22 January 2012
Booing the Golden Rule
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David Swanson
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. An important rule to live by. So is this corollary: Friends don't let friends watch presidential primary debates.

I think the clip at this link is a safe dose bit.ly/xVAIF6...
21 January 2012
Alleged terrorist reveals stockpile of bomb-making chemicals in Bangkok
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- When the United States Embassy issued a travel advisory about "foreign terrorists" in Bangkok last weekend, the warning may have prevented a massive car bombing in an area popular with Western tourists.

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18 January 2012
Church of the Dude, inspired by The Big Lebowski, sets up in Thailand
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- People who intuitively perceive 2,500-year-old Chinese and Greek concepts, while knowingly nod to California's detached hippie philosophy and quote droll lines from The Big Lebowski movie, are joining a revelatory...
17 January 2012
The Palestinian Arab In/Outsiders
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Jim Miles
"The Palestinian Arab In/Outsiders" is an apparently comprehensive text book on the newspapers and journals published in Palestine, and more specifically after the nakba, within the Israeli green line. It provides extensive references to...
16 January 2012
Thailand's Islamist war could become Yemen or Afghanistan, diplomats warn
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand's war against minority Islamist guerrillas in the south, which killed more than 5,000 people during the past eight years, could escalate into an international security crisis similar to Yemen or Afghanistan,...
16 January 2012
A moment of cynicism
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Robert Koehler
“But no matter how futile, repulsive or dysfunctional war may be,” Barbara Ehrenreich wrote in her book Blood Rites, “it persists.”
A fascinating story in the New York Times just after Christmas showed this persistence unfolding...

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