Jun 14 2011

Occupied Bahrain

I saw these brave doctors trying to save lives – these charges are a pack of lies

By Robert Fisk, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 … Has the Khalifa family gone mad? Yesterday, the Bahraini royal family started an utterly fraudulent…  [more]

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Jun 14 2011

An extraordinary opportunity

Some Arab-Americans need more of the American

By Hussein Ibish, June 14, 2011 … The Arab-American community continues to suffer from the debilitating condition of operating primarily within an Arab rather than an American framework, and of approaching its political…  [more]

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Jun 12 2011

Botched imperial partitions

Tremors on mountains of tyranny

By Pankaj Mishra, June 13, 2011 … AT A dark moment in postcolonial history, when many US-backed despots seemed indestructible, the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz wrote: ”We shall witness [the day] when the…  [more]

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Jun 11 2011

Descent into darkness

Looking beyond Obama to ‘The Golden Age’

By Paul Rosenberg, 11 Jun 2011 15:53 … A few short weeks ago, President Obama was on top of the world – or so it seemed. He first pushed back against the…  [more]

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Jun 10 2011

Substantial convergence

God Is Not a Christian

By Desmond Tutu, 06/ 1/11 09:25 PM ET … The following is excerpted from the Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s new book, ‘God Is Not A Christian: And Other Provocations.’ This talk also comes …  [more]

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Jun 10 2011

Uninformed readings

What You Should Know Before Reading The Bible

By Kristin M. Swenson, Ph.D., 06/ 9/11 02:17 PM ET … This essay might, alternatively, be called “On Not Reading the Bible.” But then I must hastily add: I’m not against …  [more]

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Jun 10 2011

Who is Brian Haw?

St Francis of Assisi: a saint for our times

By Heather McDougall, Thursday 9 June 2011 11.43 BST … We are living through cuts to services and benefits that will disproportionately affect the poor. We have also seen a…  [more]

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