How The Guardian told me to steer clear of Palestine

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/how-guardian-told-me-steer-clear-palestine

'Selma is now' says Obama ahead of visit to highlight abusive justice system

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/07/selma-barack-obama-speech-civil-rights

George Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq...... The people you are allowing to control your world are living a fantasy

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/07/iraq.usa?CMP=share_btn_fb

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Pope Francis arranges for homeless man to be buried in the Vatican

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/27/pope-francis-arranges-for-homeless-man-to-be-buried-in-the-vatican

Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad, leaked spy cables show

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/feb/23/israeli-intelligence-documents-iran-nuclear-bomb-video

The world has broken its promises about rebuilding Gaza – and the children will suffer

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/21/chris-gunness-gaza-aid-broken-promises-children-suffer

600 artists are joined by another 100. Over 100 artists announce a cultural boycott of Israel

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/13/cultural-boycott-israel-starts-tomorrow

Guardian Editor’s Hypocrisy on Anti-semitism | Dissident Voice

Guardian Editor’s Hypocrisy on Anti-semitism | Dissident Voice

Iranian president says nuclear deal with the west is getting closer The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/03/iranian-president-nuclear-deal-west

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The crisis is compounded since we have been told for 30 years that the route to universal wellbeing is to abandon the expense of justice and equity and so allow the judgments of the market to go unobstructed

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/25/inequality-has-become-challenge-how-good-we-can-be-extract-will-hutton?CMP=fb_gu

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If you don’t understand how people fall into poverty, you’re probably a sociopath

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/24/if-you-dont-understand-poverty-youre-a-sociopath

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Tzipi Livni says Israeli prime minister leading country into 'diplomatic isolation'

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/23/israel-opposition-netanyahu-isolation

***** Is American Sniper historically accurate? Clint Eastwood’s simplistic film about one of the deadliest snipers in US history piles on Bush-era propaganda and sharp-shoots the facts

Is American Sniper historically accurate?

Clint Eastwood’s simplistic film about one of the deadliest snipers in US history piles on Bush-era propaganda and sharp-shoots the facts

http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/jan/20/why-american-snipers-historical-dishonesty-misleads?CMP=share_btn_tw

***** Shlomo Sand: ‘I wish to resign and cease considering myself a Jew’ ... "Now, having painfully become aware that I have undergone an adherence to Israel, been assimilated by law into a fictitious ethnos of persecutors and their supporters, and have appeared in the world as one of the exclusive club of the elect and their acolytes, I wish to resign and cease considering myself a Jew."...... GREAT GREAT GREAT SCHOLAR, WRITER, HUMAN BEING... JEW.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/10/shlomo-sand-i-wish-to-cease-considering-myself-a-jew

The popular belief that religion is the cause of the world’s bloodiest conflicts is central to our modern conviction that faith and politics should never mix. But the messy history of their separation suggests it was never so simple. Armstrong

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/-sp-karen-armstrong-religious-violence-myth-secular

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“We are united – Muslims, Catholics, Jews, we want to live peacefully together,” one woman told reporters.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/11/paris-france-anti-terror-rally-massive-show-unity

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Paris policeman’s brother: ‘Islam is a religion of love. My brother was killed by terrorists, by false Muslims’

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/10/charlie-hebdo-policeman-murder-ahmed-merabet?CMP=fb_gu

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The 'real' American Sniper: Chris Kyle, a US navy Seal from Texas, was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and claimed to have killed more than 255 people during his six-year military career. In his memoir, Kyle reportedly described killing as “fun”, something he “loved”; he was unwavering in his belief that everyone he shot was a “bad guy”. “I hate the damn savages,” he wrote. “I couldn’t give a flying fuck about the Iraqis.” He bragged about murdering looters during Hurricane Katrina.

War is not a big-budget Hollywood action film starring Bradley Cooper...
Chris Kyle, a US navy Seal from Texas, was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and claimed to have killed more than 255 people during his six-year military career. In his memoir, Kyle reportedly described killing as “fun”, something he “loved”; he was unwavering in his belief that everyone he shot was a “bad guy”. “I hate the damn savages,” he wrote. “I couldn’t give a flying fuck about the Iraqis.” He bragged about murdering looters during Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/06/real-american-sniper-hate-filled-killer-why-patriots-calling-hero-chris-kyle

RogerWaters: I have nothing against Jews or Israelis, and I am not antisemitic. I deplore the policies of the Israeli government in the occupied territories and Gaza. They are immoral, inhuman and illegal. I will continue my non-violent protests as long as the government of Israel continues with these policies.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/14/pink-floyd-frontman-fury-israel-nazis

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***** ABSOLUTE MUST READ: The real inspiration for Eko Atlantic comes not from these men but the dreamworlds of rampant capitalism, stoked by a successful, thirty year global campaign to claw back gains in social security and unchain corporations from regulation – what we now know as neoliberalism

ABSOLUTE MUST READ: The real inspiration for Eko Atlantic comes not from these men but the dreamworlds of rampant capitalism, stoked by a successful, thirty year global campaign to claw back gains in social security and unchain corporations from regulation – what we now know as neoliberalism  http://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2014/jan/21/new-privatized-african-city-heralds-climate-apartheid