Dec 29 2012
Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy By Naomi Wolf, Saturday 29 December 2012 09.58 EST It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, …
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Dec 29 2012
The Jewish people’s ultimate treasure hunt By Ofer Aderet, Dec.28, 2012 9:12 AM “Just imagine a group of blind people who encounter an elephant for the first time in their lives. They place their hands on it and touch it in order to understand what kind of animal it is. But each of them …
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Dec 28 2012
Hagel, the lobby and the limits of power By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, 28 Dec 2012 11:43 You have to do no more than watch this attack ad produced by the neoconservative pressure group the Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) to understand the significance of Chuck Hagel’s possible nomination as US secretary of defence. The …
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Dec 27 2012
Why, God? By Maureen Dowd, December 25, 2012 When my friend Robin was dying, she asked me if I knew a priest she could talk to who would not be, as she put it, “too judgmental.” I knew the perfect man, a friend of our family, a priest conjured up out of an old …
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Dec 24 2012
The idolatry of the gun By Valerie Elverton Dixon, 06:49 PM ET, 12/21/2012 In their first extended statements since the mass shooting in Newton, Conn., National Rifle Association representatives, advocated armed guards in schools. In their mind, this was the most immediate step that the nation ought to take to protect our children. But …
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Dec 23 2012
A word of advice about the Middle East – we’ve reached the ‘tipping point’ with cliches By Robert Fisk, Sunday 23 December 2012 Remember the days when we thought Egypt’s path to democracy was a done deal? Western-trained Mohamed Morsi had invited the people to come and meet him in Hosni Mubarak’s former presidential palace, the …
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Dec 23 2012
What would Jesus think of Christmas today? By Yasmin Alibhai Brown, Sunday 23 December 2012 A young man ran after me and tried in vain to get some change as I dashed through the doors of Bafta in Piccadilly on 10 December, my birthday. I was late, you see, for a dinner there, and …
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