Sep 03 2012

Defining what is and isn’t reality

Saving ‘Lyin’ Ryan’

By Mark Hertsgaard, 03 Sep 2012 09:40   No doubt about it, Paul Ryan’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention the other night was a daring display, especially for a guy with his last name.…  [more]

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Sep 03 2012

The Grand Old Party illusion

Cruel Conservatives Throw a Masquerade Ball

By , September 1, 2012   MESSAGE: They care. Republicans care deeply. They really do. They care deeply about making us think that they care deeply. That’s why they knocked themselves out…  [more]

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Sep 03 2012

Superficial fancies are so ridiculous

In the Shadow of Fiction: How Television Is Making (Up) Muslim History

By , 31/08/2012   In Channel 4’s Islam: the Untold Story, aired 28 August, British writer Tom Holland – garbed Indiana Jones-style in…  [more]

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Sep 03 2012

Better bashed, than embraced

Not all Republicans are Islamophobes but all Islamophobes are Republicans

By Faheem Younus, 05:49 PM ET, 08/29/2012   The straw man of the famous post-Sept. 11 slogan, “Not every Muslim is a terrorist but every terrorist is a Muslim” was…  [more]

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Sep 03 2012

God loves Republicans

Why Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan believe wealthiness is next to godliness

By , Saturday 1 September 2012 10.00 EDT   God loves Republicans, as they’ll be the first to tell you. A Florida pastor is taking credit…  [more]

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Sep 03 2012

What should we teach our children?

Why I had no choice but to spurn Tony Blair

By , Saturday 1 September 2012   The immorality of the United States and Great Britain’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003, premised on the lie that Iraq…  [more]

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Sep 03 2012

Bob Jones textbooks

Republican religious fundamentalists would rewrite American history

By , Thursday 30 August 2012 09.00 EDT   It is always good sport to tweak the noses of American religious fundamentalists, particularly at election time, and you can never say…  [more]

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