Category: America

Protestant empire

Where Exactly Is Biblical Israel? By Rachel Havrelock, 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 Israel of the Bible to be found? Not in the Bible itself. The Hebrew Bible (known …

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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 and New Hampshire, and all eyes are now on South Carolina. Well, not exactly all. At …

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A gentlemanly fashion

The marines urination video doesn’t show the real war crime By Ross Caputi, 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 unacceptable, I find the public’s reaction to this video far more troubling. People are not outraged …

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Guilt beyond doubt

For the families of Haditha, this is a matter of honour By Nick Broomfield, Friday 13 January 2012 16.30 EST … It was more than six years ago, but the massacre that took place at Haditha, western Iraq, in November 2005, still resonates in the Middle East. The now notorious war crime, which left 24 …

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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 in the Republican-Christian Right-Likudist/Israel relationship. So deep has this pact now become that you can …

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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 beside the innocent Afghan teenager they fragged back in March of last year. Or the …

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Warmongers’ wet dream

What War With Iran Might Look Like By Philip Giraldi, 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 presumed that an incident involving U.S. troops on the border between Iraq and Iran could easily escalate into …

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