Aug 05 2011
Yes, Congress Is in Session (for a Few Seconds, Anyway) By Jennifer Steinhauer, August 5, 2011 … WASHINGTON — “Thonk!” That’s the sound of the gavel smacking down as the people’s business got underway Friday in the United States Senate. It was also the sound, 59 seconds later, of the end of the workday. Mission …
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Aug 05 2011
Let America be America again By Paul Rosenberg, 05 Aug 2011 12:01 … “America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath – America will be!” – Langston Hughes … As I wrote last week, there are a number of troubling facets of the New Apostolic Reformation [NAR] that cry out for …
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Aug 04 2011
Once untouchable, the old despot and his sons faced the wrath of the nation they had terrorised By Robert Fisk, Thursday, 4 August 2011 … Just when the Arab dictators desperately need to drink the secure, cool waters of an Arab summer, along came the Egyptians yesterday to poison the well. Deep into its depths, …
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Aug 02 2011
How Saudi Arabia Killed the Arab Spring By Fayyad, August 1, 2011 … Saudi Arabia squashed the “Arab Spring” when it sent its military to quell the popular uprising in neighboring Bahrain earlier this year. The Saudi intervention was the first systemic use of uniformed, overwhelming force to suppress peaceful demonstrations in the wave of …
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Aug 02 2011
Le 28 Juillet : La Liberté guidant le peuple (1830), Eugène Delacroix. Tableau commémorant les Trois Glorieuses et symbole de la France, de la démocratie et de la République (analyse de l’œuvre sur le site du Louvre). 8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance By Bruce E. Levine, July …
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Jul 31 2011
Evangelicals Without Blowhards By Nicholas D. Kristof, July 30, 2011 … IN these polarized times, few words conjure as much distaste in liberal circles as “evangelical Christian.” That’s partly because evangelicals came to be associated over the last 25 years with blowhard scolds. When the Rev. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson discussed on television whether …
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Jul 31 2011
Behold what has become of our fourth estate (there is something pathetic about getting better news from the Comedy Channel than we can get from mainstream newspapers and television): [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLh78qiHl_M[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLh78qiHl_M
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