Sep 03 2012
William Hague is wrong… we must own up to our brutal colonial past By Owen Jones, Monday 03 September 2012 Remember all that national soul-searching and self-flagellation over Empire and all the horrors committed in its name? No, me neither. But this is the fictional Britain that has been conjured up by our Foreign …
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Sep 03 2012
Cruel Conservatives Throw a Masquerade Ball By Maureen Dowd, September 1, 2012 MESSAGE: They care. Republicans care deeply. They really do. They care deeply about making us think that they care deeply. That’s why they knocked themselves out producing a convention that was a colossal hoax. They did that for us. Because they care. …
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Sep 03 2012
In the Shadow of Fiction: How Television Is Making (Up) Muslim History By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, 31/08/2012 In Channel 4’s Islam: the Untold Story, aired 28 August, British writer Tom Holland – garbed Indiana Jones-style in billowing shirt and trusty hat – treks across the Arabian desert, talking to local Bedouins, and inspecting …
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Sep 03 2012
Why I had no choice but to spurn Tony Blair By Desmond Tutu, Saturday 1 September 2012 The immorality of the United States and Great Britain’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003, premised on the lie that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, has destabilised and polarised the world to a greater extent than …
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Sep 03 2012
Republican religious fundamentalists would rewrite American history By Stephen Bates, Thursday 30 August 2012 09.00 EDT It is always good sport to tweak the noses of American religious fundamentalists, particularly at election time, and you can never say they don’t need tweaking, as the revelation that some of Louisiana’s schools are to benefit from …
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Sep 02 2012
Last edited by Monsieur d’Nalgar on September 9, 2012 at 4:18 pm. 1965 was an interesting year. The first American combat troops were sent to South Vietnam, Dylan went electric, Muhammad Ali knocked out Sonny Liston, MLK marched from Selma to Montgomery, and the first Charlie Brown Christmas aired on CBS. And by the …
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Aug 27 2012
The Syrian army would like to appear squeaky clean. It isn’t By Robert Fisk, Monday 27 August 2012 Every day, a new massacre is reported in Syria. Yesterday, it was Daraya. Slaughter by Syrian troops, according to those opposed to Bashar al-Assad. Slaughter by Bashar’s “terrorist” opponents, the Syrian army said, producing the wife …
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