Dec 01 2015

Somebody please tell me I’m wrong…

During our long, rainy drive home after Thanksgiving, my wife and I got bored and started channel-hopping on the radio.  We stopped for a while on the “Patriot” channel, long enough to catch up with what’s going on in the…  [more]

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Nov 25 2015

Daesh has a mother

Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It

By Kamel Daoud, Nov. 20, 2015   Black Daesh, white Daesh. The former slits throats, kills, stones, cuts off hands, destroys humanity’s common heritage and despises archaeology, women and non-Muslims. The latter…  [more]

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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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