2012 archive

So long, Doc!

Folk musician Doc Watson dies in NC hospital at 89

May 29, 2012, 6:57 PM EST Doc Watson, the Grammy-award winning  folk musician whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists  around the world for more than a half-century,…  [more]

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Loretta Lynn’s birth certificate

Back to the birth certificate

Dear editor: Con-tra-dic-tion: A denial of the truth. The Associated Press published a picture of Loretta Lynn’s birth certificate, which supposedly proves she is actually three years older than she claims to be. Wow!…  [more]

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Talk about shared values

Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal

By Yousef Munayyer, May 23, 2012 I’m a Palestinian who was born in the Israeli town of Lod, and thus I am an Israeli citizen. My wife is not; she is a…  [more]

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An ideology of ethno-racial chauvinism

On “Israel’s Right to Exist”

By Sheldon Richman, Monday, May 21st, 2012 When I posted Sharmine Narwani’s provocative article “Excuse Me, But Israel Has No Right to Exist” on Facebook, I got an inappropriate reaction from libertarians. It…  [more]

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If only

US war veterans tossing medals back at Nato was a heroic act

By , Monday 21 May 2012 04.35 EDT “No amount of medals, ribbons, or flags can cover the amount of human suffering caused by this…  [more]

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Hell is truth seen too late

A Victory for All of Us

By Chris Hedges, May 18, 2012 In January, attorneys Carl Mayer and Bruce Afran asked me to be the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Leon…  [more]

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/05/20/hell-truth-seen-late/

Last remnants of modern-day colonialism

Excuse Me, But Israel Has No Right To Exist

By Sharmine Narwani, Thu, 2012-05-17 21:46 The phrase “right to exist” entered my consciousness in the 1990s just as the concept of the two-state solution became part of our collective…  [more]

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