Oct 29 2011
America’s Exploding Pipe Dream By Chareles M. Blow, October 28, 2011 … We are slowly — and painfully — being forced to realize that we are no longer the America of our imaginations. Our greatness was not enshrined. Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we …
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Oct 28 2011
The Koch Brothers By Bob Abeshouse, 27 Oct 2011 14:33 … Charles and David Koch are each worth about $25bn, which makes them the fourth richest Americans. When you combine their fortunes, they are the third wealthiest people in the world. Radical libertarians who use their money to oppose government and virtually all regulation as …
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Oct 25 2011
A Devotion for Wall Street By Shane Claiborne, 10/25/11 11:20 AM ET … A reporter recently asked me, “As a Christian leader, does your faith have anything to say about Wall Street?” I said, “How much time do you have?” My faith has a lot to say about Wall Street. Theologian Karl Barth said, “We …
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Oct 23 2011
Lessons in humanity from a Libyan family, a tale of Dickens from Cairo – and the wrong shark By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 22 October 2011 … It’s an ill wind, etc. Today my thoughts are not with the Gaddafi family but with Bassam and Saniya al-Ghossain, whose daughter Raafat was killed in Libya on 15 …
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Oct 22 2011
Even Muammar Gaddafi deserved a private death By Mark Lawson,Friday 21 October 2011 08.30 EDT … Western foreign policy in recent years has combined with the democratisation of filmed images to create a stark new problem for media organisations: the existence of images of regime-changed leaders before, during and after the moment of death. Scenes …
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Oct 20 2011
You can’t blame Gaddafi for thinking he was one of the good guys By Robert Fisk, Friday, 21 October 2011 … We loved him. We hated him. Then we loved him again. Blair slobbered over him. Then we hated him again. Then La Clinton slobbered over her BlackBerry and we really hated him even more …
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Oct 17 2011
Occupy protest critics exploit anti-Semitism By MJ Rosenberg, 16 Oct 2011 10:12 … An ugly old tradition is back: Exploiting anti-Semitism to break the backs of popular movements that threaten the power of the wealthiest one per cent of our population. It is being used to undermine the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has conservatives …
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