Some Arab-Americans need more of the American By Hussein Ibish, June 14, 2011 … The Arab-American community continues to suffer from the debilitating condition of operating primarily within an Arab rather than an American framework, and of approaching its political mission based on a set of imported imperatives, rivalries and grievances. Far too many prominent …
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Jun 12 2011
Botched imperial partitions
Tremors on mountains of tyranny By Pankaj Mishra, June 13, 2011 … AT A dark moment in postcolonial history, when many US-backed despots seemed indestructible, the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz wrote: ”We shall witness [the day] when the enormous mountains of tyranny blow away like cotton.” That miraculous day finally came in Egypt …
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Jun 11 2011
Descent into darkness
Looking beyond Obama to ‘The Golden Age’ By Paul Rosenberg, 11 Jun 2011 15:53 … A few short weeks ago, President Obama was on top of the world – or so it seemed. He first pushed back against the growing wave of domestic silliness by releasing his long-form birth certificate, turning Donald Trump – his temporary …
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Jun 10 2011
Substantial convergence
God Is Not a Christian By Desmond Tutu, 06/ 1/11 09:25 PM ET … The following is excerpted from the Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s new book, ‘God Is Not A Christian: And Other Provocations.’ This talk also comes from a forum in Britain, where Tutu addressed leaders of different faiths during a mission to the city …
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Jun 10 2011
Uninformed readings
What You Should Know Before Reading The Bible By Kristin M. Swenson, Ph.D., 06/ 9/11 02:17 PM ET … This essay might, alternatively, be called “On Not Reading the Bible.” But then I must hastily add: I’m not against reading the Bible. Not exactly, anyway. Thing is, the Bible doesn’t lend itself to reading straight …
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Jun 10 2011
Who is Brian Haw?
St Francis of Assisi: a saint for our times By Heather McDougall, Thursday 9 June 2011 11.43 BST … We are living through cuts to services and benefits that will disproportionately affect the poor. We have also seen a hysterical response to protest and dissent from some sections of society. Concern for the poor is …
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Jun 10 2011
It pains me to say this
Texas hoax had the media digging their own grave By Bob Garfield, Thursday 9 June 2011 13.30 BST … Europe woke up to a tremendous disappointment on Wednesday. Despite the lurid promises of the 11 o’clock news, authorities in Texas had failed to unearth 30 dismembered corpses from a property in rural Liberty County. Not …
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