By the Rev. Howard Bess
April 10, 2010
We call Chapters 5, 6 and 7 of the Matthew Gospel the Sermon on the Mount. It is without question our finest summary of the teachings of Jesus.
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Saturday, April 10, 2010
Friday, April 09, 2010
Letting Coal Miners Die in West Virginia
By Michael Winship
April 9, 2010
April 9, 2010
The high cost of energy in America was paid in human lives this week, with the deaths of more than two dozen miners in a massive explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia. It's the worst mine disaster in a quarter of a century.
Watching Innocent Iraqis Die
By Robert Parry
April 9, 2010
The next time CNN’s Wolf Blitzer boasts about George W. Bush’s “successful surge” in Iraq or Newsweek hails “Victory at Last,” you should think of the video released by Wikileaks.org this week showing the killing of a group of Iraqi men, including two Reuters newsmen, as they walked nonchalantly through the streets of Baghdad.
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April 9, 2010
The next time CNN’s Wolf Blitzer boasts about George W. Bush’s “successful surge” in Iraq or Newsweek hails “Victory at Last,” you should think of the video released by Wikileaks.org this week showing the killing of a group of Iraqi men, including two Reuters newsmen, as they walked nonchalantly through the streets of Baghdad.
Read on.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Murder Replaces Torture, Brilliant!
By David Swanson
April 8, 2010
I've been reading about the history of torture, including John T. Parry's new book Understanding Torture: Law, Violence, and Political Identity. Parry gives a history of torture in Europe and the United States through the twentieth century, establishing its pervasiveness, and the repetitiveness of the excuses and legalistic machinations used to allow it.
Read on.
April 8, 2010
I've been reading about the history of torture, including John T. Parry's new book Understanding Torture: Law, Violence, and Political Identity. Parry gives a history of torture in Europe and the United States through the twentieth century, establishing its pervasiveness, and the repetitiveness of the excuses and legalistic machinations used to allow it.
Read on.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Obama, NYT Keep Israeli Nuke Secrets
By Robert Parry
April 7, 2010
Overall, the New York Times praises President Barack Obama’s revised policy on when to launch nuclear attacks, though agreeing with some critics that it was a mistake to continue brandishing nukes at Iran, the only non-nuclear-armed state still being threatened.
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April 7, 2010
Overall, the New York Times praises President Barack Obama’s revised policy on when to launch nuclear attacks, though agreeing with some critics that it was a mistake to continue brandishing nukes at Iran, the only non-nuclear-armed state still being threatened.
Read on.
CIA Assigned to Kill US Citizen
By Jason Leopold
April 7, 2010
The Obama administration has lowered another legal barrier shielding Americans from extrajudicial punitive action by their own government, in this case authorizing the CIA to kill a U.S. citizen suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda in Yemen and links to two attacks inside the United States last year.
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April 7, 2010
The Obama administration has lowered another legal barrier shielding Americans from extrajudicial punitive action by their own government, in this case authorizing the CIA to kill a U.S. citizen suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda in Yemen and links to two attacks inside the United States last year.
Read on.
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Obama Threatens Iran with Nukes
By Robert Parry
April 6, 2010
April 6, 2010
In readjusting U.S. policy on when to launch a nuclear strike, President Barack Obama has repudiated the use of nukes against non-nuclear states with the exception of Iran, which he termed an “outlier” along with North Korea.
Monday, April 05, 2010
Is Vatican Guilty in Child-Sex Scandal?
By Robert Parry
April 5, 2010
April 5, 2010
Often the worst scandals are ones that have become engrained as business as usual within an organization or a society, not entirely accepted but tolerated by the Old Boys Network in command, like racial segregation, anti-Semitism, bias against women – or in the case of the Vatican, pedophilia.
Read on.Sunday, April 04, 2010
Making Aggressive War OK, for Some
By David Swanson
April 4, 2010
When my friend Jodie Evans recently tried to make a citizen's arrest of Karl Rove, he declared the Downing Street Minutes to be "a complete fabrication." Of course, this "complete fabrication" was actually the minutes of an official meeting held by then British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Read on.
April 4, 2010
When my friend Jodie Evans recently tried to make a citizen's arrest of Karl Rove, he declared the Downing Street Minutes to be "a complete fabrication." Of course, this "complete fabrication" was actually the minutes of an official meeting held by then British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Read on.
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