Dec 03 2015
What If We Really Are Defeating ISIS? By Jeffrey Hutchins, 2015 As soon as the first big snowstorm of 2015 hit, there were people who said it is proof that “global warming” is a hoax. Of course, it’s no such thing. One storm, one cold spell, even one lasting many days, or even one brutal …
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Dec 01 2015
During our long, rainy drive home after Thanksgiving, my wife and I got bored and started channel-hopping on the radio. We stopped for a while on the “Patriot” channel, long enough to catch up with what’s going on in the paranoid, squishy fringes of Der Homeland’s right-wing. Or what we call the mainstream of the …
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Nov 25 2015
Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It By Kamel Daoud, Nov. 20, 2015 Black Daesh, white Daesh. The former slits throats, kills, stones, cuts off hands, destroys humanity’s common heritage and despises archaeology, women and non-Muslims. The latter is better dressed and neater but does the same things. The Islamic State; Saudi Arabia. …
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Nov 25 2015
How the United States helped create the Islamic State By Juan Cole, November 23 Did the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 lead to our current crisis over the Islamic State? The question has been posed baldly in this campaign season, as when a young woman at a campaign rally said to GOP …
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Nov 23 2015
Whoa there, David Cameron! Haste and rhetoric is no recipe for peace By Robert Fisk, Sunday 22 November 2015 19:28 BST Eisenhower famously sent some brusque advice to Anthony Eden in 1956 when he decided that Britain’s deceitful war in Egypt should come to an end. “Whoa, boy!” were his words. And they should …
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Nov 21 2015
Dear editor, Oh my little brother, where art thou NOW?! Week after week your letters, pregnant with petulant, prattling preachery raging against the black man in the White House, parade your naked paranoia and your ponderous morality for all to see. Who anointed you and your amen corner arbiters of who is — …
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Nov 20 2015
Stories My Father Told Me By Helen Zughaib with Elia Kamal Zughaib, November/December 2015 Charity and Compassion When Jiddu told my father this story, he prefaced it by saying his father had told it to him and he must never forget it, and that is how he told it to me. Once there …
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