MAGA Election Violence Absent—For Now By Elaine Shannon, November 9 2022 Anybody heading for Phoenix to snarl traffic for Kari Lake and Blake Masters? To Harrisburg to storm the state capitol for Mehmet Oz? To Atlanta to burn it all down for Herschel Walker? So far, no. FBI-Homeland Security warnings of violence around the …
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Aug 03 2022
When a tangled web woven unravels
1950s U.S. Foreign Policy Looms Large in Lebanon By Jacob Boswell, July 29, 2022 The Cold War may be over, but the legacy of containment looms large over Lebanon. For decades, the U.S. has been the single largest financial supporter of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), in a bid to balance Iran’s influence in …
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Jan 30 2022
Thank you for your service
‘I didn’t know who I was any more’: how CIA torture pushed me to the edge of death By Abu Zubaydah, Sat 29 Jan 2022 04.30 EST I found myself chained to a steel bed in a white room. As soon as I started letting myself fall asleep, a small amount of water …
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Jan 27 2022
American Moloch
The Anti-vaccine Right Brought Human Sacrifice to America By Kurt Andersen, January 25, 2022 In the early phases of the pandemic, as the coronavirus spread in the United States and doctors and pharmacists and supermarket clerks continued to work and risk infection, some commentators made reference—metaphorical reference, fast and loose and over the top—to …
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Sep 07 2021
Just past daybreak
His Name Was Emmett Till By Wright Thompson, September 2021 Issue, The Atlantic The dentist was a few minutes late, so I waited by the barn, listening to a northern mockingbird in the cypress trees. His tires kicked up dust when he turned off Drew Ruleville Road and headed across the bayou toward …
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Jul 23 2021
100 Years Ago
What is Happening in Palestine Danger of Zionists Acquiring Supreme Power. By Lord Syndenham of Combe, June 1 1921 Do the British people understand whither Mr. Balfour’s Palestine policy is leading us? asks Lord Sydenham in an article in the Nineteenth Century, and he goes on to give a pessimistic view of the results …
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May 30 2021
The bishop preaches
Larry R. Benfield Easter 7, Year B St. Luke’s, Hot Springs 16 May 2021 It might make you slightly queasy, but the next big election is only three years away. You may think I am talking about the presidential election because already we have people jockeying for position, including our own junior senator, who is …
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