Apr 16 2014

Finding Hitler

  Can you spot Adolf Hitler in this class of 10 year-olds?  Here’s a hint: think about the type of can-do assertive personality we Americans idolize in our athletes, businessmen, and politicians…   Photograph from the exhibition catalog: Hans-Ulrich Thamer…  [more]

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Apr 10 2014

66 years ago today

Remembering Deir Yassin

  On April 9 1948, fighters from the Irgun Zevai Leumi and Lohamei Herut Israel Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, a Palestinian village of roughly 600 people.  Around 107 villagers were killed during and…  [more]

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Mar 23 2014

The power to fashion their fate

Despite the cruelties heaped on them, Palestinian refugees’ spirit has not broken

By , Friday 21 March 2014 14.17 EDT   The only thing heard nowadays about the majority of the Palestinian people – those made refugees in …  [more]

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Mar 07 2014

Backfire effect

Here Are 5 Infuriating Examples of Facts Making People Dumber

By , Wed Mar. 5, 2014 3:00 AM GMT     On Monday, I reported on the latest study to take a bite out of the idea of…  [more]

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Mar 03 2014

Nationalistic religion, homophobia and sexism

Putin’s ‘Holy Russia’ Goes to War

By Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, 03/02/2014 7:52 pm EST   What do you get when you combine ultra-nationalist religious and political conservatism along with homophobia and sexism?  Some might say you get…  [more]

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Mar 03 2014

Well, blow me down!

Were it not for the French, Hezbollah would all be Syrians fighting on their own government’s side inside their own country

By Robert Fisk, Sunday 2 March 2014   Borders are becoming a bit odd in the Middle East. They…  [more]

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Mar 03 2014

You don’t have to listen

Don’t listen to Obama’s Ukraine critics: he’s not ‘losing’ – and it’s not his fight

By , Monday 3 March 2014 12.19 EST   In the days since Vladimir Putin sent Russian troops into the Crimea, it has…  [more]

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