Jan 27 2013
Chuck Hagel is the right man for the job. I’d walk point with him any time By Max Cleland, Sunday 27 January 2013 07.00 EST In 1968, Chuck Hagel was in the jungles of Vietnam. He and his brother, Tom, were grunts – US army infantry. From time to time, Chuck and Tom would …
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Jan 27 2013
Torture is trivial By Robert Jensen, 27 Jan 2013 13:53 The great American torture debate has been rekindled by the nationwide release of Zero Dark Thirty, the hot new movie about the CIA’s hunt for Osama bin Laden. But all the fussing over whether or not the movie condones, glorifies, and/or misrepresents torture is …
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Jan 21 2013
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City. I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with …
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Jan 19 2013
Is it the End of Days for Jeremy Gimpel? By Allison Kaplan Sommer, Jan.19, 2013 | 7:23 PM Until Friday, Jeremy Gimpel was just a name on a list. To be precise, he was number 14 on the list of Knesset candidates for Habayit Hayehudi, the new incarnation of the National Religious Party headed by …
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Jan 19 2013
The controversy around Zero Dark Thirty: As misleading as the film itself By Ramzi Kassem, 19 Jan 2013 15:20 The controversy surrounding Zero Dark Thirty has been as misguided as the film itself, which opened nationwide on Friday. Much of the debate has centred on whether Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow’s latest opus leaves …
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Jan 12 2013
I do have another country By Ithamar Handelman-Smith, Jan.10, 2013 | 2:23 PM Russian-born Hebrew-language writer Yosef Haim Brenner said, “There is no other country” than Israel. But in reality, there are plenty of other countries. These are the facts: The majority of Jews in the world live outside the State of Israel. Nearly three-quarters …
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Jan 12 2013
‘Death of a Prisoner’ By Laura Poitras, January 10, 2013 [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO2gwKLKHOo[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO2gwKLKHOo When President Obama pledged to close the Guantánamo Bay prison on his first day in office as president in 2009, I believed the country had shifted direction. I was wrong. Four years later, President Obama has not only institutionalized Guantánamo and all …
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