Sep 16 2011

Death Thou Art Dead

Duane Buck And Celebrating The Interruption Of Death

By , 9/16/11 01:52 PM ET … Last night death was interrupted. Duane Buck was set for execution. His execution would have been the second this week and the eleventh…  [more]

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Sep 16 2011

So basic, so banal

Israel does not want a Palestinian state. Period.

By Gideon Levy, 03:06 15.09.11 … What will we tell the world next week, at the UN? What could we say? Whether in the General Assembly or the Security Council, we…  [more]

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Sep 16 2011

The panic was on

The anthrax scare: not a germ of truth

By , Thursday 15 September 2011 12.00 EDT … We forget that less than a month after 9/11, Americans felt themselves under siege again. This time, the danger came from …  [more]

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Sep 15 2011

Stripped of their humanity

Israel’s missed opportunities

By Anwar Ibrahim, 15 Sep 2011 18:45 … In the prologue to The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem, the author Josephus tells us that works written earlier by others “were marred by inaccuracies and…  [more]

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Sep 14 2011

Catch-22

West Bank villagers’ daily battle with Israel over water

By , Wednesday 14 September 2011 12.51 EDT … The South Hebron Hills, sweltering in 34C heat and in its second consecutive year of drought, is a landscape of…  [more]

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Sep 13 2011

Tactics and mindsets

Ten reasons Palestine is right to bring its case to the UN

By Bradley Burston, 19:23 13.09.11 … There’s a certain implied danger in the idea of playing darts in the dark. Particularly when there are numerous players in…  [more]

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Sep 13 2011

Deep inequality persists

Trocmé, Christ and revolution

By , Tuesday 13 September 2011 14.02 BST … Jesus “was not concerned with the reform of certain details, but with overturning everything, including the entire economic hierarchy of society”, wrote André Trocmé in…  [more]

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