Mar 23 2012
Syria’s refugees remind us of the price of revolution By Jonathan Jones, Friday 23 March 2012 07.12 EDT … Here is the truth about revolution, war, dictatorship and resistance. It is a simple truth and it is crushing: people suffer. In this powerful picture by Greek photojournalist Giorgos Moutafis a refugee family in Janoudia in …
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Mar 21 2012
Madness is not the reason for this massacre By Robert Fisk, Saturday 17 March 2012 … I’m getting a bit tired of the “deranged” soldier story. It was predictable, of course. The 38-year-old staff sergeant who massacred 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, near Kandahar this week had no sooner returned to base than the …
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Mar 17 2012
Mike Daisey’s betrayal of This American Life’s truth – and my trust By Bob Garfield, Friday 16 March 2012 21.10 EDT … There are lies and there are lies and there are lies. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Big Lie. “OMG, your [homely] baby is beautiful!”: small social lie. And then, there is …
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Mar 13 2012
Massacres are the inevitable result of foreign occupation By Seumas Milne, Tuesday 13 March 2012 18.20 EDT … It was an “isolated incident”, US officials insisted. The murder of 16 Afghan civilians as they slept, Hillary Clinton declared, was the “inexplicable act” of one soldier. And as Barack Obama and David Cameron prepared to put …
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Mar 07 2012
A world map without Lebanon By Belen Fernandez, 07 Mar 2012 16:03 … For all of the ruckus made over past decades about an alleged plot by various groupings of Arabs and Muslims to drive the state of Israel into the sea or otherwise exterminate it, the Israelis have been permitted to regularly test-drive methods …
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Mar 07 2012
Auschwitz complex By M.S., Mar 6th 2012, 19:04 … During his meeting with Barack Obama on Monday, Bibi Netanyahu said Israel “must have the ability always to defend itself, by itself, against any threat.” “I believe that’s why you appreciate, Mr. President, that Israel must reserve the right to defend itself,” Netanyahu said. “After all, …
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Mar 06 2012
Is Homs an echo of what happened in Srebrenica? By Robert Fisk, Wednesday 07 March 2012 … No entry to the International Red Cross. Not yet. Maybe in a few days, when the area has been secured. Men and boys separated from the women and children. Streams of refugees. Women, children, the old, few males. …
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