Nov 20 2011

More compassionate than the city

A historical precedent that might prove a bonus for Occupy Wall Street

By , Saturday 19 November 2011 12.00 EST … This Tuesday’s pre-dawn destruction of the Zuccotti Park encampment of Occupy Wall Street by New York City…  [more]

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Nov 20 2011

Hey, America!

Is pizza a vegetable? Well, Congress says so

By , Friday 18 November 2011 10.21 EST … Hey, America! The GOP is, yet again, looking out for you. This week, Congress took a break from voting to make…  [more]

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Nov 19 2011

“It’s me…It’s me.”

Ukraine, 1942. What are we seeing?

By Robert Fisk, Saturday November 19 2011 … In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, a Polish postal official working for the resistance opened a letter sent by a German soldier to his family. Inside was…  [more]

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Nov 19 2011

Iconography

The Occupy movement now has its iconic image of martyrdom

By , Friday 18 November 2011 09.01 EST … Every nascent political movement needs martyrs. Even the sensible British labour movement, whose history is mostly peaceful and overwhelmingly…  [more]

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Nov 18 2011

Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez

‘Obama the Antichrist’ and end-times doctrine

By , Friday 18 November 2011 14.29 EST … Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, a 21 year old from Idaho Falls, Idaho was charged this week with attempting to assassinate Barack Obama by firing…  [more]

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Nov 18 2011

Company came

Why the West is Demonizing Iran

By Stuart Littlewood, November 17, 2011 … When new recruits join British Petroleum (BP) they are fed romantic tales about how the company came into being. William Knox D’Arcy, a Devon man, studied…  [more]

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Nov 16 2011

Letting ourselves be changed

Celebrating the 1611 King James Bible

By , Wednesday 16 November 2011 12.33 EST … This is the text of a sermon delivered at a Thanksgiving service in Westminster Abbey for the 400th anniversary of the 1611 authorised …  [more]

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