May 07 2012
The Book of Mitt By Alex Pareene, Sunday, May 6, 2012 08:00 AM CDT … “The precipitous mountain pass that led the [Mormon] pioneers down into the Salt Lake Valley and still is the route of access from the east on Interstate 80, was first explored by my great-grandfather, Parley P. Pratt,” Mitt Romney cheerfully …
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May 03 2012
‘We’ve gone way beyond Apartheid’ By Frank Barat, 02 May 2012 14:27 … I caught up with Jeff Halper, long time Israeli peace activist, director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and author of numerous books, while he was on a European speaking tour. Here is what he had to say about the …
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May 01 2012
Palestinian Christians Against the Occupation By Philip Farah, 05/ 1/2012 6:29 am … In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren claimed that Christians in Israel are better off than their brethren anywhere else in the Middle East. Two Sundays ago, “60 Minutes” made clear he attempted to intimidate Bob …
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May 01 2012
Justice requires action to stop subjugation of Palestinians By Desmond Tutu, Apr 30, 2012 05:41 PM … A quarter-century ago I barnstormed around the United States encouraging Americans, particularly students, to press for divestment from South Africa. Today, regrettably, the time has come for similar action to force an end to Israel’s long-standing occupation of …
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Apr 30 2012
Osama Bin Laden anniversary: Torture apologists try again to justify the unjustifiable By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, 12:23 PM ET, 04/30/2012 … Torture apologists are at it again, attempting to justify the unjustifiable. One year ago, former Bush administration officials like Vice President Dick Cheney, said torture (by the euphemism “enhanced interrogation”) produced “some of the …
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Apr 29 2012
Healthcare’s foreign invasion By Kate Tulenko, Saturday, Apr 28, 2012 02:00 PM CDT … Approximately 15 percent of all healthcare workers and 25 percent of all physicians in the United States were born and educated elsewhere. This means that 1.5 million healthcare jobs are “insourced,” occupied by foreign-born, foreign-trained workers brought into the United States …
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Apr 29 2012
Christopher Hitchens made a cogent case for war – but he was still wrong By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 29 April 2012 … There was a telling omission from the range of topics mentioned at the memorial for Christopher Hitchens at the Cooper Union in New York on 20 April. The 30 people who spoke, mostly …
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