Category: Culture

Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad

Canadian teenagers send Lego man into space By Shiv Malik, Thursday 26 January 2012 11.17 EST … [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQwLmGR6bPA[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQwLmGR6bPA Two Canadian teenagers have sent a Lego man into the outer reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere using a home-stitched parachute and equipment found on Craigslist. Two weeks ago, Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, attached …

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Something faintly fascist

The present stands no chance against the past By Robert Fisk, Saturday 28 January 2012 … The Palestinians are not only, it seems, an “invented people” – courtesy of Newt Gingrich – but the only Arabs on the Mediterranean not to enjoy a Spring or an Awakening or even a Winter. And Benjamin Netanyahu has …

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A bauble of thanks

When a refusal is more noble than an honour By Terence Blacker, Friday 27 January 2012 … Now and then, it is possible to catch a glimpse of how the British establishment works. These moments are rare and fleeting because an unwritten code of confidentiality, of the sort shared by members of the same club, …

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Dangerous transition

The Arab Spring, US foreign policy, the Status-Quo Lobby and the Dream Palace of the Zionists By Issandr El Amrani, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 … I’d like to touch upon America and Egypt, because I’ve seen a lot of hand-wringing in American newspapers about the future of that relationship and a sense of misplaced buyers’ …

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Hatred and division among us

Why We Must Learn America’s Islamic History By Engy Abdelkader, 01/25/2012 11:00 am … “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue…”  So we were taught in primary school. But, did you know that the captains of two of the three small Spanish ships comprising Columbus’s fleet were in fact Muslim? Martin Alonso Pinzon the captain …

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Imminent threat of extinction

We’ve been here before – and it suits Israel that we never forget ‘Nuclear Iran’ By Robert Fisk, Wednesday 25 January 2012 … Turning round a story is one of the most difficult tasks in journalism – and rarely more so than in the case of Iran. Iran, the dark revolutionary Islamist menace. Shia Iran, …

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They just aren’t buying

Carville to GOP: You have a disaster on your hands By James Carville, 2:41 PM EST, Sat January 21, 2012 … Memo to Republican Establishment: I would send this memo to each of you individually, but I’m not sure exactly who you are. I’ve been told that you exist and that people like my colleagues …

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