Category: Culture

Mother of all wars

The Koch Brothers By Bob Abeshouse, 27 Oct 2011 14:33 … Charles and David Koch are each worth about $25bn, which makes them the fourth richest Americans. When you combine their fortunes, they are the third wealthiest people in the world. Radical libertarians who use their money to oppose government and virtually all regulation as …

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That others may simply live

A Devotion for Wall Street By Shane Claiborne, 10/25/11 11:20 AM ET … A reporter recently asked me, “As a Christian leader, does your faith have anything to say about Wall Street?”  I said, “How much time do you have?”   My faith has a lot to say about Wall Street. Theologian Karl Barth said, “We …

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An alliance deepened by prejudice

India and Israel: a friendship deepened by prejudice By Kapil Komireddi, Tuesday 25 October 2011 06.25 EDT … In 1974, the New York Times journalist Bernard Weinraub described India as “the loneliest post in the world” for Israeli diplomats. Having voted against the creation of Israel at the UN in 1947, India held back from …

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A debt to pay

Lessons in humanity from a Libyan family, a tale of Dickens from Cairo – and the wrong shark By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 22 October 2011 … It’s an ill wind, etc. Today my thoughts are not with the Gaddafi family but with Bassam and Saniya al-Ghossain, whose daughter Raafat was killed in Libya on 15 …

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Death porn

Even Muammar Gaddafi deserved a private death By Mark Lawson,Friday 21 October 2011 08.30 EDT … Western foreign policy in recent years has combined with the democratisation of filmed images to create a stark new problem for media organisations: the existence of images of regime-changed leaders before, during and after the moment of death. Scenes …

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We loved him. We hated him.

You can’t blame Gaddafi for thinking he was one of the good guys By Robert Fisk, Friday, 21 October 2011 … We loved him. We hated him. Then we loved him again. Blair slobbered over him. Then we hated him again. Then La Clinton slobbered over her BlackBerry and we really hated him even more …

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Roll-a-pope

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOEIugOfRZ8[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOEIugOfRZ8 Pope, 84, opts for wheeled platform at Mass By Francis X. Rocca, Monday, October 17, 1:58 PM … VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI used a wheeled platform to move up the main aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica before Mass on Sunday (Oct. 16), in what his spokesman said was a measure to “reduce …

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