Jun 24 2013
God’s Dear John Letter To The U.S. By http://www.thegodarticle.com/, 09/13/2011 Dear John and Jane Public, Honestly, don’t fret over it. I get it. Dear God, I get it. You’ve found a new god. Truthfully, I’ve seen this coming for awhile. I tried to deny it. I even tried to change it. (I have to …
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Jun 23 2013
The three things that always accompany occupation By Robert Fisk, Sunday 23 June 2013 On 20th November 2001, in the Afghan embassy in Islamabad, the Taliban stamped into my passport their very last visa, number 001518, valid only for Kandahar and printed on a paper of varying shades of green. At the top were …
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Jun 14 2013
Hereditary Traits By Jeremy Stahl, Friday, June 14, 2013, at 12:06 PM On Thursday, BuzzFeed Washington, D.C., bureau chief John Stanton published a pair of articles calling out the sons of two separate Republican members of Congress for racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, sexist, and homophobic social media accounts. Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake’s teenage son, Tanner, …
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Jun 14 2013
NSA to Americans: ‘All your data are belong to us!’ By Dan Hind, 10 Jun 2013 18:19 A few days ago, the Guardian published details of the US National Security Administration’s PRISM programme. We now know that the NSA is able to access personal data stored by Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Paltalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL …
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Jun 09 2013
All in the space of about two blocks… By Monsieur d’Nalgar, June 7, 2013 Last night, Saturday, June 8, 2013, there was a progressive concert on Bathhouse Row. All part of our annual Hot Springs Music Festival. Each group played for about five minutes, and then the audience “progressed” on to the next event. …
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Jun 01 2013
Why do people hate Israel? (a self-test) By Bradley Burston, May.28, 2013 | 8:15 PM Every year, the BBC World Service publishes a Country Ratings opinion survey, meant to indicate which of the world’s nations are among the most popular, and which the most disliked. In 2013, as in years past, more than 26,000 …
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May 31 2013
The prosperity gospel makes a mockery of Christianity By Andrew Brown, May 29, 2013 There is a very good programme on the “prosperity gospel” available on the Radio 4 website right now. Two things need saying about it. The first is that it proves, if anything could, the difficulty of defining religions in terms …
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