20 April 2013

Cluster Bombs Come Home » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Cluster Bombs Come Home 
In sync with media outlets across the country, the New York Times put a chilling headline on Wednesday’s front page: “Boston Bombs Were Loaded to Maim, Officials Say.” The story reported that nails and ball bearings were stuffed into pressure cookers, “rigged to shoot sharp bits of shrapnel into anyone within reach of their blast.”
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One Friday, at noontime, U.S.-led NATO forces dropped cluster bombs on the city of Nis, in the vicinity of a vegetable market. “The bombs struck next to the hospital complex and near the market, bringing death and destruction, peppering the streets of Serbia’s third-largest city with shrapnel,” a dispatch in the San Francisco Chronicle reported on May 8, 1999. 

17 April 2013

What religion has contributed to the world March/April 2013

13 April 2013

Orthodox Jewish man photographed covering himself in plastic bag during flight because faith forbids him to fly over cemeteries

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Stupid, simply stupid! In case of the emergency, he cannot get oxygen or put on the life jacket. That's a violation of air safety requirement!

07 April 2013

The Big Debates: Islam Or Atheism - Which Makes More Sense?

The debate which Lawrence Krauss almost walked out is now available.