Dec 07 2013
Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel. By Musa Okwonga, Friday 6 December 2013 Dear revisionists, Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel. Over the next few days you will try so, so hard to make him something he was not, and you will fail. You will try to smooth him, to sandblast him, …
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Dec 07 2013
Follow Mandela’s example, and roar with laughter at all this rightwing fawning By Marina Hyde, Friday 6 December 2013 12.05 EST Asked for his feelings on meeting the Spice Girls in 1997 – shortly after Mel B had compared their “girl power quest” with the anti-apartheid movement – Nelson Mandela obliged. “I don’t want …
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Nov 26 2013
Obama Crushes the Neocons By Michael Tomasky, November 25th 20135:45 am Well, the ayatollah appears to have lent his provisional support to the historic U.S.-Iran accord announced Saturday night. In a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said the deal “can be the basis for further intelligent actions.” Now we just …
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Nov 24 2013
JFK and the day I took one quick shot in Dallas… By Dom Joly, Sunday 24 November 2013 I’ve spent the last week overdosing on Kennedy porn. I’ve watched so many documentaries about what happened on that awful day in Dallas 50 years ago that my own head is ready to explode. I feel …
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Nov 23 2013
UNICEF isn’t anti-Semitic By Gideon Levy, Mar. 10, 2013 2:45 AM It has already been met here with a typical shrug of the shoulders, the report by the United Nations Children Fund declaring that Palestinian children detained by the Israel Defense Forces are subject to widespread, systematic ill-treatment that violates international law. Now it’s …
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Nov 22 2013
Tea party has roots in the Dallas of 1963 By Bill Minutaglio, November 21 The president is a socialist. He is neutering the United States on the world stage. He is spending us into bankruptcy. He is hellbent on expanding national health care, which will surely lead to government death panels. He is advancing big-government …
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Nov 22 2013
Excerpts from a speech that never was… JFK’s Trade Mart Speech, to be delivered the day he was assassinated, November 22, 1963. … This link between leadership and learning is not only essential at the community level. It is even more indispensable in world affairs. Ignorance and misinformation can handicap the progress of …
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