Taking advantage of the Holocaust

Polish-Jewish sociologist compares West Bank separation fence to Warsaw Ghetto walls

By Roman Frister, 01:05 01.09.11 Sygmunt Bauman, the Jewish sociologist and one of the greatest philosophers of our time, castigated Israel harshly this week, saying it did not…  [more]

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It hates the federal

The Tea Party has a point about religion and the founding fathers

By , Wednesday 31 August 2011 12.30 BST There’s a presidential election coming up and, what do you know, the religious right is going to…  [more]

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Paraprosdokians

A bit of levity from my friend Sharifah… A paraprosdokian (plural paraprosdokians), from the Ancient Greek παρά (para, “against”) + προσδοκία (prosdokia, “expectation”), is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or…  [more]

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Rule of the pouvoir

Algeria sends the West a message by taking in Gaddafi’s brood

By Robert Fisk, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 When the Emir of Qatar flew to see President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria early this summer, he had one message to…  [more]

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Willfully blind

Dick Cheney: organ grinder to George Bush’s monkey

By , Tuesday 30 August 2011 18.30 BST On 31 March 1981, then Secretary of State Alexander Haig sat down in the White House situation room after the assassination…  [more]

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Politics of hate

Who funds Muslim-baiting in the US?

By MJ Rosenberg, 27 Aug 2011 13:21 It has been just about a decade since Islamophobia exploded in this country. That was of moment that the World Trade Center and Pentagon were…  [more]

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On a hill far away

…stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame. (from a hymn by George Bennard, 1873-1958) For at least the last two thousand years, Jerusalem (Yerushaláyim or al-Quds) has been in the business of building…  [more]

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