The ongoing business of slaughtering the other

Imploding the Myth of Israel

By Chris Hedges, Nov 4, 2013   Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation…  [more]

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This is a good start?

  Really?!  A friend of mine wrote me early this morning, clearly angry about some outrageous Facebook flummery she had just been exposed to.  Here’s how she started: So explain to me HOW the same birther folks can justify Ted…  [more]

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Listen to America

  Dear editor: Listen to America. Stop ObamaCare at all cost. Impeach Obama, get him out of there. He is destroying America. I don’t see why you people can’t see we don’t want a dictator. Is he the anti-Christ? We…  [more]

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Apathy is a rational reaction

Russell Brand on revolution:  “We no longer have the luxury of tradition”

By Russell Brand, 24 October 2013 9:58   When I was asked to edit an issue of the New Statesman I said yes because it was a…  [more]

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The US chose to kill my mother

Please tell me, Mr President, why a US drone assassinated my mother

By , Friday 25 October 2013 09.00 EDT   The last time I saw my mother, Momina Bibi, was the evening before Eid al-Adha. She…  [more]

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Iranian nukes, murderous Arabs and assimilation

   

Israel as a Totem for Jewish Identity

By Lisa Goldman, Oct 24, 2013 6:26 PM EDT   Jews are smarter than everyone else. A Chinese woman who visits a synagogue is surely shopping for a Jewish husband. Pakistan…  [more]

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Embracing hysterical paranoia

Rand Paul’s strategic Islamophobia

By , Friday, Oct 11, 2013 12:57 PM CDT   For normal Americans, the annual Values Voters Summit is an opportunity to take a look at the Republican Party and be appalled and amused…  [more]

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