Nov 13 2011
Why do the US media believe the worst about Iran? By Brian Whitaker, Wednesday 9 November 2011 10.36 EST … “One of the oldest tricks in the run-up to a war is to spread terrifying stories of things that the enemy may be about to do. Government officials plant these tales, journalists water them and …
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Nov 12 2011
Will computers make extinct the last of Islam’s proud and honourable calligraphers? By Robert Fisk, Saturday 12 November 2011 … Dr Jamal Naja meets me in a coffee shop just down the road from his home in Alamuddin Street, a quiet almost mischievous face, greying hair, and he lays – with great care – a …
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Nov 12 2011
Rosie the Riveter and the Ironies of Bentonville By Harold Meyerson, November 11, 2011 … When the doors swung open this morning on Alice Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas—funded to the tune of $1.4 billion by the Walton Family Foundation—one of its prize possessions was Norman Rockwell’s iconic World War II-era …
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Nov 05 2011
Do those who flaunt the poppy on their lapels know that they mock the war dead? By Robert Fisk, Saturday 05 November 2011 … I turned on the television in my Damascus hotel room to witness a dreary sight: all the boys and girls of BBC World wearing their little poppies again. Bright red they …
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Nov 05 2011
The post-racial America of Ann Coulter and Pat Buchanan By Colbert I. King, November 4 … Oh, what a “loverly” time we are having in post-racial America. Except when the outrageous holy of holies of the American conservative movement elect to have their say, as happens often, most recently with right-wing oracles Ann Coulter and Pat …
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Nov 05 2011
Remember, remember the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent to blow up King and Parliament. Three score barrels were laid below to prove old England’s overthrow; By God’s mercy he was catch’d with a dark lantern and …
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Nov 03 2011
Welcoming Palestine to UNESCO By Richard Falk, 02 Nov 2011 11:29 … It may not ease the daily pain of occupation and blockade or the endless anguish of refugee status and exile or the continual humiliations of discrimination and second class citizenship, but the admission of Palestine to membership in UNESCO is for so many …
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