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21 October 2013
Making Peace with War
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Robert Koehler
What if we had politicians who believed in the abolition of war with as much passion as the Republican right believes in the abolition of taxes?

For me, the question that immediately follows is: What kind of politics draws...
20 October 2013
Singapore's Haj pilgrims to Mecca are younger & spending more
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Muslims in prosperous Singapore are spending more money when they travel on a religious haj pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, compared with previous years when they scrimped and saved, and they are also now going when...
20 October 2013
If Hitler didn't exist the Pentagon would have to invent him
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David Swanson
When video of the October 14th edition of Thom Hartmann's TV show appears online (here) it will include him asking me to justify not attacking Hitler. Thom has asked me this repeatedly during multiple appearances on his show, each time a...
19 October 2013
The spotlight redirects to drones
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Nicholas Hills

For a country that prides itself on the transparency with which it governs, the United States has suffered a few too many hiccups of late. Even by the standards of many politically unfastened observers, revelations concerning the data...

17 October 2013
Reds under the bed: the ghost of McCarthy has a British accent
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Lawrence Richards
Before Fox News, there was the Daily Mail. If Fox News is a howling Tea Partier, the Daily Mail is his even more insane great uncle, the old master, the one who invented the game. For over a century they have printed stories to support...
14 October 2013
2,000 lashes of the whip & 10 years in jail for "Naked Dancing" in Saudi Arabia
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A Saudi Arabian court sentenced four men to prison for up to 10 years, plus up to 2,000 lashes with a whip, after they were convicted in what the local media dubbed as the "naked dancing" case, Al-Sharq newspaper...

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