Aug 31 2011
WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says By Matthew Schofield | McClatchy Newspapers, Wednesday, August 31, 2011 … A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an …
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Aug 31 2011
Polish-Jewish sociologist compares West Bank separation fence to Warsaw Ghetto walls By Roman Frister, 01:05 01.09.11 … Sygmunt Bauman, the Jewish sociologist and one of the greatest philosophers of our time, castigated Israel harshly this week, saying it did not want peace and was afraid of it. Bauman said Israel was “taking advantage of the …
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Aug 31 2011
The Tea Party has a point about religion and the founding fathers By Theo Hobson, Wednesday 31 August 2011 12.30 BST … There’s a presidential election coming up and, what do you know, the religious right is going to be a pretty important factor. It’s time to brush up on all that separation of church …
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Aug 30 2011
Algeria sends the West a message by taking in Gaddafi’s brood By Robert Fisk, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 … When the Emir of Qatar flew to see President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria early this summer, he had one message to convey: don’t help the Gaddafi regime. In other words, don’t replace the dictator’s Nato-destroyed armour …
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Aug 30 2011
Dick Cheney: organ grinder to George Bush’s monkey By Megan Carpentier, Tuesday 30 August 2011 18.30 BST … On 31 March 1981, then Secretary of State Alexander Haig sat down in the White House situation room after the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan and declared himself the de facto president, a mistake – constitutionally …
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Aug 27 2011
…stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame. (from a hymn by George Bennard, 1873-1958) … For at least the last two thousand years, Jerusalem (Yerushaláyim or al-Quds) has been in the business of building tourist attractions for religious pilgrims. Shiny, hi-tech Davidson Center, not far from the spot Constantine’s mother pegged as Golgotha, …
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Aug 23 2011
How long before the dominoes fall? By Robert Fisk, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 … The remaining Arab potentates and tyrants have spent a second sleepless night. How soon will the liberators of Tripoli metamorphose into the liberators of Damascus and Aleppo and Homs? Or of Amman? Or Jerusalem? Or of Bahrain or Riyadh? It’s not …
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