Mar 21 2012

A baseline for morality

Madness is not the reason for this massacre

By Robert Fisk, Saturday 17 March 2012 … I’m getting a bit tired of the “deranged” soldier story. It was predictable, of course. The 38-year-old staff sergeant who massacred 16 Afghan civilians,…  [more]

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Mar 20 2012

Whether we like it or not

Did Jesus Exist?

By , 03/20/2012  7:25 am … In a society in which people still claim the Holocaust did not happen, and in which there are resounding claims that the American president is, in fact, a…  [more]

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Mar 17 2012

Glittery geegaws of the plausible

Mike Daisey’s betrayal of This American Life’s truth – and my trust

By , Friday 16 March 2012 21.10 EDT … There are lies and there are lies and there are lies. The Protocols of the Elders of…  [more]

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Mar 14 2012

A crucial part of their faith

Wearing a Cross to Work

Announced by Archdruid Eileen, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 … I was musing on the great Wearing A Cross to Work controversy, if it could be called that. Overall I’m not convinced there is much persecution…  [more]

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Mar 13 2012

Very good work

Massacres are the inevitable result of foreign occupation

By , Tuesday 13 March 2012 18.20 EDT … It was an “isolated incident”, US officials insisted. The murder of 16 Afghan civilians as they slept, Hillary Clinton declared, was…  [more]

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Mar 10 2012

Smug fecundity

Romney, Santorum and archaic ideas on fertility

By  , March 2, 2012 … Between them, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have as many children — 12 — as there were tribes of Israel. Ron Paul has five of…  [more]

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Mar 07 2012

Converting annihilationist rhetoric into reality

A world map without Lebanon

By Belen Fernandez, 07 Mar 2012 16:03 … For all of the ruckus made over past decades about an alleged plot by various groupings of Arabs and Muslims to drive the state of Israel…  [more]

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