Dec 24 2012
The idolatry of the gun By Valerie Elverton Dixon, 06:49 PM ET, 12/21/2012 In their first extended statements since the mass shooting in Newton, Conn., National Rifle Association representatives, advocated armed guards in schools. In their mind, this was the most immediate step that the nation ought to take to protect our children. But …
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Dec 23 2012
A word of advice about the Middle East – we’ve reached the ‘tipping point’ with cliches By Robert Fisk, Sunday 23 December 2012 Remember the days when we thought Egypt’s path to democracy was a done deal? Western-trained Mohamed Morsi had invited the people to come and meet him in Hosni Mubarak’s former presidential palace, the …
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Dec 23 2012
What would Jesus think of Christmas today? By Yasmin Alibhai Brown, Sunday 23 December 2012 A young man ran after me and tried in vain to get some change as I dashed through the doors of Bafta in Piccadilly on 10 December, my birthday. I was late, you see, for a dinner there, and …
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Dec 22 2012
The disproportionate value of Israeli life By Belen Fernandez, 22 Dec 2012 13:03 Following the conclusion of Operation “Pillar of Defence”, Israel’s latest bout of terror in Gaza, Israeli journalist Gideon Levy wrote in Ha’aretz: Since the first Qassam rocket fell on Israel in April 2001, 59 Israelis have been killed – and 4,717 …
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Dec 21 2012
Transcript: Kathleen T. McFarland talks with Gen. David H. Petraeus McFarland: I’ve got something to say to you, by the way, directly from Roger Ailes. Petraeus: Oh, at .?.?. with no one else in the room? I hope? Q: Well, you know. .?.?. You guys have ears? Or your ears are dead? No. …
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Dec 21 2012
Why the US media ignored Murdoch’s brazen bid to hijack the presidency By Carl Bernstein, Thursday 20 December 2012 11.41 EST So now we have it: what appears to be hard, irrefutable evidence of Rupert Murdoch‘s ultimate and most audacious attempt – thwarted, thankfully, by circumstance – to hijack America’s democratic institutions on a …
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Dec 20 2012
From “Operation Wetback” To Newtown: Tracing The Hick Fascism Of The NRA By Mark Ames, Dec 17th, 2012 Las Vegas, NV: I’ve been writing about these rampage murders for about a decade now, but Friday’s rampage massacre was Different. So I’m going to approach this piece somewhat Differently than I usually do — I’m …
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