Nov 05 2011
Do those who flaunt the poppy on their lapels know that they mock the war dead? By Robert Fisk, Saturday 05 November 2011 … I turned on the television in my Damascus hotel room to witness a dreary sight: all the boys and girls of BBC World wearing their little poppies again. Bright red they …
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Oct 23 2011
Lessons in humanity from a Libyan family, a tale of Dickens from Cairo – and the wrong shark By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 22 October 2011 … It’s an ill wind, etc. Today my thoughts are not with the Gaddafi family but with Bassam and Saniya al-Ghossain, whose daughter Raafat was killed in Libya on 15 …
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Oct 08 2011
Romney’s scary Middle East advisor By As`ad AbuKhalil, Friday, Oct 7, 2011 10:00 AM 13:15:53 CDT \ … Mitt Romney has a new foreign policy adviser. His name is Walid Phares, a Lebanese -American contributor to Fox News, and rising star in Republican punditry. Phares has had three careers and all are relevant in bizarre …
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Sep 18 2011
A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe By Chris Hedges, September 11, 2001 … I arrived in Times Square around 9:30 on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. A large crowd was transfixed by the huge Jumbotron screens. Billows of smoke could be seen on the screens above us, pouring out of the …
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Sep 16 2011
The anthrax scare: not a germ of truth By Nicolaus Mills, Thursday 15 September 2011 12.00 EDT … We forget that less than a month after 9/11, Americans felt themselves under siege again. This time, the danger came from powdered anthrax sent through the mail in small, but deadly, amounts. The toll from the anthrax …
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Sep 14 2011
West Bank villagers’ daily battle with Israel over water By David Hearst, Wednesday 14 September 2011 12.51 EDT … The South Hebron Hills, sweltering in 34C heat and in its second consecutive year of drought, is a landscape of brutal contrasts. There is enough water here to support lush greenhouses, big cattle sheds, even ornamental …
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Sep 13 2011
Trocmé, Christ and revolution By Savitri Hensman, Tuesday 13 September 2011 14.02 BST … Jesus “was not concerned with the reform of certain details, but with overturning everything, including the entire economic hierarchy of society”, wrote André Trocmé in Jesus and the nonviolent revolution. It is now half a century since this work appeared, 40 …
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