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Frontline’s “Top Secret America” Extended Trailer
And here’s the Washington Post page devoted to the subject: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/
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Tagged 2010, 21st century, 9-11, America, civil liberties, frontline, government, national security state, privacy, secrecy, top secret, top secret america
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Is Islam a violent religion in the same way that it is a patriarchal religion?
In a recent New York Times essay, Robert Wright attempts to complexify the “jihadi intent” narrative for the Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad, to which Jerry Coyne dismissively retorts: It’s social difficulties, mental illness, financial problems, and American depredations in the Middle … Continue reading
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Tagged 9-11, atheism, atheist, Islam, jerry coyne, Mohammad, Muslims, nonviolence, religion, robert wright, violence, women
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Structural Demolition and the Religious Psyche
Hmm. I understand the metaphor, but there’s also something vaguely disturbing about mixing a spiritual message with the primitive glee of tearing down a real building:
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Tagged 9-11, death, demolition, destruction, Dostoevsky, God, Jesus, life, underground men
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Prometheus Unbound 