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What privatised war does to ethics; render them irrelevant
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Peace activists are clearly terrorists
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We buy oil from Saudi regime and they hate women
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How Canberra imprisons children with rapists
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Because that’s all many Jews have
What privatised war does to ethics; render them irrelevantPosted: 14 Jun 2011Evidence for the prosecution:
In December 2008, South Asian workers, two thousand miles or more from their homes, staged a protest on the outskirts of Baghdad. The reason: Up to 1,000 of them had been confined in a windowless warehouse and other dismal living quarters without money or work for as long as three months.
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Peace activists are clearly terroristsPosted: 14 Jun 2011Barack Obama’s America:
FBI agents took box after box of address books, family calendars, artwork and personal letters in their 10-hour raid in September of the century-old house shared by Stephanie Weiner and her husband.
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We buy oil from Saudi regime and they hate womenPosted: 13 Jun 2011Our addiction to the black gold has made us morally complicit in horrific discrimination. Farzaneh Milani writes in the New York Times:
The Arab Spring is inching its way into Saudi Arabia — in the cars of fully veiled drivers.
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How Canberra imprisons children with rapistsPosted: 13 Jun 2011Welcome to Australia, human rights abuser:
Three boys snatched from an impoverished Indonesian village by people smugglers have been held for months in an Australian jail with paedophiles, rapists and murderers.
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Because that’s all many Jews havePosted: 13 Jun 2011From the new book by American Jew Jack Ross:
The writer Irving Howe, who came to bitterly regret his alliance with the neoconservatives in his final years, gave a speech in 1989 foreseeing that “because the religion of most American Jews is not serious, it has become almost totally defined by Israel, and a major crisis will erupt as Israel’s actions become less and less defensible.” |