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Webバージョン  |  アップデート設定  |  登録解除 いいね ツイート 転送 http://endofsecrets.blogspot.com Morsi: Egypt’s New Pharaoh Posted by Craig Brown on 17 December, 2012 Chris Hedges When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran after 14 years in exile on Feb. 1, 1979, he set out to destroy the secular opposition forces, including the Communist Party of Iran, which had been instrumental in bringing down the shah. Khomeini’s declaration of an Islamic government, supported by referendum, saw him rewrite the constitution, close opposition newspapers and ban opposition groups including the National Democratic Front and the Muslim People’s Republican Party. read more Time to Stop Restricting Abortion and Start Restricting Assault Weapons Posted by Beth on 17 December, 2012 Amanda Marcotte In the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, calls for restrictions on the manufacture and sale of a variety of guns, especially assault rifles such as the Bushmaster .223 used by the shooter in his rampage against women and children, have grown stronger. read more Remember All the Children, Mr. President Posted by Beth on 17 December, 2012 Bill Quigley Remember the 20 children who died in Newtown, Connecticut. Parishioners pay their respects to the victims of an elementary school shooting while arriving for mass at St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 16. (Photo: Emmanuel Dunand / AFP - Getty Images) Remember the 35 children who died in Gaza this month from Israeli bombardments. read more The Price of Our Freedom Posted by andrea on 17 December, 2012 George Lakoff Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom? — Barack Obama, Newtown Address, December 16, 2012 read more Building a Nonviolent Culture After Newtown Posted by Beth on 17 December, 2012 Ken Butigan The December 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. that left 28 people dead — including 20 children — has sent shock waves through our society. It penetrated the elaborate defenses that we as individuals and as a culture have erected to live with the internal contradictions of the bargain we have made to both oppose and embrace violence. Occasionally reality exposes and trumps the cognitive dissonance of this uneasy but deeply embedded arrangement. read more How the US Intelligence Community Came Out of the Shadows Posted by andrea on 17 December, 2012 Tom Engelhardt Weren’t those the greatest of days if you were in the American spy game?  Governments went down in Guatemala and Iran thanks to you.  In distant Indonesia, Laos, and Vietnam, what a role you played!  And even that botch-up of an invasion in Cuba was nothing to sneeze at.  In those days, unfortunately, you -- particularly those of you in the CIA -- didn’t get the credit you deserved. read more Just a Few Miles from Newtown Posted by andrea on 17 December, 2012 Michael Winship We’re spending a holiday season weekend at the home of friends in a small Connecticut town just a few miles up the road from Newtown. Returning from the local store, our friend Emily tells us that the talk there this morning is of nothing but the killings; every customer seems to know at least one of the families devastated by the volleys of gunshots. The headline on the front page of The Danbury News-Times is the single word, “Shattered,” in enormous type. read more 登録変更 | 登録解除

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