If Trump cares so much about Syrian babies, why is he not condemning the rebels who slaughtered children? By Robert Fisk, Monday 17 April 2017 12:15 BST It was the Mother of all Hypocrisy. Some dead Syrian babies matter, I guess. Other dead Syrian babies don’t matter. One mass murder in Syria two weeks …
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Apr 19 2017
Rights are not bestowed by an oppressor
Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel’s Prisons By Marwan_Barghouti, April 16, 2017 HADARIM PRISON, Israel — Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all …
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Apr 12 2017
More than vigilantes?
8 in 11 By Arkansas Times’ The Observer, April 06, 2017 The state of Arkansas is planning on killing eight men soon, one right after the other, in 11 days. They are doing this to punish them for having killed people. The Observer used to be very much a capital punishment believer. But then, …
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Apr 11 2017
The irony is breath-taking
Deir Yassin Today From http://www.deiryassinremembered.org Although virtually all six million Palestinians in the world know of Deir Yassin, few have ever been there. The site is not identified on post-1948 maps of Israel. But it is not difficult to find. The central part of Deir Yassin is a cluster of buildings now used as a …
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Mar 29 2017
Peace will come with justice
The cult of atheist Zionism posing as Judaism By Rich Siegel, January 1, 2012 This essay was first published in Beyond Tribal Loyalties: Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activists, edited by Avigail Abarbanel (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), used with permission. I consider myself a cult survivor. I was raised in the cult of …
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Mar 29 2017
You got played.
Donald, This I Will Tell You By Maureen Dowd, March 25, 2017 WASHINGTON — Dear Donald, We’ve known each other a long time, so I think I can be blunt. You know how you said at campaign rallies that you did not like being identified as a politician? Don’t worry. No one will ever …
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Mar 27 2017
The greatest case for Atheism
Support for Graham Dear editor: In his last letter (Friday, March 17), “Doc” Crawford thinks that I would have to have “a twisted mind” to believe that God was responsible for electing Donald Trump as our president. Well, he also should say the exact same thing about the Rev. Franklin, who is …
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