Jun 30 2011
From one of the Arab world’s most insightful and eloquent political spokesmen — perhaps his best ever! Rami Khouri highlights a (potentially) very significant and promising new direction being taken by some influential elements of the Palestinian national movement — one that all of us have been hoping for a very long time would eventually emerge to establish once and …
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Jun 22 2011
When Muhammad Ali took the real heavy weight By Dave Zirin, 21 Jun 2011 13:50 … In an era defined by endless war, we should recognise a day in history that wasn’t celebrated on Capitol Hill or in the White House. On June 20, 1967, the great Muhammad Ali was convicted in Houston for refusing induction …
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Jun 19 2011
Lies, damn lies, and reports of battlefield atrocities By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday, 19 June 2011 … In war, accounts of atrocities need to be treated with scepticism. Surveying a battlefield where he had once fought, the great Confederate general Stonewall Jackson turned to an aide and asked: “Did you ever think, sir, what an opportunity …
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Jun 17 2011
We can’t tell the victims to leave mass graves in peace By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 18 June 2011 … The Syrians say they discovered a mass grave this week containing the bodies of murdered soldiers outside a town called Jisr al-Shughour. “Armed gangs” are to blame, according to Syrian state television. Well, maybe. Or perhaps …
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Jun 17 2011
“Conservatism Is True.” By Andrew Sullivan, 16 Jun 2011 09:57 PM … It’s funny that Fareed Zakaria and I are now seen as beyond the conservative pale. We were both Harvard immigrants at the same time and definitely right of center (although I always had more libertarian impulses). The core reason I became a conservative …
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Jun 17 2011
Eisenhower’s worst fears came true. We invent enemies to buy the bombs By Simon Jenkins, Thursday 16 June 2011 21.00 BST … Why do we still go to war? We seem unable to stop. We find any excuse for this post-imperial fidget and yet we keep getting trapped. Germans do not do it, or Spanish …
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Jun 05 2011
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. – Isaiah 2:4 (King James Version) Khalil Rabah, from “BIPRODUCT,” 2010. http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/201103/doha.s.new.modern.htm or http://bit.ly/jHKLC3 or http://tinyurl.com/3jsahv2
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