Bigging themselves up

Fantasy warriors strike again

By Joan Smith, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 One of the most disconcerting things about Friday’s mass murders in Norway is the physical appearance of the man arrested in connection with the killings. Posing for a…  [more]

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Into a frenzy

Christian Zionists unite in D.C. to express support for Israel

By Natasha Mozgovaya, 03:50 20.07.11 Over 5000 Christians, mainly Evangelicals, gathered this week at the Convention Center in Washington for the annual conference of the organization CUFI, Christians…  [more]

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Direct challenge

US House Committee saves Israeli aid in foreign aid cut

By Ran Dagoni, 21 July 11 12:13 The US House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday cut the Obama administration’s $51 billion 2012 budget request for the State Department and foreign…  [more]

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It could happen here

Anders Behring Breivik and the influence industry of rage

By , Monday, July 25, 6:50 PM   The monster who admitted slaughtering at least 76 innocent victims in Norway was animated by the same blend of paranoia,…  [more]

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Just as fantastical

Breivik and His Enablers

By Roger Cohen, July 25, 2011 LONDON — On one level Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian responsible for the biggest massacre by a single gunman in modern times, is just a particularly murderous psychotic loner:…  [more]

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Broadband terrorism

Slaughter was killer’s appetiser. It is the trial that is his main course

By Dr. Matthew Feldman, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 The heart-stopping events of 22 July 2011 appear to be the work of a far-right ideologue acting alone…  [more]

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We’re in a frightening place

The news coverage of the Norway mass-killings was fact-free conjecture

By , Sunday 24 July 2011 22.07 BST I went to bed in a terrible world and awoke inside a worse one. At the time of writing,…  [more]

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