Mar 01 2012

An embarrassing display of subservience

Dear Friends: I think we can safely assume that every rabbi in America will instruct his congregation this Saturday along the lines of this artfully-crafted set of talking points (below).  Every delegate to the AIPAC convention next week, and every…  [more]

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Feb 29 2012

A honey of a word

The regime calls it ‘cleaning’, but the dirty truth is plain to see

By Robert Fisk, Thursday 01 March 2012 … So it’s the “cleaning” of Baba Amr now, is it? “Tingheef” in Arabic. Did that anonymous Syrian government official…  [more]

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Feb 26 2012

From the cultish into the mainstream

America’s endless apocalypse

By Matthew Barrett Gross and Mel Gilles, Sunday, Feb 26, 2012 1:00 PM 14:21:17 CST … Few of us can clearly make out the form of history until it is well behind us. That helps us…  [more]

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Feb 26 2012

Choose your own Apocalypse

By Eli Valley, March  02, 2012 … With nods to Stanley Kubrick and Cecil B. DeMille, the Forward’s artist in  residence Eli Valley makes a choose-your-own adventure comic for Iran pundits. … http://forward.com/articles/151920/…  [more]

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Feb 25 2012

Unicycle-racing juggler failed to look serious

Arizona’s House of Cards

By , Friday, Feb. 24, 2012, at 7:44 PM ET … PHOENIX—Rep. Ruben Gallego invites me into the Arizona House of Representatives, and I take a seat near the lobbyists. Half a dozen…  [more]

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Feb 25 2012

Time is passing them by

Ghastly Outdated Party

By , February 25, 2012 … It’s finally sinking in. Republicans are getting queasy at the gruesome sight of their party eating itself alive, savaging the brand in ways that will long resonate. “Republicans being…  [more]

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Feb 25 2012

Whatever happens will come too late

Why the West pussyfoots around Assad

By Paul Vallely, Sunday 26 February 2012 … Some people are just unlucky. They get born in the wrong place. Like the Syrian city of Homs, where at least 1,770 people have been killed…  [more]

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