The curse of the Kennedys strikes again
Death of Mary Richardson Kennedy again throws the spotlight on America’s most famous family… But for the family name she acquired at marriage, it might have been just a tale for the society pages: a handsome middle aged woman who had given up a successful career to raise children, only for the man [...]
Convicted war criminal and former Liberian President hits out bias of international law… Following his conviction for war crimes at a UN-backed Special Court, Charles Taylor -addressing the court- singled out the United States as he suggested that not everyone is subject to international law: President George W. Bush not too long ago [...]
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How a case of mistaken identity led to the execution of an innocent man in 1989… The recent US Republican primary campaign once again brought America’s use of the death penalty into the spotlight, following Rick Perry’s statement of certainty that the state of Texas had never put an innocent man to death. [...]
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The American minister who is secretly an atheist… Teresa MacBain has a secret, one she’s terrified to reveal. “I’m currently an active pastor and I’m also an atheist,” she says. I live a double life. I feel pretty good on Monday, but by Thursday — when Sunday’s right around the corner — I [...]
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Course discussed the starvation of Saudi Arabia and the destruction of Mecca and Medina… A course taught to US military officers considered that a ‘total war’ on the world’s Muslims, using ‘Hiroshima’ tactics, may be necessary to defeat Islamic terrorism. The course has now been withdrawn, and the officer who led it, Army Lt. [...]
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The man in the shadows of the struggle for desegregation… When we think back upon the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s we usually think of the marches and the fire hoses, of Martin Luther King and Eugene “Bull” Connor, of Brown v. Board of Education and Southern judges and grandiloquent presidential proclamations. We seldom think about the [...]
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Obama administration gives first detailed justification of ‘targeted killing’… President Obama’s counter-terrorism adviser has for the first time set out a case for the use of UAVs in targeting al Qaeda members. John Brennan went further than any previous official, and notably said that while attacks would not be carried out when there [...]
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Mitt Romney, along with many Republicans, sees success as self-defining… “I am being sunk by a society that demands success when all I can offer is failure,” says the ruined theater impresario Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks’s “The Producers.” Mitt Romney sees things differently: He is offering success to a society that seems to actually prefer [...]
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