Jan 25 2012
Why We Must Learn America’s Islamic History By Engy Abdelkader, 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 three small Spanish ships comprising Columbus’s fleet were in fact Muslim? Martin Alonso Pinzon the captain …
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Jan 25 2012
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 so than in the case of Iran. Iran, the dark revolutionary Islamist menace. Shia Iran, …
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Jan 22 2012
Carville to GOP: You have a disaster on your hands By James Carville, 2:41 PM EST, Sat January 21, 2012 … Memo to Republican Establishment: I would send this memo to each of you individually, but I’m not sure exactly who you are. I’ve been told that you exist and that people like my colleagues …
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Jan 22 2012
The World War on Democracy By John Pilger, January 20, 2012 … Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s …
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Jan 16 2012
Marines Urinating on Corpses—What the Video Doesn’t Show By Annie Keeghan, January 13, 2012 1:11PM … I was getting ready to post another blog, one more lighthearted than the last that received so much attention and inspired some great dialogue (thank you!). But then I heard on the news that marines were videotaped urinating on …
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Jan 16 2012
Letter from a Birmingham Jail By Martin Luther King, Jr., 16 April 1963 … 16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If …
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Jan 15 2012
We’re all guilty of dehumanizing the enemy By Sebastian Junger, January 13 … The video that emerged in recent days appearing to show four U.S. Marines urinating on several dead Taliban fighters has outraged many people in this country. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta have condemned the act, the …
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