Nov 05 2011
The post-racial America of Ann Coulter and Pat Buchanan By Colbert I. King, November 4 … Oh, what a “loverly” time we are having in post-racial America. Except when the outrageous holy of holies of the American conservative movement elect to have their say, as happens often, most recently with right-wing oracles Ann Coulter and Pat …
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Nov 04 2011
Apartheid and the occupation of Palestine By John Dugard, 04 Nov 2011 09:00 … This week, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will consider the question of whether Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) constitute the crime of apartheid within the meaning of the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the …
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Nov 03 2011
America’s itch to brawl has a new target – but bombs can’t conquer Iran By Simon Jenkins, Thursday 3 November 2011 17.30 EDT … This time there will be no excuses. Plans for British support for an American assault on Iran, revealed in today’s Guardian, are appalling. They would risk what even the “wars of …
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Nov 03 2011
Welcoming Palestine to UNESCO By Richard Falk, 02 Nov 2011 11:29 … It may not ease the daily pain of occupation and blockade or the endless anguish of refugee status and exile or the continual humiliations of discrimination and second class citizenship, but the admission of Palestine to membership in UNESCO is for so many …
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Oct 30 2011
You Want to Track Me? Here You Go, F.B.I. By Hasan M. Elahi, October 29, 2011 … ON June 19, 2002, I ran into a bit of a problem that turned my life upside down. It happened at the Detroit airport as I was entering the country. I realized something wasn’t right when the immigration …
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Oct 30 2011
The protesters seem more adult than politicians and plutocrats By Andrew Rawnsley, Saturday 29 October 2011 … The mayor of London demands a law against it to stop tent villages “erupting like boils” across the capital. If you lived like Boris, you too might be a bit paranoid about boils. The prime minister interrupts a …
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Oct 29 2011
The Limping Middle Class By Robert B. Reich, September 3, 2011 … THE 5 percent of Americans with the highest incomes now account for 37 percent of all consumer purchases, according to the latest research from Moody’s Analytics. That should come as no surprise. Our society has become more and more unequal. When so much …
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