Dec 19 2011
Why we’re celebrating hope this Christmas By Victor Batarseh, Thursday 15/12/2011 … It all started in Bethlehem. From here, the Christmas message was revealed to mankind; a message of joy, love and peace. And here we are today, after more than 2,000 years, reviving this eternal remembrance in faith and love, happily cheering and singing …
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Dec 18 2011
Merry Christmas (or click here for your choice of alternative winter holidays) to all, from high atop the Fidel Castro observation tower, overlooking the United Nations penal facility for war criminals (formerly known as Guantanamo Bay detention camp)… Note: This is a slight adaptation (for the holidays) of an earlier work titled “Spandau Reborn,” a …
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Dec 17 2011
Trial of the Will By Christopher Hitchens, January 2012 … Death has this much to be said for it: You don’t have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free. —Kingsley Amis Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn Suicide remarks are torn From the fool’s gold …
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Dec 17 2011
Postscript: Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011 By Christopher Buckley, December 16, 2011 … We were friends for more than thirty years, which is a long time but, now that he is gone, seems not nearly long enough. I was rather nervous when I first met him, one night in London in 1977, along with his great friend …
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Dec 16 2011
The parable of the allotments By Julian Baggini, Thursday 15 December 2011 12.53 EST … Last week I challenged the idea that religiosity is more about practice than belief with evidence that most religious people appear to have a large number of traditional beliefs which they take to be important. However, I suggested that there …
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Dec 16 2011
Last Post in Iraq: this is the death knell of the American empire By George Galloway, Thursday 15 December 2011 09.30 EST … So the Yanks are going home. Apart from the thousands of their servicemen and women whose lifeblood they are leaving in the sands of Iraq, and the tens of thousands too maimed …
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Dec 16 2011
Was Democracy Just a Moment? By Robert D. Kaplan, Friday, December 16, 2011 … IN the fourth century A.D. Christianity’s conquest of Europe and the Mediterranean world gave rise to the belief that a peaceful era in world politics was at hand, now that a consensus had formed around an ideology that stressed the sanctity …
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