Jan 25 2012
Why We Must Learn America’s Islamic History By Engy Abdelkader, 01/25/2012 11:00 am … “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue…” So we were taught in primary school. But, did you know that the captains of two of the three small Spanish ships comprising Columbus’s fleet were in fact Muslim? Martin Alonso Pinzon the captain …
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Jan 22 2012
The World War on Democracy By John Pilger, January 20, 2012 … Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s …
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Jan 14 2012
The ‘invented people’ stand little chance By Robert Fisk, Saturday 14 January 2012 … Thank goodness we don’t have to hear Newt Gingrich for a while. His statement that the Palestinians were an “invented people” marked about the lowest point in the Republican-Christian Right-Likudist/Israel relationship. So deep has this pact now become that you can …
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Jan 06 2012
The shocking truth that killing can be so casual By Robert Fisk, Saturday 07 January 2012 … More horror arrives in the mail. Clive Burrage wrote to me about his brother-in-law, Harry Leeks, pilot of an RAF Mitchell bomber in the last two years of the Second World War, based in Cologne in the first …
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Jan 05 2012
Rick Santorum: bearer of the Christianist mantle By Peter Beaumont, Thursday 5 January 2012 12.51 EST … Writing in 2003 the US columnist Andrew Sullivan coined a neologism “Christianist“. A Republican and Christian himself, what Sullivan meant to describe, as he explained in his blog earlier this year, was “an accelerating shift … taking place …
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Jan 03 2012
Wife-beating? That’s fine – unless you’re a Muslim By Mark Steel, Wednesday 09 July 2008 … The Sun newspaper has come over a bit modest. Following a Channel 4 documentary about media reporting of Muslims, the paper accepts some of its stories were “distorted”. But they’re not doing themselves justice. They weren’t distorted – they …
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Dec 31 2011
France’s shamefully forgotten allies By Robert Fisk, Saturday 31 December 2011 … It took Indigènes to remind the French that they owed their liberation not only to De Gaulle’s largely white Free French troops but also to 134,000 Algerian soldiers, 73,000 Moroccans, 26,000 Tunisians and 92,000 “others” from Sub-Saharan Africa. Indigènes means “natives” but the …
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