Aug 07 2012
The Elephant in the Map Room By Frank Jacobs, August 7, 2012, 12:43 pm My better half: “Are you sure about this? They’ll kill you.” Me: “Sure I’m sure. You can hardly expect me to write a series called Borderlines, about the strange lines that people draw to distinguish ‘us’ from ‘them,’ and then …
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Aug 06 2012
White Terrorism at Oak Creek: The Paranoid Style in American Violence By Juan Cole, 08/06/2012 We still have only rumors about Wade Michael Page, the gunman who walked into a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin near Milwaukee and opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon (weapons that should be illegal) on men women and …
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Aug 06 2012
Could Syria’s Current Predicament Have Been Avoided Over A Decade Ago? By Ehsani, Friday, August 3rd, 2012 Like nearly 25 million other Syrians, one cannot help but feel stunned and exasperated by the events engulfing our country. How did we get here? How can a country long associated with “stability” suddenly unravel and enter …
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Aug 05 2012
Lambs to the settlers’ slaughter, screaming and unheard By Amira Hass, Aug.05, 2012 There is still a bruise under Ibrahim Bani Jaber’s left eye. The blows his brother Jawdat received to his right ear didn’t leave any marks, but they still make his head feel heavy. During our meeting at their home in the …
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Aug 02 2012
The Pandering Game By Raouf J. Halaby, August 01, 2012 The season of Pandering is upon us, and by now the routine is all too familiar. While negative ads, fund raising efforts in all their forms, email and robo phone calls, misinformation, and pandering have become the norm, to be elected, aspiring candidates have …
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Aug 01 2012
Why Not in Vegas? By Thomas L. Friedman, July 31, 2012 I’ll make this quick. I have one question and one observation about Mitt Romney’s visit to Israel. The question is this: Since the whole trip was not about learning anything but about how to satisfy the political whims of the right-wing, super pro-Bibi …
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Jul 31 2012
Mitt Romney Just Played The Race Card By Peter S. Goodman, 07/30/2012 6:08 pm Mitt Romney’s latest brush with a quotation requiring further explanation is really an act of political genius — albeit, one of the cravenly cynical and despicable variety. By standing in Jerusalem on Monday and declaring that Jews are richer than …
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