Jun 05 2024
A very concise defense of Palestinians By Monsieur Jacques d’Nalgar, 5 juin 2024 de l’ère commune Zionists are bloody goddamned fascists… A less-concise defense of Palestinians… Leaving aside moral arguments for ending 70-plus years of festering injustice, leaving aside comparisons to South Africa’s systemic apartheid racism, and even leaving aside the ultimate irony of …
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Feb 08 2024
Zajal on Arak By Zein El-Amine, Jan 26, 2015 I remember when electricity came to my village. I must have been about seven or eight. The government installed a transformer in the village center. The thing was housed in a metal locker. The villagers called it ‘The Clock.’ At first, The Clock was a thing …
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Nov 19 2023
Another Jim Palmer Facebook Post August 28, 2023 “You can’t pin Christianity on Jesus. It’s not his fault. Christianity is Paul’s burden to bear, with a little help from the earliest church councils. In my view, Jesus and Paul would have not gotten along well, and Jesus would have been dismayed by many of …
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Sep 24 2023
Dr. Jim Ragland, of Allen, Texas, died September 24, 2023 at the age of 99. He was born in Ada, Oklahoma in 1924 to James Jordan Ragland and Zelda Keithley Ragland. He was preceded in death by his wife of almost 70 years, Leola Lee Ragland, his parents, and his sister JoAnn Craddick. He is …
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Jul 29 2023
Is This the End of Bibi? By David Remnick, July 22, 2023 Netanyahu’s coalition of zealots, the resistance in the streets, and the Israeli Kulturkampf. Benjamin Netanyahu has been Prime Minister of Israel longer than anyone in the history of the state, longer than F.D.R. was President of the United States. And yet, for …
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Apr 17 2023
How Rural America Steals Girls’ Futures By Monica Potts, April 6, 2023 “Boy crazy” was what people called it. “She was so boy crazy,” I would hear about my girlfriends. I never heard the reverse, that a boy was “girl crazy.” Girls having crushes, sneaking out at night to have fun: It seems innocent …
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Aug 03 2022
1950s U.S. Foreign Policy Looms Large in Lebanon By Jacob Boswell, July 29, 2022 The Cold War may be over, but the legacy of containment looms large over Lebanon. For decades, the U.S. has been the single largest financial supporter of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), in a bid to balance Iran’s influence in …
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