The Indispensable People? The Collapse of Western Morality By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Weekend EditionSeptember 24 - 26, 2010Yes, I know, as many readers will be quick to inform me, the West never had any morality. Nevertheless things have gotten worse. In hopes that I will be permitted to make a point, permit me to acknowledge that the US dropped nuclear bombs on two Japanese cities, fire-bombed Tokyo, that Great Britain and the US fire-bombed Dresden and a number of other German cities, expending more destructive force, according to some historians,...
Monday, 27 September 2010
Steal From the Poor, Give to the Rich
Steal From the Poor, Give to the Rich The Redistribution of Wealth By PATRICK IRELANSeptember 27, 2010The United States is undergoing a great redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich. President Obama and the Congress have done nothing to alter this trend. Despite the corporate media’s obsession with the alleged differences between the Democrats and the Republicans, this transfer of wealth has increased in both size and speed regardless of the party in power. The number of poor people has steadily increased and their loss of income has...
The Danish Cartoon Affair
How and Why It All Began The Danish Cartoon Affair By RUNE ENGELBRETH LARSEN Weekend EditionSeptember 24 - 26, 2010On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, some of which were extremely demonizing in their outspoken anti-Muslim symbolism. Four months later violent protests erupted outside Danish embassies in some Muslim countries, and the terror threat against Denmark increased dramatically. Yet what happened during those four months, and could the escalation of the crisis have been...
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