Jan 27 2013
Torture is trivial By Robert Jensen, 27 Jan 2013 13:53 The great American torture debate has been rekindled by the nationwide release of Zero Dark Thirty, the hot new movie about the CIA’s hunt for Osama bin Laden. But all the fussing over whether or not the movie condones, glorifies, and/or misrepresents torture is …
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Jan 21 2013
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City. I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with …
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Jan 19 2013
The controversy around Zero Dark Thirty: As misleading as the film itself By Ramzi Kassem, 19 Jan 2013 15:20 The controversy surrounding Zero Dark Thirty has been as misguided as the film itself, which opened nationwide on Friday. Much of the debate has centred on whether Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow’s latest opus leaves …
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Jan 12 2013
‘Death of a Prisoner’ By Laura Poitras, January 10, 2013 [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO2gwKLKHOo[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO2gwKLKHOo When President Obama pledged to close the Guantánamo Bay prison on his first day in office as president in 2009, I believed the country had shifted direction. I was wrong. Four years later, President Obama has not only institutionalized Guantánamo and all …
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Jan 04 2013
The myth of the murderous Muslim By Haroon Moghul, 03 Jan 2013 10:02 Muslims are subversive jihadists. The Middle East is perpetually unstable. “Islam has bloody borders.” If you’ve already made up your mind, you’ll find a way to twist the facts to support your conclusion. And if the facts don’t do the job, …
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Dec 30 2012
Israel lobby should not have veto over US president’s cabinet By Michael Brün, 30 Dec 2012 12:19 If you care about the direction of this country but think you don’t have time to pay attention to what the Israel lobby is doing, you may want to think again. This is no conspiracy theory – …
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Dec 29 2012
Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy By Naomi Wolf, Saturday 29 December 2012 09.58 EST It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, …
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