Sep 12 2011

Ankara’s declaration of independence

Turkey’s stance on Israel will reverberate in Washington

By , Monday 12 September 2011 21.30 BST … Turkey’s expulsion of the Israeli ambassador, the downgrading of its diplomatic relations with Israel, and the Erdogan government’s increasingly firm…  [more]

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Sep 11 2011

I did not know that

Jimmy Carter: ‘We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war’

By , Sunday 11 September 2011 … Where does Jimmy Carter live? Well, close your eyes and imagine the kind of…  [more]

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Sep 07 2011

Stateless socialism

What does it mean to be an ‘anarchist’?

By , Wednesday 7 September 2011 10.37 BST … Anarchists disdain the customary use of “anarchy” to mean “chaos” or “complete disorder”. For them it signifies the absence of a…  [more]

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Sep 07 2011

Being right means nothing

The imperial delusions of the United States

By Robert Jensen, 07 Sep 2011 12:47 … Ten years ago, critics of the United States’ mad rush to war were right, but it didn’t matter. Within hours after the 9/11 terrorist…  [more]

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Sep 07 2011

Herman Cain: Let’s use the Chilean model

9/11 – was there an alternative response?

By Noam Chomsky, 7:46am, September  6, 2011 … We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities  of September 11,  2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world.  On May…  [more]

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Sep 07 2011

A long and winding road

9/11 and its great transformations

By Cliff Schecter, 07 Sep 2011 15:07 … On September 11th, 2001, on what was a perfect morning-right up until the very moment a Boeing 767-223-ER slammed into the North Tower of the World…  [more]

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Sep 06 2011

Not just Obama they want to fail

Exposing religious fundamentalism in the US

By Paul Rosenberg, 06 Sep 2011 13:35 … With Representative Michele Bachmann’s victory in the Ames, Iowa straw poll, and Texas Governor Rick Perry’s triumphal entrance into the GOP presidential primary, there’s been…  [more]

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