Jun 20 2011

No one will know

When the Messiah comes, Israel will deport him

By Bradley Burston, 11:22 06.01.11 … When the Messiah comes, he will be without papers. When the Messiah comes, he will be taken into a small room, off-white and chilled, with…  [more]

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Jun 20 2011

Your tax dollars at work

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Jun 19 2011

Inequality: made in the USA

(Not) spreading the wealth

The Washington Post, Saturday, June 18, 2011 … Growing share of income for the rich Inequality in the U.S. has has grown steadily since the 1970s, following a flat period after World War II. In…  [more]

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Jun 19 2011

Awash with rumours

Lies, damn lies, and reports of battlefield atrocities

By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday, 19 June 2011 … In war, accounts of atrocities need to be treated with scepticism. Surveying a battlefield where he had once fought, the great Confederate general Stonewall…  [more]

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Jun 19 2011

What the press does not see

Face the facts – Syria is an apartheid state

By Nick Cohen, Sunday 19 June 2011 … For a tyrant whose forces took 13-year-old Hamza Ali al-Khateeb, burned him, mutilated him, shattered his knee caps, cut off his penis…  [more]

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Jun 17 2011

Individualism amid barbarism

We can’t tell the victims to leave mass graves in peace

By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 18 June 2011 … The Syrians say they discovered a mass grave this week containing the bodies of murdered soldiers outside a town called Jisr…  [more]

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Jun 17 2011

Messianic mysticism & blind pseudo-heroism

Netanyahu and the Mystics of Safed

By Carlo Strenger, 15:38 17.06.11 … Future historians looking back at Israel in 2011 will shake their heads with disbelief. They will note that there were voices of reason who called for constructive…  [more]

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