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Racism in America: it’s serious…
White America’s racial blinders By Derrick Z. Jackson | GLOBE COLUMNIST  AUGUST 20, 2014 EPA A young protester covers his face with the US flag in Ferguson Monday. THE DISPIRITING saga from Ferguson, Mo., provides another tragic window on decades of indifference to economic disparities  and on those fatal split seconds when police see black men as […]
History buffs: China’s parallel with Germany before WWI
August 20, 2014 Paul Monk Illustration: John Spooner There has been an outpouring of reflections this year, both here and abroad, on the centenary of the start of the First World War. Much of it recycles old clichés about the war or dwells on the merits and consequences of Australian involvement on the side of […]
QUESTIONS & RESPONSES: RAW MATERIAL FOR A NEW BOOK/BLOG
NOTE: THIS BLOG IS A POT-POURRI OF ARTICLES, NOTES, IDEAS – MANY STILL TO BE FULLY FORMED. I’M DRIBBLING SOME ARTICLES INTO THIS FOLDER ON jmm.org.au WEBSITE FROM TIME TO TIME… DEADLINE FOR FINISHED MSS.: was to have been OCTOBER 2014, but Mosaic Press (with whom I had a contract) has gone into liquidation, so […]
Justice system failing indigenous women
Date August 18, 2014 Perhaps the most lamentable blot on Australia, which boasts an overall standard of living coveted by so many less-fortunate nations, is the gap between the situation of indigenous people and that of the rest of the population. Across a range of fundamental measures, indigenous Australians experience shocking outcomes, to the point […]
Robin Williams: a brilliant obituary/summary of his life
Robin Williams obituary Actor and comedian who made his television breakthrough with Mork & Mindy and went on to star in films such as Good Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society and Mrs Doubtfire• Robin Williams found dead at 63 • Peter Bradshaw: ‘A big heart and a staggering talent’ • Robin Williams: what did he mean to you? […]
Islamic State Atrocities in Iraq: sharia’s rules of war
‘Three Choices’ and the bitter harvest of denial: How dissimulation about Islam is fueling genocide in the Middle East Posted: 12 Aug 2014 02:54 PM PDT By Mark Durie Published first by Lapido Media. Republished by permission. In northern Iraq religious genocide is reaching end-game stage. Islamic State (IS) soldiers, reinforced with military equipment originally […]
Why Israel lost the war in Gaza
Date August 11, 2014 David Rothkopf Heavy smoke billows following an Israeli military strike in Gaza City. There is no doubt that Israeli leaders feel justified in their actions in Gaza. Polls show that more than nine out of 10 Israelis supported the  war. Hamas is a very bad actor. Israel has every right to […]
Israel, Gaza, and the Inevitable Failure of the Arab Spring
The Tragedy of Great Power: The Massacre of Gaza and the Inevitable Failure of the Arab Spring Khaled Abou El FadlABC RELIGION AND ETHICS8 AUG 2014 ISRAEL WANTS TO DESTROY HAMAS IN ORDER TO CONTINUE CONTROLLING THE FATE OF PALESTINIANS, NEUTRALIZING THEIR NATIONALISM AND BREAKING THEIR WILL TO RESIST.CREDIT: REUTERS / AHMED ZAKOT SEE ALSO […]
Is Australia Being Islamicised?
Monday, 4 August 2014 | Scott HigginsOne of the objections I commonly hear to both taking in asylum seekers and our wider immigration program is a fear that we are being Islamicised. This reflects a worry that most Muslims, if they had the chance, would vote to see sharia law imposed on the Australian population; […]
Sex Abuse – worse among Evangelicals/Fundamentalists than Catholics?
GRACE against sex abuse by MARTIN E. MARTY Monday | July 28 2014 GRACE acronates “Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment.†Its story is well told in Kathryn Joyce’s “By Grace Alone,†an article in American Prospect (May/June; see “Sources,†below). Please read it, since it offers background and details vital to the questions of “abuse.†[…]
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