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Mar 25 2012

An overwhelming consensus

The False Debate About Attacking Iran

By , March 24, 2012 … I wonder if we in the news media aren’t inadvertently leaving the impression that there is a genuine debate among experts about whether an Israeli…  [more]

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Mar 24 2012

Vicious and exclusionary rhetoric

The War On Religion Does Not Exist

By , 03/23/2012  6:40 pm … Apparently, attempts are underway to open a new front in the supposed “war on religion” in my home state of Louisiana as…  [more]

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Mar 24 2012

So sensationally unfunny

War on Iran? It is too soon to reminisce about Iraq, let alone have a repeat

By , Friday 23 March 2012 16.30 EDT … The thing about a supertanker is that at least you can turn it…  [more]

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Mar 23 2012

History is rarely gentle

Syria’s refugees remind us of the price of revolution

By , Friday 23 March 2012 07.12 EDT … Here is the truth about revolution, war, dictatorship and resistance. It is a simple truth and it is crushing: people…  [more]

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Mar 23 2012

The enduring resilience of denial

‘Belambai’ is Afghanistan’s ‘My Lai’

By Paul Rosenberg, 21 Mar 2012 13:07 … He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss …  [more]

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Mar 21 2012

A baseline for morality

Madness is not the reason for this massacre

By Robert Fisk, Saturday 17 March 2012 … I’m getting a bit tired of the “deranged” soldier story. It was predictable, of course. The 38-year-old staff sergeant who massacred 16 Afghan civilians,…  [more]

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Mar 20 2012

Whether we like it or not

Did Jesus Exist?

By , 03/20/2012  7:25 am … In a society in which people still claim the Holocaust did not happen, and in which there are resounding claims that the American president is, in fact, a…  [more]

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