Jun 25 2011
Them That’s Not Shall Lose By Charles M. Blow, June 24, 2011 … “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” James Baldwin penned that line more than 50 years ago, but it seems particularly prescient today, if in a different manner than its original intent. Baldwin …
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Jun 24 2011
How to survive the age of distraction By Johann Hari, Friday, 24 June 2011 … In the 20th century, all the nightmare-novels of the future imagined that books would be burnt. In the 21st century, our dystopias imagine a world where books are forgotten. To pluck just one, Gary Steynghart’s novel Super Sad True Love …
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Jun 22 2011
When Muhammad Ali took the real heavy weight By Dave Zirin, 21 Jun 2011 13:50 … In an era defined by endless war, we should recognise a day in history that wasn’t celebrated on Capitol Hill or in the White House. On June 20, 1967, the great Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston for refusing induction …
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Jun 19 2011
(Not) spreading the wealth The Washington Post, Saturday, June 18, 2011 … Growing share of income for the rich Inequality in the U.S. has has grown steadily since the 1970s, following a flat period after World War II. In 2008, the wealthiest 10 percent earned almost the same amount of income as the rest of …
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Jun 19 2011
Lies, damn lies, and reports of battlefield atrocities By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday, 19 June 2011 … In war, accounts of atrocities need to be treated with scepticism. Surveying a battlefield where he had once fought, the great Confederate general Stonewall Jackson turned to an aide and asked: “Did you ever think, sir, what an opportunity …
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Jun 19 2011
Face the facts – Syria is an apartheid state By Nick Cohen, Sunday 19 June 2011 … For a tyrant whose forces took 13-year-old Hamza Ali al-Khateeb, burned him, mutilated him, shattered his knee caps, cut off his penis and sent his corpse to his parents as a warning against participating in opposition politics, Bashar …
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Jun 17 2011
We can’t tell the victims to leave mass graves in peace By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 18 June 2011 … The Syrians say they discovered a mass grave this week containing the bodies of murdered soldiers outside a town called Jisr al-Shughour. “Armed gangs” are to blame, according to Syrian state television. Well, maybe. Or perhaps …
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