Dec 22 2013
And Now This Filthy Flood By Mohammed Omer, Sunday, December 22, 2013 GAZA CITY , Dec 20 2013 (IPS) – Wearing tattered shoes and hopping between dirty puddles, 14-year-old Sabeh manages to find his way to the market at the Al Shati refugee camp, one of Gaza’s most heavily populated and poor areas. He …
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Dec 21 2013
Phil Robertson’s America By Ta-Nehisi Coates, Dec 20 2013, 10:08 AM ET I’ve yet to take in an episode of Duck Dynasty. I hear it’s a fine show, anchored by a humorous and good-natured family of proud Americans. I try to be good natured, and I have been told that I can appreciate a …
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Dec 21 2013
Oy Vey Maria! The Virgin Birth as Mistake, Marketing, and Major Distraction By Rev. David Felten, 12/20/2013 1:16 pm There really is something about Mary. Catholics aren’t the only ones who harbor a measure of devotion to Jesus’ mother that can sometimes border on the fanatic. But Mary can be a bit of problem. …
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Dec 08 2013
An obsessive’s documenting of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon can show us how the West lost respect for international law By Robert Fisk, Sunday 8 December 2013 Odd Karsten Tveit was always a very obsessional chap. Every story he covered, he always wanted to dig deeper, study further, hear one more tale of horror, …
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Dec 08 2013
Mass murder in the Middle East is funded by our friends the Saudis By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 8 December 2013 Donors in Saudi Arabia have notoriously played a pivotal role in creating and maintaining Sunni jihadist groups over the past 30 years. But, for all the supposed determination of the United States and its …
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Dec 08 2013
Doomsday theory 2014: Obama as the anti-Christ By Jordan Yerman, Dec 2nd, 2013 [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RPQnsizbos[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RPQnsizbos How the world will end: Not with a bang, but with a soundtrack 2012 came and went with no apocalypse. No economic implosion (we got that one a few years earlier). No Rogue Planet Nibiru. Those who were so …
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Dec 07 2013
Mandela’s mission is not yet complete By Gideon Levy, Dec. 8, 2013 2:30 AM South African President Nelson Mandela, in his address for International Solidarity Day with the Palestinian People on December 4, 1997, said: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” And Prime Minister Benjamin …
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