May 31 2010
This headline in today’s supposedly-progressive Haaretz – “Israel Navy commandos: Gaza flotilla activists tried to lynch us” – makes me wonder if something was lost in translation. The irony of a lynching in Israel’s own Deep South is strange enough fruit (see postscript) for a crack PR operation, but for an Israeli newspaper to acknowledge …
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May 21 2010
Thanks to “my” crack team of researchers, here’s the letter by Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, and others, first published in the Books section (page 12) of The New York Times, Saturday December 4, 1948: http://www.archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948 or http://bit.ly/d5pUR7 or http://tinyurl.com/2av8cho (thanks Børre) …interesting that “terror” or “terrorist” shows up 7 times. And here is …
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May 16 2010
And finally the bad news. Marjorie Wright sent this very depressing piece by Philip Giraldi (also former CIA) last night. For those of you who don’t get moist with Armageddon-anticipation, reading Giraldi’s prediction (that Israel will try to force us into a war with Iran by August) will make your heart sink lower than a …
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Dec 31 2009
This morning, a friend wrote this: Please don’t misunderstand me, largely because of [others], I now have much greater compassion for the plight of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. You-all have helped me see the other side of the coin, the one not easily available here because of the apparent pro-Israeli bias in our news …
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Aug 30 2009
I’m almost finished with Charles Pierce’s “Idiot America — How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free” (Doubleday, June 2009). Just read the chapter on the 9-11 fiasco and the “sexing up” of the Iraq war and I’m so angry right right now that I feel compelled to share the following links …
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Apr 27 2009
For the sake of argument, let’s suppose torture works… For the sake of argument, let’s also suppose that 9/11 was inevitable. Let’s suppose that it wasn’t a circus of errors and missed opportunities and hot pursuits that were allowed to grow cold. Let’s suppose that the CIA and the FBI were a model of harmonious …
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Feb 25 2009
My suspicion, somewhat validated by the more critical articles I’ve read, is that Colson’s alarmist worldview stems in large part from what he sees as an Islamic encroachment on his prison ministry. He has become a darling of the right-wing “news” entertainment circuit — Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, etc. — by bashing gays, espousing unregulated capitalism, and hawking Bush’s …
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