Nov 03 2011
America’s itch to brawl has a new target – but bombs can’t conquer Iran By Simon Jenkins, Thursday 3 November 2011 17.30 EDT … This time there will be no excuses. Plans for British support for an American assault on Iran, revealed in today’s Guardian, are appalling. They would risk what even the “wars of …
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Nov 03 2011
Welcoming Palestine to UNESCO By Richard Falk, 02 Nov 2011 11:29 … It may not ease the daily pain of occupation and blockade or the endless anguish of refugee status and exile or the continual humiliations of discrimination and second class citizenship, but the admission of Palestine to membership in UNESCO is for so many …
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Oct 30 2011
You Want to Track Me? Here You Go, F.B.I. By Hasan M. Elahi, October 29, 2011 … ON June 19, 2002, I ran into a bit of a problem that turned my life upside down. It happened at the Detroit airport as I was entering the country. I realized something wasn’t right when the immigration …
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Oct 30 2011
Brennan Manning: All Is Grace: God Loves You As You Are By John Blase, 10/28/11 09:01 PM ET … Scripts. We all live by them. A few of us are hopelessly devoted to one while the rest of us cut quite the syncretic rug. These scripts are always interesting, especially in how they describe our …
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Oct 30 2011
The protesters seem more adult than politicians and plutocrats By Andrew Rawnsley, Saturday 29 October 2011 … The mayor of London demands a law against it to stop tent villages “erupting like boils” across the capital. If you lived like Boris, you too might be a bit paranoid about boils. The prime minister interrupts a …
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Oct 29 2011
The Limping Middle Class By Robert B. Reich, September 3, 2011 … THE 5 percent of Americans with the highest incomes now account for 37 percent of all consumer purchases, according to the latest research from Moody’s Analytics. That should come as no surprise. Our society has become more and more unequal. When so much …
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Oct 29 2011
America’s Exploding Pipe Dream By Chareles M. Blow, October 28, 2011 … We are slowly — and painfully — being forced to realize that we are no longer the America of our imaginations. Our greatness was not enshrined. Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we …
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