Monthly Archives: February 2009

Amnesty's Obliquity

Posted on 24 February, 2009 by

Amnesty International (AI) recently issued a report urging the United Nations (UN) and Obama administration to enact an immediate arms embargo against israel. In response, this J-Post editorial (thanks Dave) hysterically denounces AI for its calling for “Israel’s destruction” and … Continue reading →

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Avraham Burg: A 'Controlled Opposition?'

Posted on 24 February, 2009 by

In the course of reading the introduction to Avraham Burg’s The Holocaust Is Over: We Must Rise From Its Ashes, I had the same reservations Raymond Deane describes in the following review. Burg writes well, particularly on Jewry and israeli … Continue reading →

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Greening the de-industrialised city?

Posted on 22 February, 2009 by

Once the exemplar of Fordist mass-industrialisation and the triumph of industry, Detroit is now the poorest large city in North America. The economic crisis and de-industrialisation of the Motor City offers opportunities in disguise for greening a brown-belt town, Grace … Continue reading →

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Obama on Netanyahu: Arrogant and Unconvincing

Posted on 21 February, 2009 by

Barack Obama did not get on well with Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu when he met him in Jerusalem before the American elections, claims Robert Fisk. According to Fisk in his recent piece below, Obama was unconvinced by the likely next israeli … Continue reading →

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