Dec 17 2012
What makes America’s gun culture totally unique in the world, in four charts By Max Fisher, December 15, 2012 at 2:14 pm The deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary is provoking another heated round of the same conversation that the U.S. has after every mass shooting: is there something particular or unusual to our gun …
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Dec 16 2012
Newtown shooting: when it comes to guns and violence, America is like a failed state Observer editorial, Saturday 15 December 2012 In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness the character of Kurtz, at his life’s end, has a moment of profound lucidity, which prompts his last words: “The horror.” This weekend in the wake of …
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Dec 14 2012
Zero Dark Thirty: CIA hagiography, pernicious propaganda By Glenn Greenwald, Friday 14 December 2012 10.03 EST I’ve now seen “Zero Dark Thirty”. Before getting to that: the controversy triggered this week by my commentary on the debate over that film was one of the most ridiculous in which I’ve ever been involved. It was …
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Dec 07 2012
Christian right enforces GOP senators’ vote against UN disabilities treaty By Nancy L Cohen, Thursday 6 December 2012 10.55 EST I couldn’t sleep at night if I were a senator and did not vote for this. So said Steven Rothstein, a leading advocate for the disabled, to the Boston Globe on the eve of …
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Nov 20 2012
Israel demands our support because it fights its ‘war against terrorists’ in our name By Robert Fisk, Tuesday 20 November 2012 Enough is enough. Now we have even “National Infrastructure” Minister Uzi Landau – one of my favourite dogsbodies in the Israeli government – talking about “collateral damage” and the justification for bombing Hamas’s …
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Nov 20 2012
Do pictures of children killed in Gaza force us to face a gruesome reality? By Giles Fraser, Tuesday 20 November 2012 08.20 EST Let’s start slowly, carefully, with what can be said. Photographs show four small children dead on the cold aluminium surface of the morgue. They are positioned in such a way that …
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Nov 18 2012
Time to remind ourselves of Britain’s unhelpful legacy to the Palestinians By Yasmin Alibhai Brown, Sunday 18 November 2012 You’ve seen the pictures, read about the bloodshed, heard the accusations. The military head of Hamas was assassinated by Israel in Gaza. Rockets fired in retaliation killed three Israelis and Israel then went into overkill. …
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