Jun 03 2014
Bowe Bergdahl release: Email exchange reveals extent of US failure in Afghan war By Patrick Cockburn, Tuesday 03 June 2014 It is a bitter indictment of an army in trouble. It was written by the American soldier Bowe Bergdahl in his last email to his parents sent just before he walked off his base …
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May 27 2014
[tube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1brf79VyF40[/tube] http://youtu.be/1brf79VyF40 How I Made Sure a Texas Tea Party Candidate Accepted ‘Dirty’ Muslim Money By Dean Obeidallah, 05.27.14 Sometimes you have to taunt the bigots. It’s often more fun and satisfying than getting angry with them. In this instance, the focus of my fun is Tea Party candidate T.J. Fabby, who is locked …
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May 13 2014
B is for Bumpkins By Jacques d’Nalgar, May 13 2014 CE Back in 1973, Jerry Jeff Walker had a big hit with a Ray Wylie Hubbard song that, 40 years later, is still a favorite with the sing-along bar crowd. Inspired by memories of that song from my long-ago raucous college days, here then is an humble homage to “Up Against the Wall, …
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Mar 07 2014
Here Are 5 Infuriating Examples of Facts Making People Dumber By Chris Mooney, Wed Mar. 5, 2014 3:00 AM GMT On Monday, I reported on the latest study to take a bite out of the idea of human rationality. In a paper just published in Pediatrics, Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth University and his …
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Feb 23 2014
Pluralism was once the hallmark of the Arab world, so the exodus of Christians from the Middle East is painful to one Islamic scholar By Robert Fisk, Sunday 23 February 2014 Tarif Khalidi is a big, bearded bear of a man, the kind you would always choose to play Father Christmas, or perhaps a …
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Feb 09 2014
The number of women sentenced to death across the Middle East has very little to do with justice By Robert Fisk, Sunday 9 February 2014 The execution of women holds a special revulsion for Westerners, especially – let us be honest about this – when the women are decapitated, hanged or shot in the …
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Feb 08 2014
Did the Age of Genocide Begin in Sochi? By Joshua Keating, Feb. 5 2014 3:51 PM Of the myriad controversies surrounding the upcoming Olympics, one that’s gotten relatively little attention—at least outside Russia—is the ongoing campaign against the games by the global Circassian community. The choice of Sochi as a venue has highlighted a …
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