Jul 04 2011
The blood of Dresden By pulsemedia.org, June 25, 2011 at 10:08 pm … Following is an extract from Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut in which he describes the scenes of ‘obscene brutality’ he witnessed as a prisoner of war in Dresden which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. … It was a routine speech we …
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Jul 02 2011
The Damaging Three Words of the Declaration of Independence By Alison Owings, 07/ 2/11 08:30 AM ET … When I moved to San Francisco decades ago, I was invited to any number of July 4th gatherings. They all had two things in common. First, they were freezing. What was with this fog? Second, at someone’s …
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Jul 02 2011
A racist, messianic rabbi is the ruler of Israel By Sefi Rachlevsky, 02:11 01.07.11 … When King Lior parted from the evildoers, who had detained him for an hour of questioning, he turned to Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, where he was borne on the shoulders of those celebrating his messianic kingdom. Once again, he began to …
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Jul 02 2011
All good reasoning proceeds from prior commitments and beliefs By Nicholas Lash, Friday 1 July 2011 22.29 BST … Over 40 years ago, I was taking part in a seminar during which the Australian Jesuit theologian Gerald O’Collins defined the theologian as someone who “watches their language in the presence of God”. To get a …
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Jul 01 2011
The invasion of Australia By John Pilger, Friday 1 July 2011 21.15 BST … The City of Sydney council has voted to replace the words “European arrival” in the official record with “invasion”. The deputy lord mayor, Marcelle Hoff, says it is intellectually dishonest to use any other word to describe how Aboriginal Australia was …
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Jun 30 2011
From one of the Arab world’s most insightful and eloquent political spokesmen — perhaps his best ever! Rami Khouri highlights a (potentially) very significant and promising new direction being taken by some influential elements of the Palestinian national movement — one that all of us have been hoping for a very long time would eventually emerge to establish once and …
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Jun 28 2011
Is America’s plight so terrible that it would lurch this far? By Matthew Norman, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 … Lovers of sledghammer irony, stand by for a doozy. Patience is required, while the odds are both fairly long and mortifyingly short, depending on the closeness of one’s acquaintance with sanity. For all that, there is …
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