Sep 17 2012
The truth about Muhammad and Aisha By Myriam Francois-Cerrah, Monday 17 September 2012 09.00 EDT Writing about Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, the Orientalist scholar W Montgomery Watt wrote: “Of all the world’s great men, none has been so much maligned as Muhammad.” His quote seems all the more poignant in light of the …
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Sep 16 2012
The forgotten massacre By Robert Fisk, Saturday 15 September 2012 The memories remain, of course. The man who lost his family in an earlier massacre, only to watch the young men of Chatila lined up after the new killings and marched off to death. But – like the muck piled on the garbage tip …
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Sep 12 2012
The Mind Thieves By George Monbiot, September 10, 2012 When you raise the subject of over-eating and obesity, you often see people at their worst. The comment threads discussing these issues reveal a legion of bullies, who appear to delight in other people’s problems. When alcoholism and drug addiction are discussed, the tone tends …
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Sep 09 2012
Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital By Matt Taibbi, August 29, 2012 7:00 AM ET The great criticism of Mitt Romney, from both sides of the aisle, has always been that he doesn’t stand for anything. He’s a flip-flopper, they say, a lightweight, a cardboard opportunist who’ll say …
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Sep 08 2012
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/07/national_reviews_ryan_romney_cover_resembles_soviet_propaganda/ or http://bit.ly/PPzGSg
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Sep 06 2012
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09cEwnivdr0[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09cEwnivdr0 In caving on Jerusalem, Dems pulled back the curtain on the lobby By Philip Weiss, September 6, 2012 Last night was an amazing moment at the Democratic National Convention; for an instant, we saw the Israel lobby naked on the national stage. When party bosses stuffed the phrase, “Jerusalem is and will remain …
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Sep 03 2012
The day a Cockburn set the White House aflame By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 02 September 2012 As a correspondent in Washington 20 years ago, I received occasional calls from local television stations on the anniversary of the burning of the White House by a British force in August 1814. The reason they wanted a …
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