May 23 2013
These photographs were taken earlier this morning, on the way back from Oklahoma City. It was still raining hard, and there was lots of lightning. Perhaps that’s why we were able to drive into the devastation… This is Blake Butler’s video, shot while I was taking the photos above:
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May 10 2013
The dark side of home schooling: creating soldiers for the culture war By Katherine Stewart, Wednesday 8 May 2013 07.00 EDT Several decades ago, political activists on the religious right began to put together an “ideology machine”. Home schooling was a big part of the plan. The idea was to breed and “train up” …
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Apr 30 2013
Behind the use of drones is a complacent belief that murdering Muslims is always justifiable By Yasmin Alibhai Brown, Sunday 28 April 2013 First, read this unconditional acceptance of facts that cannot be denied nor excused. Islamicist terrorism has inflicted atrocities and diffused panic and amorphous, long-term anxiety from east to west, south to …
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Apr 28 2013
How to debunk George W. Bush’s attempts at revisionism By Alex Seitz-Wald, Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 08:00 AM CDT Every dog goes to heaven and every former president should get a shot at repairing his legacy, especially when it’s as tattered as George W. Bush’s. With the opening of his presidential library and museum …
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Apr 27 2013
Syria and sarin gas: US claims have a very familiar ring By Robert Fisk, Sunday 28 April 2013 Is there any way of escaping the theatre of chemical weapons? First, Israeli “military intelligence” says that Bashar al-Assad’s forces have used/have probably used/might have used/could use chemical weapons. Then Chuck Hagel, the US Defence Secretary, …
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Apr 16 2013
It’s time to bury not just Thatcher – but Thatcherism By Seumas Milne, Tuesday 16 April 2013 17.20 EDT They have only themselves to blame. Protests were always likely at any official sendoff for the most socially destructive prime minister in modern British history. But by turning Margaret Thatcher’s funeral into a state-funded Tory …
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Apr 16 2013
Remarks to the Cleveland City Club By Robert F. Kennedy, April 5, 1968 This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity to speak briefly to you about this mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every …
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