Jun 29 2012
George W. Bush: Still the worst By Robert Merry, Friday, Jun 29, 2012 06:30 AM CDT In 2003, President Bush, then two years into his tenure, was asked by journalist Bob Woodward about his place in history. “History,” he replied. “We don’t know. We’ll all be dead.” This is a remarkable statement from any …
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Jun 29 2012
From: Børre Ludvigsen Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 5:31 AM Subject: Emine, Fatimah and Umm Ahmad – ‘ahlan wa sahlan fikoum! It appears that the Arab “Spring” (it means to move or jump suddenly or rapidly upward or forward, no?) has also taken it upon itself to address the soft underbelly of the …
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Jun 28 2012
On Human Identity By Richard Falk, 20:23 06/27/2012 Early in my blog life I wrote about Jewish identity. It was partly an exercise in self-discovery, and partly a response to those who alleged that I was a self-hating Jew, or worse, an anti-Semite. These attacks on my characterwere hurtful even as I felt their …
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Jun 26 2012
Free the refugees of Nahr al-Bared By Marcy Newman, 26 Jun 2012 22:06 Last week at a candlelight vigil in Baddawi refugee camp for the camp’s dead and injured, signs posted on the school wall asked why, after five years, was Nahr al-Bared still a closed military zone? For the past five years, all …
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Jun 25 2012
A Cruel and Unusual Record By Jimmy Carter, June 24, 2012 The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights. Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens, are only the most recent, disturbing proof of how far our nation’s violation of human …
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Jun 24 2012
Alabama defeats communism with anti-sustainability law By Leah Nelson, Saturday, Jun 23, 2012 11:00 AM CDT With chronic budget shortfalls, dangerously overcrowded prisons and the nation’s biggest municipal bankruptcy filing, we here in Alabama have a lot on our minds. But at least we can cross one worry off the list: Our property cannot …
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Jun 24 2012
Morsi is no revolutionary and not much of a nationalist. The army elite has already laid traps for him By Robert Fisk, Monday 25 June 2012 While 50 million Egyptians were waiting yesterday to hear that they had elected a Muslim Brotherhood mediocrity over a Mubarak bag-carrier, I paid a visit to the home …
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