Nov 11 2012
Keep Sending The Checks By Stephen Orr Manning, 2011 Turn off the streetlight I’d like to get some sleep in my split-level cardboard box in the alley off Main Street USA. Just keep sending the checks. Keep your colored ribbons your certificates of praise Parades on Main Street and fine speeches. Just give me …
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Nov 10 2012
My President Is Busy By Thomas L. Friedman, November 10, 2012 Israeli friends have been asking me whether a re-elected President Obama will take revenge on Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu for the way he and Sheldon Adelson, his foolhardy financier, openly backed Mitt Romney. My answer to Israelis is this: You should be so …
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Nov 09 2012
CNN claims Iran shot at a US drone, revealing the news network’s mindset By Glenn Greenwald, Thursday 8 November 2012 16.08 EST Barbara Starr, CNN’s Pentagon reporter (more accurately known as: the Pentagon’s reporter at CNN), has an exciting exclusive today. Exclusively relying upon “three senior officials” in the Obama administration (all anonymous, needless …
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Nov 06 2012
Well, we finally did it. My wife and I decided to go see the most wholly reverend Dwain Miller of Eldorado, Arkansas, in the flesh. We have just returned and I have three words of prophecy for you: OH-MY-GAWD! First of all, let me say that the Glory Barn regulars are the salt of …
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Oct 28 2012
How US drones forge as many foes as they kill By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 28 October 2012 Drones or their equivalent have long attracted political and military leaders dreaming of the surgical removal of their enemies. In 1812, the governor of Moscow, Count Rostopchin, devised a plan to get a hot-air balloon to hover …
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Oct 27 2012
Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war By Edward Wilson, Saturday 27 October 2012 06.00 EDT If you were born before 27 October 1962, Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov saved your life. It was the most dangerous day in history. An American spy plane had been shot down over Cuba while another U2 …
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Oct 22 2012
If massacres like Cromwell’s avert suffering, perhaps they can be justified By Andrew Brown, Friday 19 October 2012 03.29 EDT The pleasure of reading history is that it’s so much more unexpected than the news. Who would have thought that one of the great philosophers of the enlightenment defended Oliver Cromwell’s massacres in Ireland? …
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