Category: America

More civilized?

Why does the US government think burning Qurans is less civilised than drone attacks on civilian populations?

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Ye have made it

And said unto them, It is written , My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. (Matthew 21:13, Mark 11:17, and Luke 19:46)

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Madness

Did 9/11 make us all mad? Our memorial to the innocents who died nine years ago has been a holocaust of fire and blood . . .

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Brilliant

Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 1:57 PM Subject: Chas Freeman’s Brilliant Speech in Oslo TO: Distinguished Recipients FM: John Whitbeck Miraculously, almost instantly after I circulated the interview with Chas Freeman earlier today, one of my distinguished recipients sent me the text of his speech in Oslo this morning, to which I had referred in …

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Righteous anger

Barry Blitt’s cartoon in Frank Rich’s NYT opinion piece about the billionaires bankrolling the Tea Party.

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Hallowed?

Ground Zero’s Slave Graves By Jen Phillips, Wednesday August 25, 2010 4:32 PM PDT The outrage about the “ground zero mosque” has turned very ugly, as this video of this recent protest shows. People are calling Mohammed a pig. A New York City cab driver was stabbed today after his passenger asked him if he was …

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The greatest danger

Baptists, Islam and the greatest danger By Alan Sherouse, Friday, August 27, 2010 NEW YORK (ABP) — I come to the escalating debate over the Islamic center proposed near Ground Zero as a Baptist pastor in the heart of Manhattan. A New Yorker. A Baptist. A pastor. Each of these parts of my identity tells …

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