Dec 07 2013
Mandela’s mission is not yet complete By Gideon Levy, Dec. 8, 2013 2:30 AM South African President Nelson Mandela, in his address for International Solidarity Day with the Palestinian People on December 4, 1997, said: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” And Prime Minister Benjamin …
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Dec 07 2013
Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel. By Musa Okwonga, Friday 6 December 2013 Dear revisionists, Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel. Over the next few days you will try so, so hard to make him something he was not, and you will fail. You will try to smooth him, to sandblast him, …
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Dec 07 2013
Follow Mandela’s example, and roar with laughter at all this rightwing fawning By Marina Hyde, Friday 6 December 2013 12.05 EST Asked for his feelings on meeting the Spice Girls in 1997 – shortly after Mel B had compared their “girl power quest” with the anti-apartheid movement – Nelson Mandela obliged. “I don’t want …
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Dec 06 2013
Our Freedom Seems Possible Because You Reached Yours By Marwan Barghouti, 06 Dec 2013 “During the long years of my own struggle, I had the occasion to think many times of you, dear Nelson Mandela. Even more since my arrest in 2002. I think of a man who spent 27 years in a prison …
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Nov 26 2013
Obama Crushes the Neocons By Michael Tomasky, November 25th 20135:45 am Well, the ayatollah appears to have lent his provisional support to the historic U.S.-Iran accord announced Saturday night. In a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said the deal “can be the basis for further intelligent actions.” Now we just …
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Nov 24 2013
JFK and the day I took one quick shot in Dallas… By Dom Joly, Sunday 24 November 2013 I’ve spent the last week overdosing on Kennedy porn. I’ve watched so many documentaries about what happened on that awful day in Dallas 50 years ago that my own head is ready to explode. I feel …
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Nov 23 2013
UNICEF isn’t anti-Semitic By Gideon Levy, Mar. 10, 2013 2:45 AM It has already been met here with a typical shrug of the shoulders, the report by the United Nations Children Fund declaring that Palestinian children detained by the Israel Defense Forces are subject to widespread, systematic ill-treatment that violates international law. Now it’s …
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