Dec 23 2012

The poet of God

What would Jesus think of Christmas today?

By Yasmin Alibhai Brown, Sunday 23 December 2012   A young man ran after me and tried in vain to get some change as I dashed through the doors of Bafta in…  [more]

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Dec 22 2012

Shock and anxiety syndrome

The disproportionate value of Israeli life

By Belen Fernandez, 22 Dec 2012 13:03   Following the conclusion of Operation “Pillar of Defence”, Israel’s latest bout of terror in Gaza, Israeli journalist Gideon Levy wrote in Ha’aretz: Since …  [more]

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Dec 21 2012

13 minutes in April

Transcript: Kathleen T. McFarland talks with Gen. David H. Petraeus

    McFarland: I’ve got something to say to you, by the way, directly from Roger Ailes. Petraeus: Oh, at .?.?. with no one else in the room? I hope?…  [more]

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Dec 21 2012

The big boss is bankrolling it

Why the US media ignored Murdoch’s brazen bid to hijack the presidency

By , Thursday 20 December 2012 11.41 EST   So now we have it: what appears to be hard, irrefutable evidence of Rupert Murdoch‘s ultimate…  [more]

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Dec 20 2012

Everyone backing gun-nuttery understood

From “Operation Wetback” To Newtown: Tracing The Hick Fascism Of The NRA

By Mark Ames, Dec 17th, 2012   Las Vegas, NV: I’ve been writing about these rampage murders for about a decade now, but Friday’s rampage massacre was…  [more]

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Dec 19 2012

Lesley Hazleton: Accidental Theologist

Lesley Hazleton at TEDxRainier: “Muhammad, You and Me”

By Garibaldi, 08 December 2012   Lesley Hazleton, one of our favorite “anti-Loons” describes herself as the “Accidental Theologist” by which she means that even though she is an agnostic Jew…  [more]

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Dec 19 2012

Late mercantilist heresy

The Christian right’s fight against the ‘war on Christmas’

By , Tuesday 18 December 2012 17.01 EST   I love this time of year: decking the halls with boughs of artificial holly, wrapping twinkly lights around anything that…  [more]

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