Nov 21 2011
Why Iceland Should Be in the News But Is Not By Deena Stryker, August 25 2011 … An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, …
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Nov 20 2011
A historical precedent that might prove a bonus for Occupy Wall Street By Nicolaus Mills, Saturday 19 November 2011 12.00 EST … This Tuesday’s pre-dawn destruction of the Zuccotti Park encampment of Occupy Wall Street by New York City police in riot gear has been seen by some as a serious defeat for the movement. …
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Nov 19 2011
Ukraine, 1942. What are we seeing? By Robert Fisk, Saturday November 19 2011 … In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, a Polish postal official working for the resistance opened a letter sent by a German soldier to his family. Inside was a photograph which so shocked the man that he forwarded it to the Polish underground; …
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Nov 19 2011
The Occupy movement now has its iconic image of martyrdom By Jonathan Jones, Friday 18 November 2011 09.01 EST … Every nascent political movement needs martyrs. Even the sensible British labour movement, whose history is mostly peaceful and overwhelmingly parliamentary, has its memories of the Tolpuddle Martyrs and the Peterloo massacre. Revolutionary traditions fervently venerate …
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Nov 18 2011
‘Obama the Antichrist’ and end-times doctrine By Sarah Posner, Friday 18 November 2011 14.29 EST … Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, a 21 year old from Idaho Falls, Idaho was charged this week with attempting to assassinate Barack Obama by firing rifle shots at the presidential residence at the White House. The president, Ortega-Hernandez reportedly maintained, is …
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Nov 18 2011
Why the West is Demonizing Iran By Stuart Littlewood, November 17, 2011 … When new recruits join British Petroleum (BP) they are fed romantic tales about how the company came into being. William Knox D’Arcy, a Devon man, studied law and, after emigrating to Australia, made a fortune from the Mount Morgan gold-mining operations in …
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Nov 16 2011
Celebrating the 1611 King James Bible By Rowan Williams, Wednesday 16 November 2011 12.33 EST … This is the text of a sermon delivered at a Thanksgiving service in Westminster Abbey for the 400th anniversary of the 1611 authorised King James translation of the Bible. What is a good translation? Not one that just allows …
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