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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Aug 06 2015
Obama Isolates Netanyahu as Head of Warmongers By Barak Ravid, Aug 06, 2015 12:34 AM WASHINGTON – Some 200 people gathered at a plaza named for Saudi King Salman at American University in Washington on Wednesday and waited for U.S. President Barack Obama’s address on the nuclear deal reached last month with Iran. A …
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Jul 17 2015
Dear editor, This is a letter about funny things. A random collection perhaps, but some readers may discern a veritable fountain of flummery, deep and wide, that flows through them all. Funny thing about that young bigot slaughtering all those people away yonder in a Charleston church just a few weeks ago. Suddenly there’s a …
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