Apr 15 2011
A legacy of light from the sorrow of death By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 16 April 2011 … There are some individual things in life so terrible, so unspeakable, so hideous that ordinary language no longer works. A few days ago, Isis Nassar, a 54-year-old British-Lebanese artist, a woman who paints portraits and landscapes filled with …
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Apr 03 2011
Voices of protest that deserve to be listened to, not sneered at By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Monday, 28 March 2011 … My husband, daughter and I should have joined fellow-citizens who marched on Saturday against the cuts demanded by fundamentalist, doctrinaire Tories and their helpful little Lib Dem friends. But I had earlier agreed to speak …
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Apr 02 2011
Let the images of war speak for themselves By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 2 April 2011 … I hate being called a war reporter. Firstly, because there is an unhappy flavour of the junkie about it. Secondly, because you cannot report a war without knowing the politics behind it. Could Ed Murrow or Richard Dimbleby have covered …
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Mar 23 2011
The sanctity of the soaring Qassam By Amira Hass, 00:56 23.03.11 … The Hamas authorities once again forgot that the neighbor/occupier to its east is crazy. Fact: Over Shabbat, Hamas’ military wing fired more than 50 mortar shells at Israel. Or perhaps it didn’t forget: Perhaps it merely thought the Palestinian people in Gaza were …
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Mar 22 2011
Right across the Arab world, freedom is now a prospect By Robert Fisk, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 … In the dying days of the Ottoman empire, American diplomats – US consuls in Beirut, Jerusalem, Cairo and other cities – NGOs across the region and thousands of American missionaries, pleaded with the State Department and with …
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Mar 19 2011
First it was Saddam. Then Gaddafi. Now there’s a vacancy for the West’s favourite crackpot tyrant By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 19 March 2011 … So we are going to take “all necessary measures” to protect the civilians of Libya, are we? Pity we didn’t think of that 42 years ago. Or 41 years ago. Or… …
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Mar 18 2011
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUEGHdQO7WA[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUEGHdQO7WA TEDxPSU – A Radical Experiment in Empathy By Sam Edwards, October 10, 2010 Sam Richards is a sociologist and award-winning teacher who has been inspiring undergraduate students at Penn State since 1990. Every semester, 725 students register for his Race and Ethnic Relations course, one of the most popular classes at Penn State …
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