May 13 2011
Why no outcry over these torturing tyrants? By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 14 May 2011 … Christopher Hill, a former US secretary of state for east Asia who was ambassador to Iraq – and usually a very obedient and un-eloquent American diplomat – wrote the other day that “the notion that a dictator can claim the …
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May 13 2011
The eternal appeal of conspiracy theory By Jeff Winkler, Friday 13 May 2011 21.00 BST … The US – with the help of a few Navy Seals – found the elusive Osama bin Laden, shot him in the face and then deep-sixed the diabolical diabetic somewhere in the Arabian Sea. While the rest of the …
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May 12 2011
John McCain to Bush apologists: Stop lying about Bin Laden and torture By Greg Sargent, 12:09 PM ET, 05/12/2011 … This is getting really good. As noted below, John McCain in an Op ed this morning skewered the claim that the killing of Bin Laden vindicates torture. But just now, on the Senate floor, he …
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May 12 2011
May 21, 2011: Harold Camping and the apocalypse of my youth By Jason Boyett, 08:35 AM ET, 05/12/2011 … Harold Camping, the 89 year-old Christian radio broadcaster, has announced that the “rapture” of Christian believers will throw the world into chaos on May 21, 2011, followed five months later by the total destruction of the …
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May 11 2011
End times theology: an insider’s guide By Brian McLaren, May 10, 2011 1:08 PM … I grew up in a Christian tradition (a young one, actually, having started in the 1830’s) called Dispensationalism. Although we shied away from predicting specific dates, we sang and preached and even made scary movies about the coming “Rapture,” Great Tribulation, …
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May 09 2011
The question: Does Osama bin Laden’s capture justify torture? By Diane Roberts, Monday 9 May 2011 16.54 BST … First, let’s call it by its proper name. Waterboarding is not “robust questioning” or “enhanced interrogation techniques” or any of the other sinister euphemisms employed by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and John Yoo. It’s torture. It …
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May 09 2011
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-G5D7bLx1s[/tube] THE LATEST FILM FROM UPHEAVAL PRODUCTIONS… In the Fall of 2009 a group of US veterans and war resisters traveled to Israel/Palestine to meet with their Israeli counterparts in an effort to strengthen connections and share experiences. Occupation Has No Future uses this trip as a lens to study Israeli militarism, examine the occupation …
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