Category: Foreign Policy

The oil’s the thing

Why do we cosy up to these Wahhabi tyrants? By Yasmin Alibhai Brown, Sunday 17 March 2013   OMG, what was she thinking? Camilla, wife of our future king, wore a flimsy, unsecured headscarf on her trip to Saudi Arabia. It rebelliously slipped off and almost uncovered all her hair! According to the strict, conservative …

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What is a child’s life worth?

The cost of war must be measured by human tragedy, not artefacts By Robert Fisk, Sunday 17 March 2013   What is a child’s life worth against all the antiquities of Syria? Any reflection of Syria’s architectural disasters must include this question.  The child, a humanitarian must say, is worth all the columns of Palmyra …

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Ground zero for Dominionist Christianity

The defence of freedom begins in the military By KC Boyd, 17 Mar 2013 13:01   The first protest rally since the Vietnam era took take place on Friday, March 8 outside the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA). This time the focus was not on the subject of war but on the pervasive Christian …

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The very idea

On Questioning the Jewish State By Joseph Levine, March 9, 2013, 7:30 pm   I was raised in a religious Jewish environment, and though we were not strongly Zionist, I always took it to be self-evident that “Israel has a right to exist.”  Now anyone who has debated the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will have encountered this …

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What was common was humanity

Rachel Never Died By Aisha Aijaz, Mar 16th, 2012   Rachel Corrie, beautiful soul, born in Olympia, Washington was no ordinary child, no ordinary 23 year old student and no ordinary human being. And people, who are extraordinary, never die. They live for ever in the hearts and minds of their followers. They give direction …

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The legality of retroactive abortion

  A writer’s up, down digits   Dear editor: I wonder if we letter writers have the privilege of expressing our own “Thumbs-ups” and “Thumbs-downs.” I would give a Thumbs-up to our tough Arkansas Republicans for having a lot more mettle and tenacity than the RINOs in Washington for protecting our unborn children. By the …

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The most dangerous enemy

Bradley Manning’s American dream, if only… By Mark LeVine, 04 Mar 2013 15:10   Bradley Manning obviously still believes in America, in a country that cares about the rule of law, fairness and human rights for all. His naivete might well cost him his freedom for the rest of his life. Reading through Manning’s statement …

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