Jul 24 2008

A day in the life of George Orwell’s America

 I watched Obama’s Berlin speech today on MSNBC.  As soon as it was over, the bobble-head commentators (those erudite members of our once-vaunted Fourth Estate castrati) started trying to resuscitate the fading McCain in their desperation to keep the election…  [more]

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Jul 10 2008

Rabbi Fox

Ms. Gassaway, I had hoped the rabbi’s recent rant would be disregarded by your readers as the specious partisan pandering it obviously is to anyone who understands even the smallest bits of Middle Eastern history and contemporary realities “over there.” …  [more]

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Jun 15 2008

The wolf we feed

 “So it is that democracy without honest information creates the illusion of popular consent, while enhancing the power of the state and the privileged interests protected by it.  Democracy without accountability creates the illusion of popular control, while offering ordinary…  [more]

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Jun 11 2008

Lebanon falls

 Sent: Wed 6/11/2008 8:15 PM To: [deleted] Subject: RE: Lebanon Falls. Dear [deleted] and friends, Normally I wouldn’t respond to something like this, but when you wrote that this was “the clearest picture of the situation in Lebanon and the…  [more]

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Jun 08 2008

Dreaming of what once was

 Dear Janna,  Perhaps the answer is to out-market the vision of what is possible vs. the vision of those things feared or coveted.  Somehow, we’ve got to convince people that the alternative to fear and avoidance of insecurity is better…  [more]

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May 18 2008

I beg to disagree

 While Obama has shamelessly pandered (along with the rest of them) for the American Jewish vote, he has at the same time demonstrated a grasp of Middle Eastern realities that I have not heard from any other candidate.  And while…  [more]

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May 13 2008

A century of willful ignorance

 A friend of mine just sent me an interesting article by Ramzy Baroud, about Johns Hagee and McCain:  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=13720  Here’s the first paragraph from Baroud’s article:  A memorable quote in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) still carries a wealth…  [more]

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