[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUEGHdQO7WA[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUEGHdQO7WA TEDxPSU – A Radical Experiment in Empathy By Sam Edwards, October 10, 2010 Sam Richards is a sociologist and award-winning teacher who has been inspiring undergraduate students at Penn State since 1990. Every semester, 725 students register for his Race and Ethnic Relations course, one of the most popular classes at Penn State …
Category: Foreign Policy
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Mar 15 2011
American foreign policy 101
AIPAC’s newest strategy By MJ Rosenberg, 15 Mar 2011 16:55 GMT … Prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu is being heavily criticised in Israel for his blatant exploitation of the murder of five members of one family (including three children) at the Itamar settlement near Nablus. Particularly egregious has been Netanyahu’s demand that president Mahmoud Abbas personally appear on …
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Mar 14 2011
Gone or transformed
The Arab spring is brighter than ever By Brian Whitaker, Monday 14 March 2011 12.09 GMT … “The Arab world’s much-heralded collective push toward democracy is now in jeopardy,” an article for McClatchy newspapers in the US informed its readers at the weekend. The fact that autocratic regimes in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen are fighting …
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Mar 13 2011
Price tag for blood
You can put a mask on the Palestinian wild beast, such as a speaker who speaks fluent English. You can put it in a three-piece suit and a silk tie. But once in a while – when the moon is born, when a raven defecates on the head of a howling jackal, or when the …
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Mar 12 2011
Fount of all terror
Palestinians understand Gaddafi better than we do By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 12 March 2011 … To Beirut. Storms. Heavy rain. Seas sweeping over the little port by my home. A meeting with a close friend of a son of Gaddafi. “He wants a battle, habibi, he wants a battle. He wants to be the big …
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Mar 12 2011
Audacity is the last thing
Against American interventionism By Clancy Sigal, Friday 11 March 2011 22.00 GMT I believe in adequate defence at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6% over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas …
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Mar 11 2011
The hallows of Hebron
The IDF’s masquerade in Hebron By Alon Idan, 01:57 10.03.11 … A walk through Hebron sends you into deep despair. Near the Cave of the Patriarchs, at the end of the plaza surrounded by a low fence, you see destruction and ruin, and especially the inconceivable segregation of the populations. Four children, maybe eight …
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