Dec 01 2015
During our long, rainy drive home after Thanksgiving, my wife and I got bored and started channel-hopping on the radio. We stopped for a while on the “Patriot” channel, long enough to catch up with what’s going on in the paranoid, squishy fringes of Der Homeland’s right-wing. Or what we call the mainstream of the …
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Nov 25 2015
How the United States helped create the Islamic State By Juan Cole, November 23 Did the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 lead to our current crisis over the Islamic State? The question has been posed baldly in this campaign season, as when a young woman at a campaign rally said to GOP …
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Nov 25 2015
The Politics of Thanksgiving Day By William Loren Katz, November 26, 2014 With family excitement building with the approach of Thanksgiving, you would never know November was Native American History Month. We would do well to recognize Native American resistance to colonialism on Thanksgiving instead of the myths about Native American dinner with Pilgrims. …
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Nov 23 2015
Whoa there, David Cameron! Haste and rhetoric is no recipe for peace By Robert Fisk, Sunday 22 November 2015 19:28 BST Eisenhower famously sent some brusque advice to Anthony Eden in 1956 when he decided that Britain’s deceitful war in Egypt should come to an end. “Whoa, boy!” were his words. And they should …
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Nov 17 2015
France Has Been No Friend to Muslims By Gordon Adams, November 17, 2015 Once again, a violent jihadi terrorist attack has hit France, this time with at least 450 victims, 129 of them fatal. Rallying around the French flag, even pasting it over our Facebook avatars, follows, because an attack on European soil somehow …
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Nov 04 2015
Do those who flaunt the poppy on their lapels know that they mock the war dead? By Robert Fisk, 3 November 2014 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 were, …
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Oct 30 2015
Yes, the Civil War Was About Slavery By Bruce Gourley, December 24, 2010 INTRODUCTION Baptists and other white Americans North and South during the Civil War-era were unequivocal: secession, the existence of the Confederate States of America, and the Civil War were all the result of slavery, the immoral (or moral, depending on one’s race, …
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