Feb 04 2012
The cynical world of America’s private prisons By Sadhbh Walshe, Friday 3 February 2012 17.08 EST … In the past few decades, changes in sentencing laws and get-tough-on-crime policies have led to an explosion in America’s prison population. Funding this incarceration binge has been an enormous drain on taxpayer dollars, with some states now spending …
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Feb 03 2012
An attack on Tehran would be madness. So don’t rule it out By Robert Fisk, Saturday 04 February 2012 … If Israel really attacks Iran this year, it – and the Americans – will be more dotty than their enemies think. True, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a crackpot, but then so is Avigdor Lieberman, who is …
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Feb 03 2012
Equality for Palestinians? Israel won’t have it By Ben White, Friday 3 February 2012 07.25 EST … The presence of a few Palestinian members in the Knesset (MKs) is often touted as a sign of Israel’s robust democracy. Yet elected representatives of the Palestinian community inside Israel face growing harassment by the state, by fellow …
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Feb 03 2012
Still Britain rattles sabres. Nothing has been learned from Afghanistan By Simon Jenkins, Thursday 2 February 2012 16.00 EST … The Afghan war, the longest in US history, is “scheduled to end” a year early, according to the Pentagon. Wars these days run to electoral timetables. The endgame is couched not as victory, let alone …
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Feb 02 2012
Why Mitt Romney is ‘not concerned’ about the poor By Amy Goodman, Thursday 2 February 2012 12.53 EST … Although Mitt Romney has yet to win a majority in a Republican primary, he won big in Florida. After he and the pro-Romney Super Pacs flooded the airwaves with millions of dollars’ worth of ads in …
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Feb 01 2012
Afghanistan: the big lie Guardian editorial, Wednesday 1 February 2012 18.04 EST … Joseph Goebbels said that if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The big lie told repeatedly about the war in Afghanistan is that the international security assistance force (Isaf) and the …
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Feb 01 2012
What the Occupy movement must learn from Sundance By Naomi Wolf, Tuesday 31 January 2012 13.47 EST … So, late last year, I said – to some controversy here – that the violent crackdown against the Occupy movement in the United States represented the first salvos of a civil war initiated by political and allied …
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