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  • Benevolent Fascisme?
    4 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    so is it benevolent? fascisme "Say “fascism” to anyone you meet, and you will conjure images of coal-scuttle helmets, of Nazi boot-heels clicking in terrible unison down Berlin streets during dark days that only a few remaining among the living remember. Each day, members of the generation that heard those heels for themselves go into the ground, taking with them whispered words of warning. I saw it for myself, they whisper before they pass. See this tattooed number? See this scar? It (…)

  • Federalism: A Solution More for Israel than for Iraq
    9 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Nicola Nasser*
    Revealing both the double standards of U.S. policies and the propaganda-oriented Israeli advocacy of “minority rights” in the Arab world, the U.S.-allied Iraqi Kurdish and sectarian leaders reacted angrily to James Baker-Lee Hamilton report because it recommended what they perceived as a possible American retract from federalism in Iraq and the Israeli Jews condemned as a catastrophic declaration of war an Israeli Arabs’ “future visions” because those visions could lead (…)

  • Chris Hedges: America’s Holy Warriors
    3 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Chris Hedges
    Editor’s note: The former New York Times Mideast Bureau chief warns that the radical Christian right is coming dangerously close to its goal of co-opting the country’s military and law enforcement.
    The drive by the Christian right to take control of military chaplaincies, which now sees radical Christians holding roughly 50 percent of chaplaincy appointments in the armed services and service academies, is part of a much larger effort to politicize the military and law (…)

  • Pope Benedict: Free the Enslaved, the Opressed & the Victims of War
    27 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    World Leaders Call for Peace on Holiday By TARIQ PANJA
    (AP) Christian nuns pray inside the Grotto, the site where Christians believe Jesus was born, within the...
    LONDON (AP) - From soldiers who donned red Santa hats in Afghanistan to devoted worshippers visiting Bethlehem, Christians around the world celebrated Christmas with the sobering thoughts of peace and tolerance even as open war flared in Somalia.
    Pope Benedict XVI used his Christmas Day address at the Vatican to call for a (…)

  • Symbols of Human Freedom as Seen thru Galactic Eyes
    9 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Wiccan Symbol Placed On War Memorial Pentacle Not Previously Among ’Approved’ Religious Decorations At Military Cemeteries
    RENO, Nev., Dec. 3, 2006
    The plaque of Sgt. Patrick Stewart, after it was dedicated with a Wiccan symbol on it at the Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Fernley, Nev., Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006. Stewart and four other soldiers died when their Chinook helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan last year.
    Fast Facts
    About 1,800 active-duty service members (…)

  • Karen Armstrong on Religion and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    19 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Man is kind enough when he is not excited by Religion." - Mark Twain.
    Washington, D.C. - On a rainy, windy afternoon, Nov. 16, 2007, before a capacity audience at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, only a few blocks east of the U.S. Capitol, Karen Armstrong, a distinguished author, Feminist and scholar, addressed the potent issue of religion as it impacts on the Arab-Israeli conflict. The event was sponsored by the Council for the National Interest, (CNI), a feisty grassroots group, with (…)

  • A Return To Reality
    10 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    In the very week Saddam Hussein was sentenced to hang, George W. Bush has found his presidency in the gallows. Hussein now awaits his fate as a dead duck, while Bush will usher in his final two years as a lame duck. How bitterly ironic it must be that the Democratic landslide victory was fueled on outrage over the quagmire in Iraq and the president’s refusal to "change the course" even after the facts repeatedly changed on the ground. This is more a victory for reality than (…)

  • As Democrats, we must not fear in speaking of God
    3 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As Democrats, we must not fear in speaking of God By Mary MacElveen November 3, 2006
    If we are to believe that we live in a country based upon Christian values in which Bush and those like him wear God on their sleeve, as evident with the war in Iraq, in which Bush and the Republicans have broken some of the Ten Commandments. We must face up to the fact; we have not been living up to our Christian values. The reason why I only mention Christianity is because most that have led this (…)

  • WHY CATS EAT UNCOVERED MEAT
    26 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why Cats Eat Uncovered Meat
    By Peter Fredson
    October 26, 2006
    Recently Australia’s senior Muslim cleric Sheik Taj Din Al Hilaly gave a controversial sermon in Arabic to 500 worshippers in Sydney, independently translated by an SBS Arabic expert, part of which follows:
    “When it comes to adultery, it’s 90 percent the woman’s responsibility. Why? Because a woman owns the weapon of seduction. It’s she who takes off her clothes, shortens them, flirts, puts on make-up and powder and takes (…)

  • Dangerous Ideas
    19 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    There is, let me assure you, nothing more egocentrical than an embattled democracy. It soon becomes the victim of its own war propaganda...(attaching) to its own cause an absolute value which distorts its own vision on everything else. Its enemy becomes the embodiment of all evil. Its own side, on the other hand, is the center of all virtue.
    George Kennan
    Remember, not so long ago, when internet enthusiasts were hailing the transformative powers of open source codes and materials that (…)