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Feb 01 2012

Intimately backed

Afghanistan: the big lie

Guardian editorial, Wednesday 1 February 2012 18.04 EST … Joseph Goebbels said that if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The big lie told repeatedly…  [more]

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Feb 01 2012

A movement I love and respect

What the Occupy movement must learn from Sundance

By , Tuesday 31 January 2012 13.47 EST … So, late last year, I said – to some controversy here – that the violent crackdown against the Occupy movement in…  [more]

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Jan 31 2012

If we killed them, they must be terrorists

With its deadly drones, the US is fighting a coward’s war

By , Monday 30 January 2012 16.00 EST … The ancient Greeks, unlike the Jews or the Christians, invested their gods with human failings. Divine judgment, they…  [more]

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Jan 31 2012

Well, it’s just great to be here!

Mitt Romney: the man behind the perma-smile

By , Monday 30 January 2012 15.00 EST … “Well, it’s just great to be here!” Mitt Romney says as he bounds on to the stage at a campaign stop in…  [more]

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Jan 30 2012

Conditions of unequal power

The Truth About the Conservative Mind: Why Reactionaries from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin Have Fought Real Liberty

By Corey Robin, January 29, 2012 … It’s been a rotten few months for the nation’s wealthiest 1 percent. From the…  [more]

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Jan 30 2012

Prophetic excerpts

Arendt: Born in conflict, Israel will degenerate into Sparta, and American Jews will need to back away

By , January 1, 2012 … For the new year, here are some prophetic excerpts from two essays of Hannah Arendt’s,…  [more]

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Jan 30 2012

Congratulations!

Hurrah for Egypt!

By Uri Avnery, 28/01/12 … THE IMPOSSIBLE has happened. The Egyptian parliament, democratically elected by a free people, has convened for its first session. For me this is a wonderful, a joyful occasion. For many Israelis, this…  [more]

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