Feb 25 2012

Culture warrior made flesh

Rick Santorum: the apostle of America’s right

By , Saturday 25 February 2012 … Few American presidential campaigns have ever adopted a totem as unlikely as the sweater vest. But Rick Santorum, the far-right social conservative now…  [more]

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Feb 24 2012

Moon Nazis

The sci-fi movie Hollywood would not dare to make

By Kaleem Aftab, Monday 20 February 2012 … A Finnish sci-fi film about Nazis who have been living on the dark side of the moon since the end of the Second…  [more]

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Feb 22 2012

It’s complicated

Faith in the Back Row

By , 02/21/2012 12:22 pm … I am the son of a painter. On summer days, I have often found an excuse to sit near him as he worked. I might pretend to…  [more]

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Feb 22 2012

This is the price for our freedom

My husband, Khadar Adnan, has shed a light on Israel’s disregard for human rights

By Randa Musa, Wednesday 22 February 2012 08.30 EST … The name of my husband, Khadar Adnan, has now become known across the world.…  [more]

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Feb 21 2012

Might as well leave them to their fate

‘In Homs we are all wading in blood’

By , Tuesday 21 February 2012 15.29 EST … The corpse, already waxy, wrapped in its shroud, a crown of plastic flowers around its head, lies in a corner of…  [more]

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Feb 21 2012

They didn’t break my bones

Homs, city of torture

By Jonathan Littell, Monday 20 February 2012 18.50 EST … In Bashar al-Assad‘s Syria, it is not just forbidden to speak, demonstrate and protest: it is also forbidden both to give medical treatment,…  [more]

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Feb 19 2012

Puffed-up, self-regarding, vain, prickly and militant

You don’t have to believe in God to cherish the Church

By Mary Ann Sieghart, Monday 20 February 2012 … The Church of England couldn’t hope for a better enemy than Richard Dawkins. Puffed-up, self-regarding, vain, prickly and militant,…  [more]

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