Excerpts from a speech that never was… JFK’s Trade Mart Speech, to be delivered the day he was assassinated, November 22, 1963. … This link between leadership and learning is not only essential at the community level. It is even more indispensable in world affairs. Ignorance and misinformation can handicap the progress of …
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Nov 17 2013
On the wilder shores of American Christianity
George W Bush’s new ‘crusade’: converting Jews to Christianity By Andrew Brown, November 14, 2013 Some people think George W Bush did as much as he could to bring about Armageddon with his earlier interventions in the Middle East. But not the man himself, apparently. He has signed up for a fundraising event for …
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Nov 13 2013
I didn’t do anything wrong
Malala and Nabila: worlds apart By Murtaza Hussain, 01 Nov 2013 09:57 On October 24, 2012 a Predator drone flying over North Waziristan came upon eight-year-old Nabila Rehman, her siblings, and their grandmother as they worked in a field beside their village home. Her grandmother, Momina Bibi, was teaching the children how to pick …
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Nov 08 2013
I believe in change
Russell Brand: we deserve more from our democratic system By Russell Brand, Tuesday 5 November 2013 12.57 EST I’ve had an incredible week since I spoke from the heart, some would say via my arse, on Paxman. I’ve had slaps on the back, fist bumps, cheers and hugs while out and about, cock-eyed offers …
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Nov 05 2013
The ongoing business of slaughtering the other
Imploding the Myth of Israel By Chris Hedges, Nov 4, 2013 Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that rivals the brutality and racism of apartheid South Africa. Its democracy—which was always exclusively for Jews—has been …
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Oct 31 2013
This is a good start?
Really?! A friend of mine wrote me early this morning, clearly angry about some outrageous Facebook flummery she had just been exposed to. Here’s how she started: So explain to me HOW the same birther folks can justify Ted Cruz being even considered for the Presidency? Don’t know if you looked at the “poll” on Tea …
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Oct 29 2013
Listen to America
Dear editor: Listen to America. Stop ObamaCare at all cost. Impeach Obama, get him out of there. He is destroying America. I don’t see why you people can’t see we don’t want a dictator. Is he the anti-Christ? We won’t vote for you if you don’t listen. Listen to America. Brenda Andersen Hot Springs …
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