Jan 11 2012
Guantánamo at 10: the defeat of liberty by fear By Michael Ratner, Wednesday 11 January 2012 09.00 ES … On 11 January 2002, the United States began showing major signs of what I call “Guantánamo syndrome”, after one of the ailment’s first and most enduring symptoms. That was the day when the Bush administration transferred …
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Jan 09 2012
Jesus doesn’t need a leg up, Justin Bieber By Elizabeth Day, Saturday 7 January 2012 … We’ve had more than 2,000 years of Christian history and, safe to say, they haven’t been entirely uneventful ones thus far. There have been virgin births and resurrections, a scattering of medieval crusades and Spanish Inquisitions, a light seasoning …
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Jan 09 2012
President Romney Meets Other World Leaders By Calvin Trillin, January 16, 2012 … When Mitt Romney introduces himself to voters, he has a peculiar habit of guessing their age or nationality, often incorrectly. (A regular query: “Are you French Canadian?”) When making small talk with locals, he peppers the conversation with curious details. . . …
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Jan 08 2012
Blessed are the un-cool By Rachel Held Evans, Jun 15, 2011 … People sometimes assume that because I’m a progressive 30-year-old who enjoys Mumford and Sons and has no children, I must want a super-hip church—you know, the kind that’s called “Thrive” or “Be” and which boasts “an awesome worship experience,” a fair-trade coffee bar, …
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Jan 07 2012
Santa Muerte: Mexico’s Devotion To the Saint of Death By R. Andrew Chesnut, 1/7/12 08:20 AM ET … While tens of thousands of Mexicans have lost their lives in the ongoing drug war, millions more have become devoted to death. Saint Death (Santa Muerte) is a skeletal folk saint whose cult has proliferated on both …
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Jan 07 2012
Republicans: we don’t need no regulation By Thomas Frank, Friday 6 January 2012 13.00 EST … Here are the two contradictory facts you must keep in your mind if you wish to understand American politics today: 1. We are entering the fifth year of a profound economic slump that was brought on, in large part, …
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Jan 06 2012
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EItk7TuuV0[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EItk7TuuV0 Newt Gingrich: Palestinians are an ‘invented’ people By Natasha Mozgovaya and Reuters, 01:41 10.12.11 … U.S. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich thrust himself into controversy on Friday by declaring that the Palestinians are an “invented” people who want to destroy Israel. The former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives predictably sided with Israel …
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