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- The role of the intellectual
- White House Press: Ground Rules (Clinton 2000 interview with Amy Goodman)
- Egypt…the revolution keeps revolving (Today’s “Women’s March”)
- Bradley Manning in court, Day One
- Occupy Wall Street as Three-card Monte for the media (or: Who’s a ringer?)
- The time we killed civilians in order to save civilians… (NATO in Libya)
- Rick Perry’s YouTube advertisement: Let the voting begin.
- The last gasps of the Bill of Rights, plus Ozone Widget and the Lord’s Army (Nation Defense Authorization Act)
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- “Corporations are people, my friend”
- The place where the drones go…
- Entrenched social inequality, as visible at Starbucks
- How the government will spend its discretionary monies in 2012
- Now that Mubarak is gone, Egypt is free and democratic!
- The forces of counter-revolution amass (reacting to Occupy)
- Interview of Francis Fox Piven (strategy and tactics of struggle, and Occupy Wall Street)
- The atomic bomb and Hiroshima: We had to drop it, to save American lives, right?
- How did you fare Buy Nothing Day?
- Occupy Everywhere: Roundtable with Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, P. Bruener, Rinku Sen, W. Greider
- Foucault in a cowboy hat
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Tag Archives: Palestine
How the wall “works”, or annexation by security
Posted in Another day in Occupied Palestine
Tagged annexation, Israel, Palestine, security, wall
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Some Gazan youths discuss the statehood bid
They are very pessimistic about the statehood option. Some of the major points they make are: 1. Statehood will change nothing on the ground, yet will give the uninformed the impression that things are now better. 2. Statehood will have … Continue reading
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Tagged Gaza, gazan children, Palestine, statehood
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Obama, the Jewish extremist
Obama gave a speech at the UN on the subject of Palestinian statehood. A number of commentators have pointed out that Obama’s position regarding the matter is now more extreme than the majority of Israeli citizens. Here are some of … Continue reading
Imagine being a Gazan child today…
Imagine being a Gazan child today. You hear rumors among the adults that there is news of a terrorist attack in Israel. Your parents have political opinions but nothing to do with terrorists. But across the city a panic is … Continue reading
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Tagged attacks, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, terrorist
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Robert Fisk is lucid on Middle East topics (2009 interview)
Some crib notes: 1. Middle East was carved up in the most artificial way after WWII; they never got a chance to have any political unity nor form their own nation-states. Hence, they revert to sectarian loyalties; either by tribe, … Continue reading
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Tagged Fisk, Iran, Israel, Middle East, nuclear bomb, Obama, Palestine, Tehran
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Israel-Palestine conflict: think the coverage is even?
Think again. From the from the Guardian: In 2004 the Glasgow University Media Group published a major study on TV coverage of the Second Intifada and its impact on public understanding. We analysed about 200 programmes and questioned more than … Continue reading
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Tagged coverage, media, Palestine, reporting
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Obama’s speech on Palestine-Israel: responses and clarifications
Obama gave a speech yesterday about the Middle East conflict in which he announced that the US was officially supporting the Palestinian 1967 borders. Is this a major push toward new solutions, or just more of the same? Some are … Continue reading
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Tagged 1967 borders, conflict, Finkelstein, Israel, Middle East, Netanyahu, Obama, Palestine, speech
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“Israel is a lunatic state”
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Tagged Israel, Normal Finkelstein, Palestine, US Israel relations
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Two rabbis at Honukkah: light a candle for Gaza, or US media and Israel
When it comes to reporting on the human realities of the Palestinians, mainstream news in the US is blatantly biased in favor of the Israeli state. Even simple facts about the Palestinians don’t see the light of day in the … Continue reading
