Category: Culture

Southern weed rewind

The following comments, now updated a bit, were first submitted by email at the end of April.  They were promptly lost (raptured into the ether?) and I was asked to resubmit or write about something else.  But before I could decide, President Obama gleefully served up the pandering Donald’s pampered posterior on a platter at the …

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Murillo’s Memorial Day

Manuel Zelaya’s courageous homecoming By Amy Goodman, Wednesday 1 June 2011 14.34 BST … While most in the United States were recognising Memorial Day with a three-day weekend, the people of Honduras were engaged in a historic event: the return of President Manuel Zelaya, 23 months after being forced into exile at gunpoint in the …

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Soothsayer

So Glenn Beck Thinks He’s A Prophet Now? By Andy Newbold, June 02, 2011 3:17 pm ET … Today, Mediaite reported that the last episode of Glenn Beck’s daily Fox News show will air on June 30. That news may just have driven Beck over the edge. On his radio show today, Beck told his …

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Coldplay

“Freedom for Palestine” Makes Glenn Beck Cry By soysauce for Adalah — A Just Middle East, Fri Jun 03, 2011 at 08:16 AM PDT … In a recent diary, simone daud introduced us to a new UK song, “Freedom for Palestine”. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V28HnPTYz-I[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V28HnPTYz-I The song was written by Dave Randall of the UK dance band, Faithless, …

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Tafasta merubah, lo tafasta!

Dear Friends: This is an exceptionally constructive and illuminating appraisal of the current state of U.S. policy toward the Israel-Palestine issue, written by Henry Siegman, president of the US/Middle East Project (and presently a nonresident visiting research professor at the Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Program, SOAS, University of London).   It is important to note that Mr. Siegman served on the executive …

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If we become just and moral

Turning the ‘right of return’ into reality By Ben White, 31 May 2011 12:02 … After years of marginalisation in the peace process, the Palestinian refugees are back on centre stage. On May 15, Nakba day, the refugees forced their way on to the news agenda; in the past two weeks, Israeli and Palestinian leaders …

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Nobody can make you feel

A poisonous environment in which to be a woman By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Monday, 30 May 2011 … Dame Barbara Mills DBE QC, 70, died on Saturday, after suffering a stroke. I asked a number of young professionals if they knew who she was. No, not a clue. Not even the lawyers among them. She was …

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