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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Jan 14 2012

Core values

This is not about ‘bad apples’. This is the horror of war

By Robert Fisk, Friday 13 January 2012 … So now it’s snapshots of US Marines pissing on the Afghan dead. Better, I suppose, than the US soldiers pictured…  [more]

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Jan 12 2012

Warmongers’ wet dream

What War With Iran Might Look Like

By , Thursday, 12 January 2012 16:34 … Back in September 2007 I wrote an article for Antiwar.com called “What World War III May Look Like.” The article, which…  [more]

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Jan 11 2012

When a country attacks its own

Guantánamo at 10: the defeat of liberty by fear

By , Wednesday 11 January 2012 09.00 ES … On 11 January 2002, the United States began showing major signs of what I call “Guantánamo syndrome”, after one of…  [more]

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Jan 09 2012

Really?

Jesus doesn’t need a leg up, Justin Bieber

By , Saturday 7 January 2012 … We’ve had more than 2,000 years of Christian history and, safe to say, they haven’t been entirely uneventful ones thus far. There have…  [more]

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Jan 09 2012

Are you French Canadian?

President Romney Meets Other World Leaders

By , January 16, 2012 … When Mitt Romney introduces himself to voters, he has a  peculiar habit of guessing their age or nationality, often incorrectly. (A  regular query: “Are you French…  [more]

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Jan 08 2012

Gimme that old time religion

Blessed are the un-cool

By Rachel Held Evans, Jun 15, 2011 … People sometimes assume that because I’m a progressive 30-year-old who enjoys Mumford and Sons and has no children, I must want a super-hip church—you know, the kind…  [more]

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