pryce-jones.nationalreview.com - 25 days ago
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Malcolm Muggeridge in his day was one of the rare foreign correspondents who reported what the Soviet Union was really like under Stalin. And what satirical scorn he reserved for those who thought they were wandering in Utopia. Listen to this extract from a book of his about the rich idiots ...
americanthinker.com - 18 days ago
nytimes.com - 27 days ago
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WASHINGTON Iran told the United Nations nuclear
watchdog on Thursday that it would not accept a...
plan its negotiators agreed to last week to send its stockpile of uranium out of the country, according to diplomats in Europe and American officials ...
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Iran Said to Reject Key Element of Nuclear Deal
nytimes.com - 26 days ago
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This article is by David E. Sanger ,
Steven Erlanger and Robert F. Worth . WASHINGTON ...
Iran told the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Thursday that it would not accept a plan its negotiators agreed to last week to send its stockpile of uranium out ...
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Tehran Rejects Nuclear Accord, Officials Report
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... . Mr. Smith waits all year to pretend this is just about Halloween. Sure. Whatever you need to believe, Harry. But could you put down the allegedly rubber chicken long enough to file a story about the 30 congressmen on the take? Speaking of real journalistic integrity, however, here’s a two-fer: David Pryce-Jones quoting Malcolm Muggeridge : “There were earnest advocates of the humane killing of cattle who looked up at the massive headquarters of the OGPU [the secret police at the time] with tears of gratitude in their eyes, earnest advocates of proportional representation who ...
Pulling the Republican lever in Manhattan, &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger
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... Last Friday, David Pryce-Jones wrote an amazingly stirring post on his blog. Find it here. It has the heading “We Need a Muggeridge for Iran.” DP-J talks of how Malcolm Muggeridge skewered credulous Westerners who visited the Soviet Union. And then he talks about how the spiritual descendants of those Westerners are visiting Iran now: ...
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