Minority Births the Majority? On how the whole idea of White People is Made Up

The news is going around breathlessly that 50.4% of births in the US in the past 12 months were to families categorized as ethnic minorities, presaging the time when ‘whites will be a minority’ in the US. The unselfconscious deployment of these categories just take …

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U.S. Muslim and Former Marine Added to No Fly List, Recruited to Become FBI Informant

Today’s To the Point show reported on an ACLU class-action lawsuit by 14 U.S. Muslims against the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security for the arbitrary and capricious manner in which it maintains the No Fly lists of those who may not fly within the U.S.&n …

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Bean Counting States

As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict faces hunger strikes and the threat of renewed conflict, the question being tirelessly reiterated is whether a two-state solution is beyond us. The answer is "Yes"€ and "€œNo."€ But counting the number of states required for bringing ab …

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A Three State Solution

by Danny Danon May 3, 2012 5:00 PM EDT

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Israel demolishes dairy farm in Occupied Palestine

On May Day, a day in Israel in which all government offices are closed, in the village of Khaled al Wardeh outside Hebron, the Israeli military demolished a dairy farm.

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Israeli police to activist reciting names of destroyed Palestinian villages: If you keep reading you will be arrested

The first text message I received around 22:30 read "The cops have surrounded the building, It's quite likely that everybody will be arrested once we try to get out of the door. Alert everybody." The message was sent by a friend of mine, who along with 14 other activists came t …

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'60 minutes' profiles Palestinian Christians

The above story ran on 60 Minutes tonight. It's a powerful piece showing life under occupation, and a damning portrait of Michael Oren as the chief spokesperson for Israel's unjust control over the West Bank. On the onerous permit regime that limits freedom of movement and defi …

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Palestinians deliver ultimatum to Israel in bid to revive peace talks - Middle East - World - The Independent

Palestinians last night delivered a written ultimatum to Israel from President Mahmoud Abbas, setting out the parameters for stalled peace talks to resume, and warning that both sides were sliding towards a bi-national state.

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Marines Return to Being "Crusaders"

Sources at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort have also confirmed that the "Crusader" insignia is being repainted on the planes flown by Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 122. These U.S. Marine Corps planes will once again have a great big red crusader cross on them, as shown in th …

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Israel media chides 'Flytilla' reaction - UPI.com

TEL AVIV, Israel, April 15 (UPI) -- Israeli media had some harsh words for the government Sunday as scores of police turned back a small number of pro-Palestinian activists headed for Bethlehem. More than 600 police officers were on duty at Ben-Gurion International Airport Sun …

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Five Myths About Crime in Black America—and the Statistical Truths - COLORLINES

In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death, we’ve seen a lot of discussion of the larger societal issues that play into how and when people are perceived as criminals. There were hoodies, there were marches, and there were frank talks from parent to child about how to mi …

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The real criminals in the Tarek Mehanna case - Salon.com

In one of the most egregious violations of the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech seen in quite some time, Tarek Mehanna, an American Muslim, was convicted this week in a federal court in Boston and then sentenced yesterday to 17 years in prison. He was found guil …

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Bethlehem mayor to Israel: Allow our friends to visit

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The mayor of Bethlehem on Tuesday urged Israel not to humiliate hundreds of tourists invited to a week-long tour of Palestine.Some 25 Palestinian organizations have invited internationals to visit Palestine from April 15 - 20 and Mayor Victor Batarseh urged …

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Omissions, half-truths, lies: Ambassador Oren in Foreign Policy

In a recently published piece, Israel’s Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren rejected claims regarding anti-democratic trends in his country, and compared the legal status of Palestinians in the West Bank to that of U.S. citizens in Washington DC and the American territori …

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Israel Casually Bars UN Fact Finding Team

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Federal judge strikes down parts of Wisconsin collective bargaining law

A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] on Friday that certain portions of Wiscosin's Budget Repair Bill [2011 Wisconsin Act 10 text, PDF], which limits the rights of unions to collectively bargain, are unc …

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Sever everything but the exhortation

At oral argument, we heard about two ways of understanding the individual mandate. One is that it gives people a choice. You must do one of two things, the law says: (a) obtain health insurance, or (b) pay a penalty on your taxes. On this view, the mandate is no different from an …

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MK Zoabi: Struggle for democracy is a struggle against Zionism

Haneen Zoabi, an MK from the Balad party, speaks to Elsa Rassbach about Land Day and her relationship as a Palestinian to Zionism and citizenship.   

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Southern Poverty Law Center 'Follows the Networks' of Anti-Muslim Hate

SPLC has expanded its listings of Arab-hating blogs and groups to include some of the more notorious pro-Israel blogs out there which combine hasbara with Muslim-bashing.  Among them are Sultan of Knish, Radio Jihad, and Bare Naked Islam.

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Gated Intellectuals and Ignorance in Political Life: Toward a Borderless Pedagogy in the Occupy Movement | Truthout

A group of right-wing extremists in the United States would have the American public believe it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of a market society. Comprising this group are the Republican Party extremists, religious fundamentalists such …

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Occupying Democracy: A Moral Revolution for Social Justice | Truthout

The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy. -Thomas Paine, "First Principles of Government," 1795. Thomas Paine's words, written 217 years ago, capture the core purpose of the Occupy movement. The movement, at its heart, instructs us to honor one another  …

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Welfare Reform—From Bad to Worse | The Nation

A stunning report released by the University of Michigan’s National Poverty Center reveals that the number of US households living on less than $2 per person per day—a standard used by the World Bank to measure poverty in developing nations—rose by 130 percent b …

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We Can Live with a Nuclear Iran - Washington Monthly

 There are indeed good reasons to oppose Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons, and likewise many steps the United States and the international community can and should take to try to avoid that eventuality.

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A united, democratic nation with equal rights for all - Boston.com

AS A FORMER legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team, I spent more than six years working toward a “two-state’’ solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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