Dec 19 2014
The Unidentified Queen of Torture By Jane Mayer, December 18, 2014 For the past eight months, there has been a furious battle raging behind closed doors at the White House, the C.I.A., and in Congress. The question has been whether the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence would be allowed to use pseudonyms as a …
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Dec 07 2014
How ISIS Should Shape Our View of the Church and Its Mission Globally By Martin Accad, December 4, 2014 I’ve been blogging and speaking much about ISIS in recent months. Last July, as we were beginning to get to grips with the savagery of the group, I tried to call us all, as people who …
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Nov 09 2014
Dear editor: With regard to Ms. Zitko’s letter of Thursday, Nov. 6, I have this to say. Yes, this election was about opposing and hopefully stopping so much of this president’s policies. It didn’t happen just in the South, Ms. Zitko; it was nationwide. I won’t name all the states, because you know. …
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Sep 24 2014
A really long response to a hateful email about Obama and Muslims By Irene, Sunday, July 8, 2012 So, I got this email from my uncle. It’s one of those hateful chain mails that you usually just glance at and delete. Normally, I don’t respond to this sort of bullshit, but I just …
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Sep 23 2014
John Kerry’s rhetoric on Isis insults our intelligence and conceals the reality of the situation in Syria By Robert Fisk, Sunday, 21 September 2014 John Kerry is becoming more and more like William McGonagall, the “worst poet in the world” whose horror at the 1879 Tay Bridge railway disaster yielded the imperishable observation that …
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Sep 16 2014
How to make Isis fall on its own sword By Chelsea E Manning in Fort Leavenworth, Tuesday 16 September 2014 11.00 EDT The Islamic State (Isis) is without question a very brutal extremist group with origins in the insurgency of the United States occupation of Iraq. It has rapidly ascended to global attention by …
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Sep 15 2014
Bingo! Here’s another force of evil to be ‘vanquished’ By Robert Fisk, Thursday 11 September 2014 Resurrection, reinvention and linguistics. Barack Obama did the lot. And now he’s taking America to war in Syria as well as Iraq. Oh yes, and he’s going to defeat Isis, its “barbarism”, “genocide”, its “warped ideology” – until …
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