Nov 12 2012
The Israeli documentary putting military rule in Palestine on trial By Rachel Shabi, Monday 12 November 2012 07.05 EST The Law In These Parts, an Israeli documentary awarded this year’s Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury prize, examines how the country created a military-legal system to control the Palestinians in the lands Israel occupied in …
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Nov 12 2012
Veterans Day and a caution against the cult of the military By Bob Garfield, Sunday 11 November 2012 19.44 EST The video is lovely, affecting and – considering the subject matter – reasonably understated. A 60-ish guy sits at a lunch counter when a younger man, in army fatigues, walks in and orders a …
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Nov 10 2012
My President Is Busy By Thomas L. Friedman, November 10, 2012 Israeli friends have been asking me whether a re-elected President Obama will take revenge on Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu for the way he and Sheldon Adelson, his foolhardy financier, openly backed Mitt Romney. My answer to Israelis is this: You should be so …
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Nov 09 2012
Heartbeat: My Involuntary Miscarriage and ‘Voluntary Abortion’ in Ohio By Tamara Mann, 11/01/2012 10:30 am On June 19, the state of Ohio declared that I had a voluntary abortion. My rabbi and my doctors disagreed. I simply wanted to be pregnant. The ordeal began two weeks earlier; I was in stirrups. The sonogram technician …
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Nov 09 2012
How Evangelicals Decided That Life Begins at Conception By Jonathan Dudley, 11/05/2012 4:34 pm In the late 1960s and early 1970s, evangelical Christians widely believed the Bible says life begins at birth and supported looser abortion policies. That was my argument in an Oct. 31 op-ed for CNN, titled, “When evangelicals were pro-choice.” Understandably, …
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Oct 27 2012
Bernard Shaw’s guide to the post-crash world By Polly Toynbee, Friday 12 October 2012 17.55 EDT Lady Cholmondeley certainly got more than she bargained for when she asked for “a few of your ideas of socialism”. George Bernard Shaw‘s sister-in-law expected a brief summary, a simple user’s manual on his political and ethical beliefs. …
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Oct 27 2012
Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war By Edward Wilson, Saturday 27 October 2012 06.00 EDT If you were born before 27 October 1962, Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov saved your life. It was the most dangerous day in history. An American spy plane had been shot down over Cuba while another U2 …
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