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Jan 15 2012

Protestant empire

Where Exactly Is Biblical Israel?

By , 1/14/12 05:07 PM ET … The phrase “Biblical Israel” often passes on the lips of Republican presidential contenders, representatives of the Netanyahu government, and Israeli settlers. But where exactly is this…  [more]

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Jan 14 2012

Is this land made for you and me?

Woody Guthrie, more relevant than ever

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Friday, Jan 13, 2012 9:53 AM 11:50:33 CST … The traveling medicine show known as the race for the Republican presidential nomination has moved on from Iowa…  [more]

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Jan 14 2012

A gentlemanly fashion

The marines urination video doesn’t show the real war crime

By , Friday 13 January 2012 13.47 EST … The video of US marines urinating on Afghan corpses does not shock me. Though their behavior is disgusting and…  [more]

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Jan 14 2012

Guilt beyond doubt

For the families of Haditha, this is a matter of honour

By , Friday 13 January 2012 16.30 EST … It was more than six years ago, but the massacre that took place at Haditha, western Iraq,…  [more]

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Jan 14 2012

Grovelling to Netanyahu

The ‘invented people’ stand little chance

By Robert Fisk, Saturday 14 January 2012 … Thank goodness we don’t have to hear Newt Gingrich for a while. His statement that the Palestinians were an “invented people” marked about the lowest point…  [more]

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Jan 14 2012

Core values

This is not about ‘bad apples’. This is the horror of war

By Robert Fisk, Friday 13 January 2012 … So now it’s snapshots of US Marines pissing on the Afghan dead. Better, I suppose, than the US soldiers pictured…  [more]

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Jan 12 2012

Warmongers’ wet dream

What War With Iran Might Look Like

By , Thursday, 12 January 2012 16:34 … Back in September 2007 I wrote an article for Antiwar.com called “What World War III May Look Like.” The article, which…  [more]

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