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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Oct 13 2012
Were Obama my perfect candidate, then most of the prior administration would be rotting away in Guantanamo, a latter-day Spandau prison under UN jurisdiction. What was left of the Grand Old Party would be its ridiculous, remnant wackadoodle tea party born-again John Birchers and a handful of secessionists still itching to fight …
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Oct 12 2012
Overwrought empire: The discrediting of US military power By Tom Engelhardt, 12 Oct 2012 10:50 Americans lived in a “victory culture” for much of the 20th century. You could say that we experienced an almost 75-year stretch of triumphalism – think of it as the real “American Century” – from World War I to …
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Oct 02 2012
A Letter to Mitt Romney from Samantha… By Samantha K., Dear Governor Romney, I’ll be honest with you – you never had a chance of getting my vote. Not because I am a victim who is dependent upon the system, but because I am an informed woman with a grasp on economics, and I’m …
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Sep 29 2012
Bibi’s Crazy UN Speech By Justin Raimondo, September 28, 2012 It’s no wonder the Israeli Foreign Ministry initially held back from releasing a transcript of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the UN General Assembly: Bibi’s wackiness doesn’t bear close scrutiny. Perhaps “wacky” isn’t quite the right word for his 40-minute peroration, during which …
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Sep 28 2012
Why ‘they’ still don’t hate ‘us’ By Mark LeVine, 26 Sep 2012 08:07 I knew the title to my second book would be Why They Don’t Hate Us before the last embers of what had been the World Trade Center had cooled. Life in New York City was just beginning to reanimate after two …
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