Mar 26 2013

Visual analogy for the disparity

Incomes of bottom 90 percent grew $59 in 40 years

By , Monday, Mar 25, 2013 04:12 PM CDT   Pulitzer Prize-winner David Cay Johnston has highlighted yet more statistics that illuminate the spike in income inequality in…  [more]

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Mar 25 2013

The scriptures according to basic cable

History Channel’s The Bible series is worse than reality TV

By , Monday 25 March 2013 09.15 EDT   The History Channel more or less abandoned the pretext of history years ago. As programs like “UFO Hunters”, “Swamp…  [more]

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Mar 24 2013

Following different Jesuses

Gordon Cosby’s Jesus

By Dean Snyder, March 21   Years ago when I was trying to figure out how to be a faithful and effective pastor in the city where I served at the time, I traveled to Washington, D.C.,…  [more]

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Mar 24 2013

We are alive but not living

Iraq: ‘You didn’t fall… we pushed you’

By Alia Brahimi, 21 Mar 2013 11:06   “Are you here to work or… work?” a Basra airport security guard asked sympathetically.  I was standing on a small wooden platform behind a…  [more]

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Mar 24 2013

And it did not matter

Iraq and the reinvention of reality

By Sarah Kendzior, 24 Mar 2013 10:35   The worst thing about the Iraq war was not that people got away with lying. It was that they did not – and it did not…  [more]

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Mar 23 2013

Three flickers of light

What America Learned in Iraq

By John A. Nagl, March 19, 2013   The costs of the second Iraq war, which began 10 years ago this week, are staggering: nearly 4,500 Americans killed and more than 30,000 wounded, many…  [more]

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Mar 23 2013

Resurrection

The Crucifixion of Tomas Young

By Chris Hedges, Mar 10, 2013   I flew to Kansas City last week to see Tomas Young. Young was paralyzed in Iraq in 2004. He is now receiving hospice care at his home.…  [more]

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