Jul 24 2010
Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah ‘worse than Hiroshima’ By Patrick Cockburn, Saturday, 24 July 2010: Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki …
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Jul 21 2010
Attacking Muslims Is In Vogue Again Among Conservatives By Jason Linkins, huffingtonpost.com, 07-21-10 01:10 PM (updated 07-21-10 08:54 PM) …Glenn Beck has decided that he cannot tolerate the thought of American Muslims riding around on rollercoasters for fun! This is what Beck bleated out to the world, via email: At the very minimum this is …
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Jul 11 2010
Friends: Over the past few days, there has been some interesting debate going on about the relative merits of the ‘spy swap’ concluded with the Russians. I have my own views of the case, and thought I’d share them with you. I’ve already sent these views to a number of former CIA colleagues and to …
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Jul 04 2010
By Jacques d’Nalgar, Fourth of July, 2010 This I write, Octavius Fuluvim, humble servant of our Lord Jesus Christ, on the august occasion of a rare conjunction of our weekly gathering of Roman believers with the empire’s annual festivities honoring the she-wolf’s suckling of Romulus and Remus. It is a faithful account of all that …
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Jun 21 2010
This is a nearly 10-minute video (thanks Marjorie). I know we’re not allowed to make such comparisons, but think of 1937 Guernica and the infamous Warsaw Ghetto from 1940 – 1943: http://www.theplainlanguagereview.com/2010/02/gaza-in-plain-language.html
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Jun 20 2010
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Iraq crisis By Al Staggs, The Baptist Standard, March 3, 2003 Note: The following commentary was first published in the weekly newsjournal of Texas Baptists on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq by US forces and smaller contingents from the UK, Australia, and Poland. I’ve been involved for …
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Jun 12 2010
Fisk, in today’s piece on how a Canadian paper is diverting unwelcome attention on Israel’s latest brutality by reminding readers of Hitler and the Holocaust: As usual, we who speak out against the ruthlessness of Israel’s army – as, of course, we do against the Arabs – are anti-Semites. Remember the Holocaust. Remember Our Guilt. …
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