Aug 03 2012
Washington’s press is the cabin boy of the political class – do quote me on that By Bob Garfield, Friday 3 August 2012 09.30 EDT The weather here in Washington this week was hot and humid. That’s on background, of course. Do not quote me. You can use the information only if you attribute …
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Jul 31 2012
The Business of Kaboom By Raouf Halaby, July 23, 2012 While surfing the cable news channels during the post noon hours of July 19, 2012, to catch up on the sordid danse macabre that is unfolding in Syria, I accidentally caught the last 90 seconds of a CNN report on a US-funded “Weapons Fair” …
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Jul 30 2012
Ten reasons Mitt Romney’s Israel visit is in bad taste By Juan Cole, Monday 30 July 2012 07.00 EDT The trip of US Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to Israel is in bad taste for lots of reasons. He is holding a fundraiser at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. It is distasteful …
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Jul 28 2012
Syrian war of lies and hypocrisy By Robert Fisk, Sunday 29 July 2012 Has there ever been a Middle Eastern war of such hypocrisy? A war of such cowardice and such mean morality, of such false rhetoric and such public humiliation? I’m not talking about the physical victims of the Syrian tragedy. I’m referring …
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Jul 28 2012
When soft power is hard By Richard Falk, 28 Jul 2012 10:17 There has been serious confusion associated with the widespread embrace of “soft power” as a preferred form of diplomacy for the 21st century. Joseph Nye introduced and popularised the concept, and later it was adopted and applied in a myriad of settings …
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Jul 06 2012
The Military Solution By Tom Engelhardt, 9:51AM, July 05, 2012 Americans may feel more distant from war than at any time since World War II began. Certainly, a smaller percentage of us — less than 1% — serves in the military in this all-volunteer era of ours and, on the face of it, Washington’s constant …
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Jul 04 2012
Reborn on the 4th of July By Logan Mehl-Laituri, 07/04/2012 8:18 am Today marks my sixth rebirthday. In 2006, I was baptized and became a Christian in Honolulu, Hawaii. One week later, I would be told that my actions, as an active duty soldier facing a second deployment to Iraq, aided the enemies of …
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