Oct 19 2014

Crossing Central Avenue

        Dear Editor, I, too, would like to thank First Church of Nazarene (on lovely, picturesque, bench-free Central Avenue) for its field of little white crosses.  My first thought was that the miniature Flanders Fields was a…  [more]

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Oct 12 2014

Ghost story

  On the right-of-way of the New York Central Railroad, track-walkers, sand-house men, “shacks” and section-hands used to tell this ghost story of Lincoln’s funeral train.  So said the Albany Evening Times: “Regularly in the month of April, about midnight…  [more]

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Oct 08 2014

Prepared, preconceived and planned

From Pol Pot to ISIS: “Anything that flies on everything that moves”

By John Pilger, 8 October 2014   In transmitting President Richard Nixon’s orders for a “massive” bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on…  [more]

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Sep 24 2014

I hate to besmirch ignorance

 

A really long response to a hateful email about Obama and Muslims

By Irene, Sunday, July 8, 2012   So, I got this email from my uncle. It’s one of those hateful chain mails that you usually just glance…  [more]

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Sep 23 2014

Sheer infantilisme

John Kerry’s rhetoric on Isis insults our intelligence and conceals the reality of the situation in Syria

By Robert Fisk, Sunday, 21 September 2014     John Kerry is becoming more and more like William McGonagall, the “worst poet in…  [more]

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Sep 16 2014

The Islamic State’s center of gravity

How to make Isis fall on its own sword

By in Fort Leavenworth, Tuesday 16 September 2014 11.00 EDT   The Islamic State (Isis) is without question a very brutal extremist group with origins in the insurgency…  [more]

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Sep 15 2014

Resurrection, reinvention and linguistics

Bingo! Here’s another force of evil to be ‘vanquished’

By Robert Fisk, Thursday 11 September 2014   Resurrection, reinvention and linguistics. Barack Obama did the lot. And now he’s taking America to war in Syria as well as Iraq. Oh…  [more]

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