If you’re ‘true to yourself’, you might end up finding no real self to be true to By Giles Fraser, Friday 21 June 2013 14.30 EDT Earlier this week, Zoe Williams did a sterling job debunking the latest nonsense from the Girl Guides, who have announced that they will no longer “serve God” but …
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Jun 28 2013
Locked in a spiritual battle
Understanding ‘God’s war’ against abortion and Wendy Davis in Texas By Sarah Posner, Friday 28 June 2013 12.06 EDT Texas state senator Wendy Davis has electrified the pro-choice movement. Not just because of her sheer endurance in a nearly 11-hour filibuster, not just because she stood up to condescension and sexism, and not just …
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Jun 28 2013
Tools of resistance
For Palestine By Susan Abulhawa, 26 Jun 2013 17:32 For once, we won! Mohammad Assaf, that brilliant, joyful, beautiful young man with a voice from heaven sang. And we all hung onto every note, every lyric, every smile and gesture he made on the stage of the Arab Idol contest over the past few …
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Jun 24 2013
Dear John
God’s Dear John Letter To The U.S. By http://www.thegodarticle.com/, 09/13/2011 Dear John and Jane Public, Honestly, don’t fret over it. I get it. Dear God, I get it. You’ve found a new god. Truthfully, I’ve seen this coming for awhile. I tried to deny it. I even tried to change it. (I have to …
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Jun 23 2013
Dismal journey from defeat and humiliation
The three things that always accompany occupation By Robert Fisk, Sunday 23 June 2013 On 20th November 2001, in the Afghan embassy in Islamabad, the Taliban stamped into my passport their very last visa, number 001518, valid only for Kandahar and printed on a paper of varying shades of green. At the top were …
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Jun 16 2013
Before the war
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Jun 14 2013
Embracing an extreme
Hereditary Traits By Jeremy Stahl, Friday, June 14, 2013, at 12:06 PM On Thursday, BuzzFeed Washington, D.C., bureau chief John Stanton published a pair of articles calling out the sons of two separate Republican members of Congress for racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, sexist, and homophobic social media accounts. Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake’s teenage son, Tanner, …
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