Dec 14 2012
Zero Dark Thirty: CIA hagiography, pernicious propaganda By Glenn Greenwald, Friday 14 December 2012 10.03 EST I’ve now seen “Zero Dark Thirty”. Before getting to that: the controversy triggered this week by my commentary on the debate over that film was one of the most ridiculous in which I’ve ever been involved. It was …
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Dec 09 2012
So, what did the Muslims do for the Jews? By David J Wasserstein, May 24, 2012 Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth. The argument for it is double. First, in 570 CE, when the Prophet Mohammad was born, the Jews and …
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Dec 07 2012
Christian right enforces GOP senators’ vote against UN disabilities treaty By Nancy L Cohen, Thursday 6 December 2012 10.55 EST I couldn’t sleep at night if I were a senator and did not vote for this. So said Steven Rothstein, a leading advocate for the disabled, to the Boston Globe on the eve of …
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Dec 01 2012
Sod the scientific warnings – here’s why I’ll keep on running By Kerry McCarthy, Saturday 1 December 2012 06.00 EST Bloody science. For a discipline that’s supposed to be all about accuracy and provable facts, you never know where you are with it. Barely a day goes by without the papers reporting a new …
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Nov 27 2012
Dear Friends: Reproduced below, after my personal comments, is a movie review by the much-admired critic A. O. Scott that appeared in the Sunday New York Times this past week. Featured in the write-up is a man whom I was once privileged to know and call a friend — Avraham (“Abe”) Shalom, a former …
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Nov 20 2012
Israel demands our support because it fights its ‘war against terrorists’ in our name By Robert Fisk, Tuesday 20 November 2012 Enough is enough. Now we have even “National Infrastructure” Minister Uzi Landau – one of my favourite dogsbodies in the Israeli government – talking about “collateral damage” and the justification for bombing Hamas’s …
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Nov 20 2012
Do pictures of children killed in Gaza force us to face a gruesome reality? By Giles Fraser, Tuesday 20 November 2012 08.20 EST Let’s start slowly, carefully, with what can be said. Photographs show four small children dead on the cold aluminium surface of the morgue. They are positioned in such a way that …
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