The first Friday of every month is Gallery Walk in Hot Springs, when the downtown art galleries stay open late. We were strolling along Central Avenue when this poster in the window of
Maxine’s caught my eye. I went back…
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Lawrence Davidson writes about why we should “sit up and take notice” when the Israelis flatten the Bedouin village of al-Arakib:
http://www.counterpunch.org/davidson08062010.html or
http://bit.ly/9dqi9N or
http://tinyurl.com/2wmpcgt
This sort of thing happens all the time in “the only democracy in the…
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Jamie Doward writes in
guardian.co.uk on the passing of Tony Judt at age 62:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/07/historian-tony-judt-dies or
http://bit.ly/8XIFF3 or
http://tinyurl.com/386pzjr
Tony Judt, the British writer, historian and professor who was recently described as having the “liveliest mind in New York”,…
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Robert Fisk writes about the latest skirmish along the Lebanon-Israel border, the latest prelude to the next bloody chapter of Israel’s never-ending bullying in the Middle East schoolyard (with America’s blessings, of course)…
Can a tree start a Middle East…
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In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Matthew 2:18 (KJV)
Jonathon Cook writes from Nazareth. His August 2, 2010 article,…
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Politics & US foreign policy: Pakistan (or Mollywood On My Mind)
It seems to me that the keystone to present (=Obama) policy in ‘Af-Pak’ is the very nature of politics in Pakistan. And the question there is … which linguistic…
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Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah ‘worse than Hiroshima’
By Patrick Cockburn, Saturday, 24 July 2010:
Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed…
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