Mar 23 2012
Syria’s refugees remind us of the price of revolution By Jonathan Jones, Friday 23 March 2012 07.12 EDT … Here is the truth about revolution, war, dictatorship and resistance. It is a simple truth and it is crushing: people suffer. In this powerful picture by Greek photojournalist Giorgos Moutafis a refugee family in Janoudia in …
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Mar 23 2012
‘Belambai’ is Afghanistan’s ‘My Lai’ By Paul Rosenberg, 21 Mar 2012 13:07 … He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you – Friedrich Nietzsche I immediately thought of the My Lai Massacre …
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Mar 20 2012
Did Jesus Exist? By Bart D. Ehrman, 03/20/2012 7:25 am … In a society in which people still claim the Holocaust did not happen, and in which there are resounding claims that the American president is, in fact, a Muslim born on foreign soil, is it any surprise to learn that the greatest figure in …
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Mar 17 2012
Mike Daisey’s betrayal of This American Life’s truth – and my trust By Bob Garfield, Friday 16 March 2012 21.10 EDT … There are lies and there are lies and there are lies. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Big Lie. “OMG, your [homely] baby is beautiful!”: small social lie. And then, there is …
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Mar 14 2012
Wearing a Cross to Work Announced by Archdruid Eileen, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 … I was musing on the great Wearing A Cross to Work controversy, if it could be called that. Overall I’m not convinced there is much persecution of Christians, in any real sense, in this country. But clearly there will – normally …
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Mar 10 2012
Romney, Santorum and archaic ideas on fertility By Lisa Miller, March 2, 2012 … Between them, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have as many children — 12 — as there were tribes of Israel. Ron Paul has five of his own, and in an early debate, perhaps unwilling to be outdone by Michele Bachmann’s fostering …
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Mar 07 2012
A world map without Lebanon By Belen Fernandez, 07 Mar 2012 16:03 … For all of the ruckus made over past decades about an alleged plot by various groupings of Arabs and Muslims to drive the state of Israel into the sea or otherwise exterminate it, the Israelis have been permitted to regularly test-drive methods …
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