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The New (York City) Anti-Semitism: Reinstate Debbie Almontaser to the Kahlil Gibran International Academy

Any intelligent observer can easily discern that the “new” anti-semitism today has little connection with discrimination against Jews. Anti-semitism nowadays is mostly about deplorable discrimination and racist attacks against Arabs. … Continue reading

1 September, 2007 · 8 Comments

Ban the Bomblets

From the Australian Dateline program, an excellent segment on cluster bombs that aired in April this year, with a focus on Lebanon. Unexploded Israeli-launched bomblets continue to litter the Lebanese … Continue reading

30 August, 2007 · 10 Comments

The Jews of Iran

Another worthwhile view from SBS’s Dateline (Australia) that aired this year.

30 August, 2007 · 2 Comments

What Real News Might Look Like

Image below created by Justice Design who designed the art and lay-out for the book Globalize Liberation (ed.) David Solnit (image on p. 175 here).  There are three full sample … Continue reading

29 August, 2007 · 3 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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