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Clinton, butterflies and Bin Laden
The butterfly effect of using Shakil Afridi to locate Osama bin Laden has resulted in attacks on health workers today.
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Batman and Bilal
Like Batman and Nightrunner; Islam and the Republican-right are pairings that reflect the times we live in.
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Culture of violence
Gun culture in US encourages individualism. It fosters a society of individuals — everyone isolated from each other.
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‘Approach women like you do wild animals’
It is strange how we think of women as wild animals, discursively establishing inequalities and excusing sexual abuse.
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On nerve gas and morning sickness
Newsbytes from Syria have taken a backseat to the headline-catching, morning sickness of the pregnant Catherine.
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Blown to bits
Through the use of drones Obama’s Administration rejects international convention that condemn extrajudicial killing.
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Thackeray: the cartoonist who became a cartoon
Thackeray became a man held hostage to an image — an image that burned with xenophobic hatred.
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Skyfalling Petraeus
He is not a victim. Distinguished military generals are not virtuous nor are they eminently good people.
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Born in the USA
Springsteen was right when he said that Obama was the only difference between the American dream & American reality.
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Surging Sandy
It is ironic that it took a tidal surge to interrupt the US presidential campaign, a week before the Nov 6 election.