Feb 21 2012
Homs, city of torture By Jonathan Littell, Monday 20 February 2012 18.50 EST … In Bashar al-Assad‘s Syria, it is not just forbidden to speak, demonstrate and protest: it is also forbidden both to give medical treatment, and to receive treatment yourself. Since the beginning of the uprising, the regime has been waging a merciless war …
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Feb 19 2012
House of Stone By Anthony Shadid, published February 18, 2012 … The America that drew my family was 7,000 miles from where they started, in old Marjayoun, in what is now Lebanon. My aunts and uncles, grandparents and great-grandparents, were part of a century-long wave of migration that occurred as the Ottoman Empire crumbled, then …
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Feb 18 2012
Anthony Shadid yearned for home By Jefferson Morley, Friday, Feb 17, 2012 5:42 PM 12:45:46 CST … Anthony’s Shadid’s now unbearably poignant book, “House of Stone,” opens with a scene of carnage that will be familiar to anyone who read his coverage of the wars of the Middle East. As a reporter for the Washington …
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Feb 18 2012
Eugenics: the skeleton that rattles loudest in the left’s closet By Jonathan Freedland, Friday 17 February 2012 13.59 EST … Does the past matter? When confronted by facts that are uncomfortable, but which relate to people long dead, should we put them aside and, to use a phrase very much of our time, move on? …
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Feb 18 2012
False accusations of antisemitism desensitise us to the real thing By Rachel Shabi, Friday 17 February 2012 09.11 EST … She hasn’t yet filled the post or filed a single line of copy, but the incoming New York Times correspondent for Jerusalem has already been judged. And it’s damning. Apparently, soon-to-be bureau chief Jodi Rudoren …
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Feb 18 2012
The US in a ‘dangerous state of funk’ By Ian Buruma, 18 Feb 2012 13:48 … The eccentric Bengali intellectual Nirad C Chaudhuri once explained the end of the British Raj in India as a case of “funk”, or loss of nerve. The British had stopped believing in their own empire. They simply lost the …
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Feb 13 2012
Letters raise fears for last Briton in Guantanamo By Paul Calahan, Monday 13 February 2012 … On the day he marks 10 years locked inside the world’s most notorious prison without having been charged with an offence, the last UK resident in Guantanamo Bay pleads with his captors: “Please torture me in the old way …
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