Category: America

Because I hate Hindus and Muslims

Death by brown skin By Wajahat Ali, Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:24 AM CST   Sunando Sen, a 46-year-old Indian immigrant, recently opened a small copying and printing business in New York City’s Upper West Side with his hard-earned savings. Described by friends as “very educated” and “so quiet, so gentle, so nice,” Sen’s American …

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People who nobody elected

Israel lobby should not have veto over US president’s cabinet By Michael Brün, 30 Dec 2012 12:19   If you care about the direction of this country but think you don’t have time to pay attention to what the Israel lobby is doing, you may want to think again. This is no conspiracy theory – …

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Only prophets now are children and fools

At Israeli school, anyone can learn to be a prophet By The Associated Press, Dec.29, 2012 7:00 PM   Instead of long beards and robes, they wear track suits and T-shirts. Their tablets are electronic, not hewn of stone, and they hold smartphones, not staffs. They may not look the part, but this ragtag group …

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In the business of tracking your dissent

Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy By Naomi Wolf, Saturday 29 December 2012 09.58 EST   It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, …

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Connected solely by religion

The Jewish people’s ultimate treasure hunt By Ofer Aderet, Dec.28, 2012 9:12 AM   “Just imagine a group of blind people who encounter an elephant for the first time in their lives. They place their hands on it and touch it in order to understand what kind of animal it is. But each of them …

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Prophylactic self-censorship

Hagel, the lobby and the limits of power By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, 28 Dec 2012 11:43   You have to do no more than watch this attack ad produced by the neoconservative pressure group the Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) to understand the significance of Chuck Hagel’s possible nomination as US secretary of defence. The …

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The truest answer

Why, God? By Maureen Dowd, December 25, 2012   When my friend Robin was dying, she asked me if I knew a priest she could talk to who would not be, as she put it, “too judgmental.” I knew the perfect man, a friend of our family, a priest conjured up out of an old …

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