Dec 12 2011
Newt, the Jews, and an “Invented” People By David Remnick, December 11, 2011 … Late last week, as part of a Republican pander-fest for the Jewish vote—what Jon Stewart aptly called a “tuchus kiss-off”—Newt Gingrich, the frontrunner in Iowa and South Carolina, turned on the spigot of his pedantry and called the Palestinians an “invented” …
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Dec 11 2011
PROOFS OF GOD IN A PHOTON By Martin Redfern, Sunday 24 December 1995 … FOR THE first time in 400 years, sensible people are saying some very dangerous things. Theologians are discussing the origins of the physical universe, the beauty of the fundamental laws of physics and the wonder of the complexity of nature. Scientists, …
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Dec 10 2011
The Terrible Beauty of Wikileaks By Idrees, December 10th, 2011 … Following are excerpts from my long essay on Wikileaks and the Palestine Papers which appears in The Arabs Are Alive, the first issue of Critical Muslim, edited by Ziauddin Sardar and PULSE’s own Robin Yassin-Kassab. British journalist Gary Younge once quipped that the English …
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Dec 09 2011
Bankers are the dictators of the West By Robert Fisk, Saturday 10 December 2011 … Writing from the very region that produces more clichés per square foot than any other “story” – the Middle East – I should perhaps pause before I say I have never read so much garbage, so much utter drivel, as …
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Dec 04 2011
Phoenician footprints all over Beirut By Robert Fisk, Saturday 03 December 2011 … I walked down a Phoenician street the other day, built under Persian rule. A bit bumpy and uneven underfoot – like many a street in modern day Iranian and Lebanese cities – but this one happened to be about 2,600 years old. …
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Nov 28 2011
The Cross, an Amazing Paradox * By Harry Emerson Fosdick, Living Under Tension, 1941, Harper and Brothers, New York and London, pages 233 – 242. … It is one thing to preach a Christmas sermon about the radiant stories that light up the birth of Jesus; it is another to preach a Palm Sunday sermon …
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Nov 27 2011
Would Jesus Join the Occupy Protests? By the Rev. Howard Bess, November 26, 2011 … When the Martin Luther King Jr. monument was dedicated recently in Washington DC, I was reminded that the civil rights movement in America was led not by a politician fulfilling campaign promises, nor by a popular evangelist bent on saving …
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