Sep 05 2011
Labor Day and the spirit of Joe Hill By Clancy Sigal, Monday 5 September 2011 13.30 BST … l eat, bye and bye, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You’ll get pie in the sky when you die – “The Preacher and the Slave”, a parody hymn written …
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Sep 04 2011
If Rick Perry is an economic miracle worker, why are so many Texans going hungry? By John Turner, Sunday 4 September 2011 01.07 BST … One of the questions I’m constantly asked here at the food bank in Austin, Texas is: “I don’t understand why there are so many people who are hungry: why is …
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Sep 03 2011
Stetson Kennedy, unmasker of the Klan By Diane Roberts, Friday 2 September 2011 18.30 BST … You wouldn’t think it to look at us now, but the United States used to grow a fine crop of progressives. Stetson Kennedy, who died 27 August at the age of 94, was one of the great ones. Political …
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Sep 03 2011
Calling all ultimate missionaries to Israel By Belén Fernández, September 2, 2011 at 12:31 pm … I first learned of an intriguing excursion known as “The Ultimate Mission to Israel” in 2009 while perusing an article on the website of the Jerusalem Post. The article, which outlined Israel’s sudden concern for the fate of UNIFIL …
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Sep 02 2011
For 10 years, we’ve lied to ourselves to avoid asking the one real question By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 3 September 2011 … By their books, ye shall know them. I’m talking about the volumes, the libraries – nay, the very halls of literature – which the international crimes against humanity of 11 September 2001 have …
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Aug 31 2011
Fear of Islam: a study By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, Aug 30, 2011 11:13 AM … The Center for American Progress has just released an extensive report, Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America, detailing the “funders, organizations, and individuals who have contributed to the discourse on Islamophobia in this country. ” As …
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Aug 31 2011
WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says By Matthew Schofield | McClatchy Newspapers, Wednesday, August 31, 2011 … A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an …
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