Oct 28 2012
How US drones forge as many foes as they kill By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 28 October 2012 Drones or their equivalent have long attracted political and military leaders dreaming of the surgical removal of their enemies. In 1812, the governor of Moscow, Count Rostopchin, devised a plan to get a hot-air balloon to hover …
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Oct 27 2012
Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war By Edward Wilson, Saturday 27 October 2012 06.00 EDT If you were born before 27 October 1962, Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov saved your life. It was the most dangerous day in history. An American spy plane had been shot down over Cuba while another U2 …
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Oct 25 2012
The real Republican rape platform By Jill Filipovic, Thursday 25 October 2012 07.30 EDT Dear GOP candidates and party members, I’m going to give you some free campaign advice: stop talking about rape. The latest Republican rape commentary comes from Romney-endorsed Indiana senatorial candidate Richard Mourdock, who tells us: “I think even …
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Oct 23 2012
Jordan through evangelical Christian eyes – Disneyland with conversions By Becky Garrison, Tuesday 23 October 2012 03.30 EDT I took a press trip round Jordan with a group of mostly evangelical Christian writers from the US last month. I had visited before, with a largely Catholic and Anabaptist group, who had seen their visit …
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Oct 22 2012
If massacres like Cromwell’s avert suffering, perhaps they can be justified By Andrew Brown, Friday 19 October 2012 03.29 EDT The pleasure of reading history is that it’s so much more unexpected than the news. Who would have thought that one of the great philosophers of the enlightenment defended Oliver Cromwell’s massacres in Ireland? …
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Oct 22 2012
These fondant fancies are baking little girls of us all By Tanya Gold, Friday 19 October 2012 16.30 EDT The clock is broken. Everything points backwards. It is a truism that these are, for women, conservative times. Female unemployment climbs, equal pay stalls, employment rights die, female representation sinks and, to distract us from …
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Oct 22 2012
Tap Dancing at the Cataclysm By Charles Redfern, 10/15/2012 12:41 pm So there are two ants on a hill, see, and both feel the ground tremble and boom. They notice a gargantuan creature — a sky-high behemoth — walking toward them. One ant says to the other ant: “Human: better run.” The other replies: …
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