Source: Town Hall
One of the most brilliant and famous allegories in the history of Western literature is J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Whole books have been written on its multiple layers of allegorical subtext. One of my favorites is the ri ...
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Source: Firedoglake
Mr. President, if I were a professional con artist paid to give you the pros and cons on engaging in a war in Syria, here’s what they would be: As you know, former president Clinton, probably understood by many to also be speaking on behalf ...
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Source: Dissident Voice
About the time Barack Obama ordered the drone strike that killed Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old American kid Facebooked his second-rate choice of hip-hop favorites. I say “second-rate,” because Abdul was my son’s age almost exact ...
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Source: Ain't It Cool News
Logo by Kristian HornWhat the ...
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Source: Londonist
Attracting more than 30,000 people and now in its fourteenth year, East End Film Festival (EEFF) has established itself as one of the London’s major film events. As befits EEFF’s increased visibility, its programme includes a number of high profi ...
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Source: AntiWar.com
Director Rick Rowley and journalist Jeremy Scahill’s much talked about docu-thriller Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield opened on June 7 to strong positive reviews. A companion piece to Scahill’s book of the same name, Dir ...
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Source: Globe and Mail
In the days after the Osama bin Laden assassination, the group that carried it out – part of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) – emerged from the shadows to become feted as national heroes. The fact that JSOC is “the ...
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Source: Chicago Tribune
Richard Rowley's documentary "Dirty Wars" is a sobering account of acclaimed journalist Jeremy Scahill's reporting on the war on terror in the Middle East and Africa, and the effect its clandestine operations have had not just on those shaken ...
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Source: The Huffington Post
Twelve years ago on June 11, 2001, the No Kill sheltering movement went from the theoretical to the real. As I drove into the parking lot for the first time as the head of the open admission animal control sh ...
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