2012 archive

Citizen pilgrim

On Human Identity

By Richard Falk, 20:23 06/27/2012   Early in my blog life I wrote about Jewish identity. It was partly an exercise in self-discovery, and partly a response to those who alleged that I was a self-hating…  [more]

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/06/28/citizen-pilgrim/

In law or in practice

Children in Military Custody – new report by leading UK lawyers

By Defence for Children International-Palestine Section (DCI-Palestine), 28 Jun 2012   On 26 June a new report on children held in Israeli military detention was published in London.…  [more]

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Sense of scale

If you collected all of Earth’s water into a sphere, how big would it be?

By Robert T. Gonzalez, May  8, 2012  8:00 AM   Imagine the Earth in your mind’s eye. Now round up all the water on the…  [more]

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/06/27/sense-scale/

Modern-day version of maktab thani

Free the refugees of Nahr al-Bared

By Marcy Newman, 26 Jun 2012 22:06   Last week at a candlelight vigil in Baddawi refugee camp for the camp’s dead and injured, signs posted on the school wall asked why, after…  [more]

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/06/26/modern-day-version-maktab-thani/

It’s racism, pure and simple

Tea Party Racism Stirs the Republican Martini.

By Reflections of a shallow pond, June 21, 2012 3:55PM   Really? Last weekend at a Republican party convention at the Missoula, Montana  Hilton, an outhouse labeled “Obama Presidential Library” was plunked …  [more]

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/06/25/its-racism-pure-simple/

Freedom, justice and peace in the world

A Cruel and Unusual Record

By Jimmy Carter, June 24, 2012   The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights. Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens,…  [more]

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/06/25/freedom-justice-peace-world/

Trojan horse for the New World Order

Alabama defeats communism with anti-sustainability law

By , Saturday, Jun 23, 2012 11:00 AM CDT   With chronic budget shortfalls, dangerously overcrowded prisons and the nation’s biggest municipal bankruptcy filing, we here in Alabama have a lot…  [more]

Permanent link to this article: https://levantium.com/2012/06/24/trojan-horse-new-world-order/