Jan 14 2012
Woody Guthrie, more relevant than ever By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Friday, Jan 13, 2012 9:53 AM 11:50:33 CST … The traveling medicine show known as the race for the Republican presidential nomination has moved on from Iowa and New Hampshire, and all eyes are now on South Carolina. Well, not exactly all. At …
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Jan 14 2012
For the families of Haditha, this is a matter of honour By Nick Broomfield, Friday 13 January 2012 16.30 EST … It was more than six years ago, but the massacre that took place at Haditha, western Iraq, in November 2005, still resonates in the Middle East. The now notorious war crime, which left 24 …
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Jan 14 2012
The ‘invented people’ stand little chance By Robert Fisk, Saturday 14 January 2012 … Thank goodness we don’t have to hear Newt Gingrich for a while. His statement that the Palestinians were an “invented people” marked about the lowest point in the Republican-Christian Right-Likudist/Israel relationship. So deep has this pact now become that you can …
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Jan 14 2012
This is not about ‘bad apples’. This is the horror of war By Robert Fisk, Friday 13 January 2012 … So now it’s snapshots of US Marines pissing on the Afghan dead. Better, I suppose, than the US soldiers pictured beside the innocent Afghan teenager they fragged back in March of last year. Or the …
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Jan 12 2012
What War With Iran Might Look Like By Philip Giraldi, Thursday, 12 January 2012 16:34 … Back in September 2007 I wrote an article for Antiwar.com called “What World War III May Look Like.” The article, which presumed that an incident involving U.S. troops on the border between Iraq and Iran could easily escalate into …
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Jan 11 2012
Guantánamo at 10: the defeat of liberty by fear By Michael Ratner, Wednesday 11 January 2012 09.00 ES … On 11 January 2002, the United States began showing major signs of what I call “Guantánamo syndrome”, after one of the ailment’s first and most enduring symptoms. That was the day when the Bush administration transferred …
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Jan 08 2012
Blessed are the un-cool By Rachel Held Evans, Jun 15, 2011 … People sometimes assume that because I’m a progressive 30-year-old who enjoys Mumford and Sons and has no children, I must want a super-hip church—you know, the kind that’s called “Thrive” or “Be” and which boasts “an awesome worship experience,” a fair-trade coffee bar, …
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