Sep 03 2012

Moral superiority is often asserted

William Hague is wrong… we must own up to our brutal colonial past

By Owen Jones, Monday 03 September 2012   Remember all that national soul-searching and self-flagellation over Empire and all the horrors committed in its name? No,…  [more]

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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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