The day a Cockburn set the White House aflame By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 02 September 2012 As a correspondent in Washington 20 years ago, I received occasional calls from local television stations on the anniversary of the burning of the White House by a British force in August 1814. The reason they wanted a …
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Sep 03 2012
Moral superiority is often asserted
William Hague is wrong… we must own up to our brutal colonial past By Owen Jones, Monday 03 September 2012 Remember all that national soul-searching and self-flagellation over Empire and all the horrors committed in its name? No, me neither. But this is the fictional Britain that has been conjured up by our Foreign …
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Sep 03 2012
What should we teach our children?
Why I had no choice but to spurn Tony Blair By Desmond Tutu, Saturday 1 September 2012 The immorality of the United States and Great Britain’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003, premised on the lie that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, has destabilised and polarised the world to a greater extent than …
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Sep 02 2012
Not everything bounces back
Last edited by Monsieur d’Nalgar on September 9, 2012 at 4:18 pm. 1965 was an interesting year. The first American combat troops were sent to South Vietnam, Dylan went electric, Muhammad Ali knocked out Sonny Liston, MLK marched from Selma to Montgomery, and the first Charlie Brown Christmas aired on CBS. And by the …
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Aug 27 2012
Keeping clean is a dirty business
The Syrian army would like to appear squeaky clean. It isn’t By Robert Fisk, Monday 27 August 2012 Every day, a new massacre is reported in Syria. Yesterday, it was Daraya. Slaughter by Syrian troops, according to those opposed to Bashar al-Assad. Slaughter by Bashar’s “terrorist” opponents, the Syrian army said, producing the wife …
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Aug 25 2012
Dangerous rightwing ideologies
The importance of the Anders Breivik verdict reaches beyond Norway By Tad Tietze, Friday 24 August 2012 15.00 EDT There are many reasons to welcome the verdict in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik: that he is sane and legally responsible for the murder of 77 people – mostly members of the Norwegian Labour …
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Aug 21 2012
An ethos that will continue
A good Jew hates Arabs By Zvi Bar’el, Aug.22, 2012 3:18 AM The young criminals who mercilessly beat Jamal Julani and his cousins simply because they’re Arabs don’t live in settlements, haven’t occupied any cities and haven’t taken control of any terraced hills in the territories. Perhaps they participated in one of those tours …
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