Sep 06 2012
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09cEwnivdr0[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09cEwnivdr0 In caving on Jerusalem, Dems pulled back the curtain on the lobby By Philip Weiss, September 6, 2012 Last night was an amazing moment at the Democratic National Convention; for an instant, we saw the Israel lobby naked on the national stage. When party bosses stuffed the phrase, “Jerusalem is and will remain …
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Sep 03 2012
The day a Cockburn set the White House aflame By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 02 September 2012 As a correspondent in Washington 20 years ago, I received occasional calls from local television stations on the anniversary of the burning of the White House by a British force in August 1814. The reason they wanted a …
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Sep 03 2012
Saving ‘Lyin’ Ryan’ By Mark Hertsgaard, 03 Sep 2012 09:40 No doubt about it, Paul Ryan’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention the other night was a daring display, especially for a guy with his last name. If Ryan keeps spouting so many blatant and easily checkable lies, the temptation to comedy show …
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Sep 03 2012
Cruel Conservatives Throw a Masquerade Ball By Maureen Dowd, September 1, 2012 MESSAGE: They care. Republicans care deeply. They really do. They care deeply about making us think that they care deeply. That’s why they knocked themselves out producing a convention that was a colossal hoax. They did that for us. Because they care. …
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Sep 03 2012
Not all Republicans are Islamophobes but all Islamophobes are Republicans By Faheem Younus, 05:49 PM ET, 08/29/2012 The straw man of the famous post-Sept. 11 slogan, “Not every Muslim is a terrorist but every terrorist is a Muslim” was debunked by a 2005 FBI report. It showed that only 6 percent of terrorist attacks …
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Sep 03 2012
Why Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan believe wealthiness is next to godliness By Diane Roberts, Saturday 1 September 2012 10.00 EDT God loves Republicans, as they’ll be the first to tell you. A Florida pastor is taking credit for praying Hurricane Isaac away from the Republican national convention. Instead, the wind and water went …
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Sep 03 2012
Why I had no choice but to spurn Tony Blair By Desmond Tutu, Saturday 1 September 2012 The immorality of the United States and Great Britain’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003, premised on the lie that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, has destabilised and polarised the world to a greater extent than …
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