Apr 10 2013

Admonitions of Sol Alinsky

Prayer for progressives

Dear editor: A compliment to Judy Gallagher for her letter to the editor recently. Judy punctured the thin gruel of character assassination practiced by our coterie of progressive writers, with grace and elegant style. Evidently there is…  [more]

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Apr 07 2013

Very Rare Pictures of Beirut

The following images and text were copied from a Powerpoint attachment to an email forwarded by Ray Close on4/6/2013. Enjoy this glimpse of a magical Beirut that is no more...

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Apr 05 2013

So many

True costs of Iraq War whitewashed by fuzzy maths

By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, Apr 5, 2013   ‘So many’, wrote TS Eliot, reflecting on the waste land left by the First World  War. “I had not thought death had undone…  [more]

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Apr 02 2013

Seeds of apathy and evil that were sown

Israeli cruelty reached a point of no return in the 2008-09 Gaza war

By Gideon Levy, Mar.31, 2013   She was standing there screaming, the veins in her neck seeming about to burst. “What’s happened to you − have…  [more]

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Mar 31 2013

Like selling Bibles to believers

Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens: New Atheists flirt with Islamophobia

By , Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 02:00 PM CDT   Richard Dawkins, the preppy septuagenarian and professional atheist whose work in the field of evolutionary biology informs his godless worldview,…  [more]

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Mar 30 2013

Israel was the main issue

The Neocons Won

By Gary Leupp, Weekend Edition March 29-31, 2013   Reading an assortment of commentaries (“retrospectives”) on the tenth anniversary of the U.S. war on Iraq, and onset of the horrific occupation, I find most center their discussion…  [more]

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Mar 29 2013

Forgive us

What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff?

By Shane Claiborne, November 18, 2009, 9:05 AM   To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing  friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry that so often  the…  [more]

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