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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Oct 29 2011
The Limping Middle Class By Robert B. Reich, September 3, 2011 … THE 5 percent of Americans with the highest incomes now account for 37 percent of all consumer purchases, according to the latest research from Moody’s Analytics. That should come as no surprise. Our society has become more and more unequal. When so much …
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Oct 29 2011
America’s Exploding Pipe Dream By Chareles M. Blow, October 28, 2011 … We are slowly — and painfully — being forced to realize that we are no longer the America of our imaginations. Our greatness was not enshrined. Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we …
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Oct 25 2011
India and Israel: a friendship deepened by prejudice By Kapil Komireddi, Tuesday 25 October 2011 06.25 EDT … In 1974, the New York Times journalist Bernard Weinraub described India as “the loneliest post in the world” for Israeli diplomats. Having voted against the creation of Israel at the UN in 1947, India held back from …
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Oct 23 2011
Lessons in humanity from a Libyan family, a tale of Dickens from Cairo – and the wrong shark By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 22 October 2011 … It’s an ill wind, etc. Today my thoughts are not with the Gaddafi family but with Bassam and Saniya al-Ghossain, whose daughter Raafat was killed in Libya on 15 …
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Oct 20 2011
You can’t blame Gaddafi for thinking he was one of the good guys By Robert Fisk, Friday, 21 October 2011 … We loved him. We hated him. Then we loved him again. Blair slobbered over him. Then we hated him again. Then La Clinton slobbered over her BlackBerry and we really hated him even more …
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Oct 17 2011
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOEIugOfRZ8[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOEIugOfRZ8 Pope, 84, opts for wheeled platform at Mass By Francis X. Rocca, Monday, October 17, 1:58 PM … VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI used a wheeled platform to move up the main aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica before Mass on Sunday (Oct. 16), in what his spokesman said was a measure to “reduce …
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