Oct 22 2012
If massacres like Cromwell’s avert suffering, perhaps they can be justified By Andrew Brown, Friday 19 October 2012 03.29 EDT The pleasure of reading history is that it’s so much more unexpected than the news. Who would have thought that one of the great philosophers of the enlightenment defended Oliver Cromwell’s massacres in Ireland? …
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Oct 22 2012
These fondant fancies are baking little girls of us all By Tanya Gold, Friday 19 October 2012 16.30 EDT The clock is broken. Everything points backwards. It is a truism that these are, for women, conservative times. Female unemployment climbs, equal pay stalls, employment rights die, female representation sinks and, to distract us from …
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Oct 13 2012
Were Obama my perfect candidate, then most of the prior administration would be rotting away in Guantanamo, a latter-day Spandau prison under UN jurisdiction. What was left of the Grand Old Party would be its ridiculous, remnant wackadoodle tea party born-again John Birchers and a handful of secessionists still itching to fight …
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Oct 12 2012
Overwrought empire: The discrediting of US military power By Tom Engelhardt, 12 Oct 2012 10:50 Americans lived in a “victory culture” for much of the 20th century. You could say that we experienced an almost 75-year stretch of triumphalism – think of it as the real “American Century” – from World War I to …
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Oct 10 2012
One last letter before these portentous elections, a short compendium of awkward questions. Here’s hoping they all survive our small-town editor’s butchery… Given how simple-minded Arkansas politicians have once again embarrassed themselves and their constituents and our kinda unnatural state, is there any doubt now that Republicans are the preferred party for Islamophobic racists? After WW2, …
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Oct 08 2012
Colonised and coloniser, empire’s poison infects us all By George Monbiot, Monday 8 October 2012 15.30 EDT Over the gates of Auschwitz were the words “Work Makes You Free”. Over the gates of the Solovetsky camp in Lenin’s gulag: “Through Labour – Freedom!”. Over the gates of the Ngenya detention camp, run by the …
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Oct 07 2012
BB King at 87: the last of the great bluesmen By Ed Vulliamy, Saturday 6 October 2012 17.21 EDT The fat red sun settles itself against the horizon, throwing a last, honey-sweet light through humid evening and over a small crowd on the lawn beside a railroad track that cuts through the cotton fields …
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