Jan 16 2012

Because injustice is here

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

By Martin Luther King, Jr., 16 April 1963 … 16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise…  [more]

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Jan 15 2012

These moral contradictions

We’re all guilty of dehumanizing the enemy

By  Sebastian Junger, January 13 … The video that emerged in recent days appearing to show four U.S. Marines urinating on several dead Taliban fighters has outraged many people in this country. Secretary…  [more]

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Jan 15 2012

Protestant empire

Where Exactly Is Biblical Israel?

By , 1/14/12 05:07 PM ET … The phrase “Biblical Israel” often passes on the lips of Republican presidential contenders, representatives of the Netanyahu government, and Israeli settlers. But where exactly is this…  [more]

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Jan 14 2012

Is this land made for you and me?

Woody Guthrie, more relevant than ever

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Friday, Jan 13, 2012 9:53 AM 11:50:33 CST … The traveling medicine show known as the race for the Republican presidential nomination has moved on from Iowa…  [more]

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Jan 14 2012

A gentlemanly fashion

The marines urination video doesn’t show the real war crime

By , Friday 13 January 2012 13.47 EST … The video of US marines urinating on Afghan corpses does not shock me. Though their behavior is disgusting and…  [more]

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Jan 14 2012

Guilt beyond doubt

For the families of Haditha, this is a matter of honour

By , Friday 13 January 2012 16.30 EST … It was more than six years ago, but the massacre that took place at Haditha, western Iraq,…  [more]

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Jan 14 2012

Grovelling to Netanyahu

The ‘invented people’ stand little chance

By Robert Fisk, Saturday 14 January 2012 … Thank goodness we don’t have to hear Newt Gingrich for a while. His statement that the Palestinians were an “invented people” marked about the lowest point…  [more]

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