Apr 28 2013
How to debunk George W. Bush’s attempts at revisionism By Alex Seitz-Wald, Saturday, Apr 27, 2013 08:00 AM CDT Every dog goes to heaven and every former president should get a shot at repairing his legacy, especially when it’s as tattered as George W. Bush’s. With the opening of his presidential library and museum …
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Apr 27 2013
Syria and sarin gas: US claims have a very familiar ring By Robert Fisk, Sunday 28 April 2013 Is there any way of escaping the theatre of chemical weapons? First, Israeli “military intelligence” says that Bashar al-Assad’s forces have used/have probably used/might have used/could use chemical weapons. Then Chuck Hagel, the US Defence Secretary, …
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Apr 17 2013
As a Palestinian, I refuse to be tokenised and I refuse to have dialogue. By the lower case arab, 17th Apr 2013 I cannot stay silent for much longer. I cannot contain my feelings about a certain word for any longer. The ‘D word’. That dreadful D word. That deflective D word. The word …
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Apr 17 2013
450,000 Palestinian Refugees face Dire Restrictions in Lebanon By Raed Ayad, 8th Mar 2013 Within ten minutes, not taking into account Beirut’s chaotic traffic, one can travel from the Mediterranean equivalence of the Champs-Élysées to an area resembling some of the roughest slums in the world. The living situation faced by those in the Palestinian …
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Apr 17 2013
Apartheid of the consciousness By Zvi Bar’el, Apr.17, 2013 The workers at the immaculate Jaffa butcher shop had their hands full on the eve of Independence Day. Packaged trays of kebab were being panic-bought as if the Iranian bomb was already on the way; dozens of veal and lamb skewers were piled up like …
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Apr 16 2013
It’s time to bury not just Thatcher – but Thatcherism By Seumas Milne, Tuesday 16 April 2013 17.20 EDT They have only themselves to blame. Protests were always likely at any official sendoff for the most socially destructive prime minister in modern British history. But by turning Margaret Thatcher’s funeral into a state-funded Tory …
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Apr 16 2013
Remarks to the Cleveland City Club By Robert F. Kennedy, April 5, 1968 This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity to speak briefly to you about this mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every …
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