Mar 25 2012
“Patriotic Gore is Not Really Much Like Any Other Book by Anyone” By David Blight, March 22, 2012, at 7:02 AM ET … Fifty years ago this spring, the great literary critic Edmund Wilson, author of classic intellectual histories of Marxism, French symbolism, English literature of all kinds, and many other subjects, published one of the …
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Mar 25 2012
What Would Jesus Brew? Lots, beer makers say By Amanda Greene, March 23 … All this talk of beer was making the former seminarian thirsty. “Cheers,” said assistant brewer Christopher McGarvey, taking a sip from his pint of golden ale. Then he continued his lecture on the history of beer in ancient Samaria to a crowd …
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Mar 25 2012
The False Debate About Attacking Iran By Nicholas D. Kristof, March 24, 2012 … I wonder if we in the news media aren’t inadvertently leaving the impression that there is a genuine debate among experts about whether an Israeli military strike on Iran makes sense this year. There really isn’t such a debate. Or rather, it’s …
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Mar 24 2012
The War On Religion Does Not Exist By Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, 03/23/2012 6:40 pm … Apparently, attempts are underway to open a new front in the supposed “war on religion” in my home state of Louisiana as it takes center stage in the presidential primary season. Truth be told, from what I have …
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Mar 24 2012
War on Iran? It is too soon to reminisce about Iraq, let alone have a repeat By Marina Hyde, Friday 23 March 2012 16.30 EDT … The thing about a supertanker is that at least you can turn it round. It takes a while, by all accounts, but you have to think any such vessel …
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Mar 23 2012
‘Belambai’ is Afghanistan’s ‘My Lai’ By Paul Rosenberg, 21 Mar 2012 13:07 … He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you – Friedrich Nietzsche I immediately thought of the My Lai Massacre …
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Mar 21 2012
Madness is not the reason for this massacre By Robert Fisk, Saturday 17 March 2012 … I’m getting a bit tired of the “deranged” soldier story. It was predictable, of course. The 38-year-old staff sergeant who massacred 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, near Kandahar this week had no sooner returned to base than the …
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