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Jun 19 2011

What the press does not see

Face the facts – Syria is an apartheid state

By Nick Cohen, Sunday 19 June 2011 … For a tyrant whose forces took 13-year-old Hamza Ali al-Khateeb, burned him, mutilated him, shattered his knee caps, cut off his penis…  [more]

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Jun 17 2011

Individualism amid barbarism

We can’t tell the victims to leave mass graves in peace

By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 18 June 2011 … The Syrians say they discovered a mass grave this week containing the bodies of murdered soldiers outside a town called Jisr…  [more]

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Jun 17 2011

Messianic mysticism & blind pseudo-heroism

Netanyahu and the Mystics of Safed

By Carlo Strenger, 15:38 17.06.11 … Future historians looking back at Israel in 2011 will shake their heads with disbelief. They will note that there were voices of reason who called for constructive…  [more]

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Jun 17 2011

Xenophobic panic

“Conservatism Is True.”

By Andrew Sullivan, 16 Jun 2011 09:57 PM … It’s funny that Fareed Zakaria and I are now seen as beyond the conservative pale. We were both Harvard immigrants at the same time and definitely right of…  [more]

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Jun 17 2011

I like surprises

Note:  The following video is posted in the spirit of what Aristotle called the ability “to entertain a thought without accepting it.”  Kudos to Richard Hanna for the quotation from an old Greek guy who was even more opinionated than…  [more]

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Jun 17 2011

A threat or a promise?

Eisenhower’s worst fears came true. We invent enemies to buy the bombs

By Simon Jenkins, Thursday 16 June 2011 21.00 BST … Why do we still go to war? We seem unable to stop. We find any excuse for…  [more]

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Jun 16 2011

Here to plunder

Michele Bachmann Isn’t Stupid, She’s Dangerous

By Sarah Jones, June 16, 2011 … Michelle Goldberg appeared on MSNBC’s The Last Word detailing the origins of Michele Bachmann’s far right evangelical politics as outlined in her Daily Beast article yesterday.…  [more]

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