Monthly Archives: December 2010

Funding illegal Israeli settlements? Priceless. | Crikey

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My hero Cy Twombly by Edmund de Waal | Books | The Guardian

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On Nixon Tapes, Disparaging Remarks About Ethnic Groups

  via nytimes.com Here is the utterly abhorrent Richard Nixon, showing the prejudices of a certain generation of American males, and their obsessive stereotyping of all others who were not them. Nixon’s policies almost look ‘progressive’ compared to the Republican … Continue reading

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Keeping Secrets WikiSafe

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Homosexuality in China: Collateral damage | The Economist

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Civil Administration wants Palestinians to submit requests in Hebrew only – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

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Clive Crook,Charles Krauthammer and The American Political Melodrama

http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2010/12/charles-krauthammer-is-the-fraud/ Dear Mr. Crook, Mr. Krauthammer has set the level of debate at the level of the schoolyard taunt and you have followed suit. ‘Stupid Democrats’ has the intellectual patina of Mr. Thomas Friedman’s ‘suck on this’. A  strategy  that … Continue reading

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Gay Bashing at the Smithsonian

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/opinion/12rich.html?_r=1&hp# Frank Rich is an indispensable ethical voice in American civic life! 

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Softdrinks,Sandwiches and Kleptocrats

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/soft-drinks-sandwiches-and-kleptocrats/?src=twt&twt=NytimesKrugman An American Public Intellectual with the cosmopolitan courage and understanding that an artist, too, has the capacity and the obligation, through their work, to illuminate all aspects of the human endeavor. That Mr. Krugman has the sagacity to remind … Continue reading

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Tax-Cut Deal: Sympathy for the President

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