Jun 22 2011
When Muhammad Ali took the real heavy weight By Dave Zirin, 21 Jun 2011 13:50 … In an era defined by endless war, we should recognise a day in history that wasn’t celebrated on Capitol Hill or in the White House. On June 20, 1967, the great Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston for refusing induction …
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Jun 20 2011
When the Messiah comes, Israel will deport him By Bradley Burston, 11:22 06.01.11 … When the Messiah comes, he will be without papers. When the Messiah comes, he will be taken into a small room, off-white and chilled, with one gray metal chair at each side of a gray metal desk. When the Messiah comes, …
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Jun 20 2011
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Jun 19 2011
(Not) spreading the wealth The Washington Post, Saturday, June 18, 2011 … Growing share of income for the rich Inequality in the U.S. has has grown steadily since the 1970s, following a flat period after World War II. In 2008, the wealthiest 10 percent earned almost the same amount of income as the rest of …
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Jun 19 2011
Lies, damn lies, and reports of battlefield atrocities By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday, 19 June 2011 … In war, accounts of atrocities need to be treated with scepticism. Surveying a battlefield where he had once fought, the great Confederate general Stonewall Jackson turned to an aide and asked: “Did you ever think, sir, what an opportunity …
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Jun 19 2011
Face the facts – Syria is an apartheid state By Nick Cohen, Sunday 19 June 2011 … For a tyrant whose forces took 13-year-old Hamza Ali al-Khateeb, burned him, mutilated him, shattered his knee caps, cut off his penis and sent his corpse to his parents as a warning against participating in opposition politics, Bashar …
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Jun 17 2011
We can’t tell the victims to leave mass graves in peace By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 18 June 2011 … The Syrians say they discovered a mass grave this week containing the bodies of murdered soldiers outside a town called Jisr al-Shughour. “Armed gangs” are to blame, according to Syrian state television. Well, maybe. Or perhaps …
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