Stetson Kennedy, unmasker of the Klan By Diane Roberts, Friday 2 September 2011 18.30 BST … You wouldn’t think it to look at us now, but the United States used to grow a fine crop of progressives. Stetson Kennedy, who died 27 August at the age of 94, was one of the great ones. Political …
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Sep 03 2011
An intriguing excursion
Calling all ultimate missionaries to Israel By Belén Fernández, September 2, 2011 at 12:31 pm … I first learned of an intriguing excursion known as “The Ultimate Mission to Israel” in 2009 while perusing an article on the website of the Jerusalem Post. The article, which outlined Israel’s sudden concern for the fate of UNIFIL …
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Sep 02 2011
Palestine was the factor
For 10 years, we’ve lied to ourselves to avoid asking the one real question By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 3 September 2011 … By their books, ye shall know them. I’m talking about the volumes, the libraries – nay, the very halls of literature – which the international crimes against humanity of 11 September 2001 have …
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Aug 31 2011
A moral pollution that follows
Fear of Islam: a study By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, Aug 30, 2011 11:13 AM … The Center for American Progress has just released an extensive report, Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America, detailing the “funders, organizations, and individuals who have contributed to the discourse on Islamophobia in this country. ” As …
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Aug 31 2011
U.S. officials denied at the time…
WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says By Matthew Schofield | McClatchy Newspapers, Wednesday, August 31, 2011 … A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an …
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Aug 31 2011
Taking advantage of the Holocaust
Polish-Jewish sociologist compares West Bank separation fence to Warsaw Ghetto walls By Roman Frister, 01:05 01.09.11 … Sygmunt Bauman, the Jewish sociologist and one of the greatest philosophers of our time, castigated Israel harshly this week, saying it did not want peace and was afraid of it. Bauman said Israel was “taking advantage of the …
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Aug 31 2011
It hates the federal
The Tea Party has a point about religion and the founding fathers By Theo Hobson, Wednesday 31 August 2011 12.30 BST … There’s a presidential election coming up and, what do you know, the religious right is going to be a pretty important factor. It’s time to brush up on all that separation of church …
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