Jan 06 2013
A letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty’s apology for torture By Naomi Wolf, Friday 4 January 2013 12.40 EST Dear Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker was a beautiful, brave film; many young women in film were inspired as they watched you become the first woman ever to win an Oscar for directing. …
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Jan 04 2013
The myth of the murderous Muslim By Haroon Moghul, 03 Jan 2013 10:02 Muslims are subversive jihadists. The Middle East is perpetually unstable. “Islam has bloody borders.” If you’ve already made up your mind, you’ll find a way to twist the facts to support your conclusion. And if the facts don’t do the job, …
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Jan 01 2013
5 Islam-bashing Republicans to watch in 2013 By Alex Kane, Tuesday, Jan 1, 2013 08:00 AM CST When Muslim-American organizations and activists concerned with Islamophobia woke up the day after the election, on November 7, they were elated. Key members of what had been dubbed the House Republican “Islamophobia caucus”had been voted out of …
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Jan 01 2013
Does Arab progress founder on an ossified language? By Robert Fisk, Monday 31 December 2012 I’ve heard all kinds of reasons for the Arab-Israeli failure to agree on UN Security Council Resolution 242 – because the Arabic text calls upon Israel to withdraw from ‘the lands occupied by Israel in 1967’ (including the West Bank, …
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Dec 31 2012
Death by brown skin By Wajahat Ali, Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:24 AM CST Sunando Sen, a 46-year-old Indian immigrant, recently opened a small copying and printing business in New York City’s Upper West Side with his hard-earned savings. Described by friends as “very educated” and “so quiet, so gentle, so nice,” Sen’s American …
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Dec 30 2012
Israel lobby should not have veto over US president’s cabinet By Michael Brün, 30 Dec 2012 12:19 If you care about the direction of this country but think you don’t have time to pay attention to what the Israel lobby is doing, you may want to think again. This is no conspiracy theory – …
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Dec 29 2012
At Israeli school, anyone can learn to be a prophet By The Associated Press, Dec.29, 2012 7:00 PM Instead of long beards and robes, they wear track suits and T-shirts. Their tablets are electronic, not hewn of stone, and they hold smartphones, not staffs. They may not look the part, but this ragtag group …
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