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Israel jails Palestinian parliament speaker without trial
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:52 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
An Israeli military court has ordered the speaker of the Palestinian legislative body to be jailed for six months without trial after he was arrested at a checkpoint last week.
State of Our Disunion: A Globalizing Private Sector, A Government Overwhelmed by Corporate Money
Seeded on Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:55 AM EST (Robert Reich)
Who should have the primary strategic responsibility for making American workers globally competitive – the private sector or government? This will be a defining issue in the 2012 campaign.
U.S. shuts Megaupload.com, hackers retaliate
Seeded on Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:07 AM EST (Reuters)
The U.S.
Push to Reform Prison System Brings Unlikely Allies Together
Seeded on Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:27 AM EST (Truthout - All Articles)
Over the past 15 years, the US prison population has more than doubled. There are 2.3 million Americans behind bars - that's one in 100. About half of the people in prison are serving time for nonviolent offenses, including drug possession.
Norman Finkelstein: There was NO WAR in GAZA, it was a MASSACRE
Seeded on Sat Jan 7, 2012 6:22 PM EST (Norman Finkelstein)
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Co-existence vs. Co-resistance: A case against normalization
Seeded on Tue Jan 3, 2012 4:16 PM EST (+972 Magazine)
many Palestinians have started to re-examine the logic of their relationships with Israelis and criticize those Palestinians who have benefited immensely from it over the years while others around them have suffered. When we consider the resurgence of anti-normalization, …
Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union? Mikhail Gorbachev
Seeded on Tue Dec 27, 2011 4:39 PM EST (The Nation)
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union twenty years ago, Western commentators have often celebrated it as though what disappeared from the world arena in December 1991 was the old Soviet Union, the USSR of Stalin and Brezhnev, rather than the reforming Soviet Union of perestroik …
How I became a 'terrorist' - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Seeded on Mon Dec 26, 2011 3:39 PM EST (Haaretz)
The first time I was attacked by an Israeli settler, I was 14 years old. I was walking to school when an armed man wearing a skullcap, standing near some Israeli soldiers, pulled my pack off my back and threw it in the mud.
On democracy: There's nothing "left" about the Zionist Left
Seeded on Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:23 AM EST (+972 Magazine)
Any democratic process must start by admitting two unbearable atrocities: first, the exclusiveness that Jews have over political power in a shared space, and second, the Judaizing system that uses state resources to maintain a brutal colonizing process.
Obama's rabbi sidekick is opposed to 'too many Arabs' in Israel
Seeded on Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:51 PM EST (Mondoweiss)
On December 16, President Barak Obama delivered a major address to the Union for Reform Judsism, the national umbrella for America's largest liberal Jewish denomination...
Beinart says Israel must give citizenship to Palestinians under occupation | Mondoweiss
Seeded on Tue Dec 6, 2011 7:13 AM EST (Mondoweiss)
There's a "crisis" in American Jewry.
Palestine in Israeli School Books: Nurit Peled-Elhanan - YouTube
Seeded on Sun Dec 4, 2011 9:14 AM EST (YouTube)
Alternate Focus interviews Nurit Peled-Elhanan, author of the forthcoming book Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education.
A Reader's Guide to Andrew Sullivan's Defense of Race Science
Seeded on Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:16 AM EST (Gawker)
Oh, dear. America's favorite stoner blogger, Andrew Sullivan, is worried that "p.c. egalitarianism" has "strangled" "the study of intelligence." But what does that mean? Let us help you translate!
Author Takes Fresh Look at Shaping of U.S. Cultural, Political Landscape | PBS NewsHour | Nov. 24, 2011 | PBS
Seeded on Fri Nov 25, 2011 2:31 PM EST (PBS)
In his new book, author and historian Colin Woodard explores how America was shaped by settlement patterns dating back to the time of the first Thanksgiving.
How to fight the Israel-Apartheid analogy in four easy steps – a guide for useful Hasbara idiots | Israeli Occupation Archive
Seeded on Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:31 AM EST (Israeli Occupation Archive)
Step one: But they have the vote Start with fragmentation.
Egypt detains leader of deadly August attack on Israel border
Seeded on Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:36 PM EST (haaretz)
Egyptian security forces arrested the suspected leader of a Sinai terror ring allegedly responsible for a deadly border attack in August, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency said on Sunday, saying the man was arrested in a tourist spot at the desert peninsula. On Sunday, a Ma'an …
Why the Washington Post won't fire Jennifer Rubin
Seeded on Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:00 PM EST (Salon.com)
Several weeks ago, I wrote about a truly twisted, deranged rant by neocon royal family member Rachel Abrams.
West Bank woman's struggle for change - The Washington Post
Seeded on Fri Nov 4, 2011 7:46 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
RAMALLAH, West Bank - When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas returned home to a hero’s welcome after applying for United Nations membership for a Palestinian state, Hurriyah Ziada was not moved to join the celebration. A 22-year-old university student who is …
What Palestine's UNESCO membership could mean on the ground
Seeded on Tue Nov 1, 2011 4:12 PM EDT (Mondoweiss)
After years of deterrents from the United States via congressional legislation and diplomatic pressure, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has voted in favor of admitting Palestine as a full member.
Never Miss an Opportunity
Seeded on Sat Oct 29, 2011 1:55 PM EDT (The Forward)
Ghoulish gazers get to ogle a horrifying Halloween history from the Forward’s Artist in Residence, Eli Valley. Gasp at the graphics and view the visceral video if you dare, dear reader.Read more: #ixzz1cC7DwfYy
IDF now mum on Eilat attacks that served as premise for Gaza bombing
Seeded on Sun Oct 23, 2011 2:55 PM EDT (+927 Magazine)
A reporter exposes the fact that an IDF investigation acknowledges that the Eilat attackers came from Sinai, not the Gaza Strip; the IDF has nothing to say ... Yediot’s Alex Fishman published the central findings of the IDF event investigation.
First look at US pay data, it's awful
Seeded on Thu Oct 20, 2011 4:35 PM EDT (Reuters)
Anyone who wants to understand the enduring nature of Occupy Wall Street and similar protests across the country need only look at the first official data on 2010 paychecks, which the U.S.
UK rewrites war crimes law at Israel's request | The Electronic Intifada
Seeded on Sun Oct 9, 2011 12:01 PM EDT (Electronic Intifada)
Legal mechanisms developed after the end of the Second World War to more easily prosecute war criminals are now being taken off the books to preserve Israeli impunity from accountability. In the aftermath of the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes an outraged international communi …
Joe Lauria: Why Palestine Is Already a State (Part One)
Seeded on Wed Oct 5, 2011 8:07 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)
A combination of mistakes -- whether through ignorance or design -- and significant omissions of fact have left the American public misinformed about why the Palestinians have gone to the United Nations and what they are trying to achieve. The biggest error repeated across the …
Irvine Muslim Students Convicted of Shouting at Israeli Ambassador | The Nation
Seeded on Tue Sep 27, 2011 1:37 PM EDT (The Nation)
In a trial that never should have taken place, ten Muslim students at UC Irvine were convicted Friday of disrupting a speech by the Israeli ambassador on campus last spring.
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