January 2012 archive

Bought and paid for

Newt Gingrich’s agenda-setting big donor

By , Saturday 28 January 2012 14.18 ES By donating $10m to the pro-Newt Gingrich Super Pac campaign, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, one of the richest men in the US, and…  [more]

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Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad

Canadian teenagers send Lego man into space

By Shiv Malik, Thursday 26 January 2012 11.17 EST [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQwLmGR6bPA[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQwLmGR6bPA Two Canadian teenagers have sent a Lego man into the outer reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere using a home-stitched parachute…  [more]

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Something faintly fascist

The present stands no chance against the past

By Robert Fisk, Saturday 28 January 2012 The Palestinians are not only, it seems, an “invented people” – courtesy of Newt Gingrich – but the only Arabs on the Mediterranean…  [more]

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A bauble of thanks

When a refusal is more noble than an honour

By Terence Blacker, Friday 27 January 2012 Now and then, it is possible to catch a glimpse of how the British establishment works. These moments are rare and fleeting…  [more]

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Dangerous transition

The Arab Spring, US foreign policy, the Status-Quo Lobby and the Dream Palace of the Zionists

By Issandr El Amrani, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 I’d like to touch upon America and Egypt, because I’ve seen a lot of…  [more]

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Hatred and division among us

Why We Must Learn America’s Islamic History

By , 01/25/2012 11:00 am “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue…”  So we were taught in primary school. But, did you know that the captains of two of the…  [more]

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Imminent threat of extinction

We’ve been here before – and it suits Israel that we never forget ‘Nuclear Iran’

By Robert Fisk, Wednesday 25 January 2012 Turning round a story is one of the most difficult tasks in journalism – and rarely more…  [more]

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