prosdokia, “expectation”), is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or…  [more]

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Aug 30 2011

Rule of the pouvoir

Algeria sends the West a message by taking in Gaddafi’s brood

By Robert Fisk, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 … When the Emir of Qatar flew to see President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria early this summer, he had one message to…  [more]

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Aug 30 2011

Willfully blind

Dick Cheney: organ grinder to George Bush’s monkey

By , Tuesday 30 August 2011 18.30 BST … On 31 March 1981, then Secretary of State Alexander Haig sat down in the White House situation room after the assassination…  [more]

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