Nov 25 2015

Their own culpability

How the United States helped create the Islamic State

By Juan Cole, November 23   Did the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 lead to our current crisis over the Islamic State? The question has been posed baldly in…  [more]

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Nov 25 2015

Original sin

The Politics of Thanksgiving Day

By William Loren Katz, November 26, 2014   With family excitement building with the approach of Thanksgiving, you would never know November was Native American History Month. We would do well to recognize Native American…  [more]

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Nov 23 2015

An almost Kafkaesque reality

Part 1:  I am so tired of having to explain why Palestinians deserve to live

By Dina Elmuti, November 19, 2015   Every day, I desperately attempt to make sense of the senseless. I feverishly try to patch and…  [more]

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Nov 23 2015

Historians and other nincompoops

Whoa there, David Cameron! Haste and rhetoric is no recipe for peace

By Robert Fisk, Sunday 22 November 2015 19:28 BST   Eisenhower famously sent some brusque advice to Anthony Eden in 1956 when he decided that Britain’s deceitful…  [more]

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Nov 21 2015

Oh brother where art thou?

    Dear editor, Oh my little brother, where art thou NOW?!  Week after week your letters, pregnant with petulant, prattling preachery raging against the black man in the White House, parade your naked paranoia and your ponderous morality for…  [more]

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Nov 20 2015

Zara’u fa akalna, nazra’u fa ya’kulun

Stories My Father Told Me

By Helen Zughaib with Elia Kamal Zughaib, November/December 2015    

Charity and Compassion

When Jiddu told my father this story, he prefaced it by saying his father had told it to him and he…  [more]

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Nov 20 2015

Between truth and rage

The Switch

By The Observer, November 04 2015   The Observer got out recently to talk to a few folks who have worked against the death penalty in Arkansas for years, the results of which you can read in…  [more]

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