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Religion and TerrorFar from the notion that the terrorist is without religion or terror has no religion, I believe that the terrorist is a deeply religious person albeit in the worst sense of the term. Like the nationalism of the 'football' and 'cricket' kind – which is a ‘base’ or c... |
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Review: Beaufort West by Mikhael SubotzkyIt is now not quite twenty years since the end of apartheid in South Africa, and things have not exactly played out as people had hoped. The country now has one of the highest rates of income equality in the world, a staggering AIDS/HIV rate, and an enormous problem with crime (the reasons for al... |
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And Then There’s This…Thursday, November 13th, 2008On Tuesday, both gold and silver started to decline at one of their usual times…about 3:00 a.m. New York time on Tuesday morning…with the bottom coming at the close of London trading. The price managed to recover somewhat after that…but once again (at 3:00 a.m. New York time ... |
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OBAMA: Sonal Shah joins the White House transition team, and gets smearedThe history of the Indian-American community is so brief - roughly the four decades since doctors, engineers and others started arriving in this country in large numbers - that the passage of even a few years seems like a long time. The community grows that much larger (and wealthier), its youth ... |
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Sasha Abramsky: The Long ExhaleWhen I went to bed last night, I was weeping; when I woke up in the middle of the night, I was still weeping. And when I opened my eyes this morning, with my one year old son sleeping peacefully in between my wife and me, I was still weeping. And, trust me, I don't weep on a dime. The tears runn... |
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Mark Green: 7 Days: Pre-Mortem on McCain...and Howard Dean on '08, w/ Huffington, Conason & GreenWhat went wrong with McCain? Nearly everything. But mostly, he ran an ok GOP campaign for 1952, 1968, 1980...but not 2008. A Cold-War candidacy in the age of Google? Let's put aside for a moment the phenomenon of Obama, his eloquence, equanimity, organizing skills. McCain was old-time religion i... |
