Dec 18 2011

Feliz Navidad 2011

Merry Christmas (or click here for your choice of alternative winter holidays) to all, from high atop the Fidel Castro observation tower, overlooking the United Nations penal facility for war criminals (formerly known as Guantanamo Bay detention camp)… Note: This…  [more]

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Dec 17 2011

At the point of death

Trial of the Will

By Christopher Hitchens, January 2012 … Death has this much to be said for it: You don’t have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.…  [more]

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Dec 17 2011

To slip betimes away

Postscript: Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011

By , December 16, 2011 … We were friends for more than thirty years, which is a long time but, now  that he is gone, seems not nearly long enough. I was rather nervous…  [more]

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Dec 16 2011

Grow your own

The parable of the allotments

By , Thursday 15 December 2011 12.53 EST … Last week I challenged the idea that religiosity is more about practice than belief with evidence that most religious people appear to have a…  [more]

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Dec 16 2011

Militarised mendacity

Last Post in Iraq: this is the death knell of the American empire

By , Thursday 15 December 2011 09.30 EST … So the Yanks are going home. Apart from the thousands of their servicemen and women…  [more]

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Dec 16 2011

Wise to fear

Was Democracy Just a Moment?

By Robert D. Kaplan, Friday, December 16, 2011 … IN the fourth century A.D. Christianity’s conquest of Europe and the Mediterranean world gave rise to the belief that a peaceful era in world politics…  [more]

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Dec 15 2011

Dona nobis pacem

Peace on earth? The end of the Iraq war

By , 11:01 AM ET, 12/15/2011 … “Peace on earth!” (Luke 2:14) heralded the angels, announcing the birth of Jesus. It is appropriate, in this Advent season, when…  [more]

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