Oct 29 2012
Just remember Rome Dear editor: Attention, people of America. Do you love your country? I mean really love it? We have a man in Washington, D.C., who claims to be a Democrat. John Kennedy was a Democrat. Bill Clinton was a Democrat. This man is no Democrat. I grew up in a …
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Oct 28 2012
Whichever of Obama or Romney wins, US dealings with the Arab world will change By Robert Fisk, Sunday 28 October 2012 After last week’s Obama-Romney love-fest for Israel, the Arabs have been slowly deciding which of the two men would be best for the Middle East. It looks like Barack Obama is their man; …
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Oct 28 2012
How US drones forge as many foes as they kill By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 28 October 2012 Drones or their equivalent have long attracted political and military leaders dreaming of the surgical removal of their enemies. In 1812, the governor of Moscow, Count Rostopchin, devised a plan to get a hot-air balloon to hover …
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Oct 27 2012
Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war By Edward Wilson, Saturday 27 October 2012 06.00 EDT If you were born before 27 October 1962, Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov saved your life. It was the most dangerous day in history. An American spy plane had been shot down over Cuba while another U2 …
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Oct 23 2012
Jordan through evangelical Christian eyes – Disneyland with conversions By Becky Garrison, Tuesday 23 October 2012 03.30 EDT I took a press trip round Jordan with a group of mostly evangelical Christian writers from the US last month. I had visited before, with a largely Catholic and Anabaptist group, who had seen their visit …
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Oct 22 2012
If massacres like Cromwell’s avert suffering, perhaps they can be justified By Andrew Brown, Friday 19 October 2012 03.29 EDT The pleasure of reading history is that it’s so much more unexpected than the news. Who would have thought that one of the great philosophers of the enlightenment defended Oliver Cromwell’s massacres in Ireland? …
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Oct 22 2012
Pigs to the Lake: The Evangelical Exorcism By Morgan Guyton, 10/18/2012 5:15 pm In Mark 5, Jesus casts a legion of demons out of a man chained to a graveyard by sending them into a herd of pigs, who race with fury to a cliff and throw themselves in a lake. This event is …
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