Oct 08 2012
Colonised and coloniser, empire’s poison infects us all By George Monbiot, Monday 8 October 2012 15.30 EDT Over the gates of Auschwitz were the words “Work Makes You Free”. Over the gates of the Solovetsky camp in Lenin’s gulag: “Through Labour – Freedom!”. Over the gates of the Ngenya detention camp, run by the …
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Sep 29 2012
The good, the bad and the politically ugly By Cliff Schecter, 29 Sep 2012 13:46 While I plead guilty to being a political junkie, it’s never a bad thing when something outside the realm of our current political slugfest takes me away from reading about our national pageant for at least a bit. Especially …
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Sep 28 2012
Why ‘they’ still don’t hate ‘us’ By Mark LeVine, 26 Sep 2012 08:07 I knew the title to my second book would be Why They Don’t Hate Us before the last embers of what had been the World Trade Center had cooled. Life in New York City was just beginning to reanimate after two …
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Sep 23 2012
A Conservative History of the United States By Jack Hitt, September 19, 2012 1500s: The American Revolutionary War begins: “The reason we fought the revolution in the sixteenth century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown.”—Rick Perry 1607: First welfare state collapses: “Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a …
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Sep 23 2012
Don’t let extremists determine we are in a ‘clash of civilizations’ By Khaled Diab, Sep.23, 2012 11:35 AM Karl Marx once said that history repeats itself: first as tragedy, then as farce. The riots and Iranian fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie which forced the British-Kashmiri author into hiding for 13 years, …
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Sep 20 2012
The ‘Jesus’s wife’ papyrus reveals another version of the Christian story By Tom Holland, Wednesday 19 September 2012 13.30 EDT Our sources for the ancient past are often the merest shreds and patches, and peculiarly challenging is to trace the evolution of religions. Invariably, the process by which one particular orthodoxy succeeded in establishing …
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Sep 17 2012
The truth about Muhammad and Aisha By Myriam Francois-Cerrah, Monday 17 September 2012 09.00 EDT Writing about Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, the Orientalist scholar W Montgomery Watt wrote: “Of all the world’s great men, none has been so much maligned as Muhammad.” His quote seems all the more poignant in light of the …
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