Terry Sullivan is nothing like me. She is graceful,musical, delicate, intellectually serious, tough-minded, moral but never moralizing, good humored, but never over-the-top. She is 100% Woman,but no feminist. She is very easy on the eyes and reminds me of Audrey Hepburn and Jennifer Jones. We take long drives out of the city and into the rural beauty that is Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan....
“The world's goin' crazy and Nobody gives a damn anymore. And they're breakin' off relationships and Leavin' on sailin' ships for far and distant shores. You're my brother, Though I didn't know you yesterday. I'm your brother. Together we can find a way” Ray Davies Noam Chomsky condemns 'immoral' Afghan war The Left thinks that Glenn Beck is crazy. The Right thinks that Noam Chomsky is...
TOP STORY - The Secret Global Empire(s): Russ Baker & John Perkins (GRITtv) Brazil - Brazil warns of “deterioration” of US relations with South America (MercoPress) Brazil - France, Brazil join forces on climate change (Reuters) Brazil - Lula rebuffs criticism over Ahmadinejad visit (Reuters) El Salvador - The martyrs of El Salvador (The Guardian) Honduras - "Obama, Bush, and Latin...
Finkelstein in Helsinki "Norman Finkelstein is an American researcher who has written extensively on the Israel–Palestine conflict and on the politics of the Nazi holocaust. His books The Holocaust Industry and Beyond Chutzpah : On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History received both high praise and intense criticism. Finkelstein was in Helsinki attending the premier of American...
By Jonathan Cook Znet "Jonathan Cook has been covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from Nazareth, Israel , as a freelance reporter for the past eight years . Before that he was a staff journalist at the Guardian and Observer newspapers. His latest books on the conflict are ‘ Israel and the Clash of Civilisations ' (Pluto, 2008) and ‘ Disappearing Palestine' (Zed, 2008). His website...
What Passes for Major Media Journalism by Stephen Lendman sjlendman.blogspot.com (November 09 2009) Today's major media journalism is biased, irresponsible, sensationalist reporting that distorts, exaggerates or misstates the truth. It's misinformation or agitprop disinformation masquerading as fact to boost circulation, readership, viewers, or listeners, and on vital issues lie about or suppress uncomfortable...
Joel Whitney interviews Noam Chomsky in Guernica Magazine: Guernica:...Utne characterized your work as having “an unflagging sense of outrage.” I’m wondering, when you diligently dissect exactly what your country has done in places like Chile, Vietnam, Iraq, and elsewhere, when...
“Denial” is an overused word, but in its original context it is essential for understanding how the heirs of mass murderers keep going. Why do modern neo-Nazis deny the Holocaust, when you might think they would be proud of it? They have to because every time fascist ideas look at if they might be gaining [...]
Lydia Millet's new story collection, Love in Infant Monkeys , is one of my favorite books of the year. Each story is about the relationship between a celebrity and an animal, either directly or obliquely—an internal monologue from Madonna after she's shot and killed a pheasant; a melancholy profile of the professional dog-walker who cares for David Hasslehoff's dog; an account of Nicholas Tesla's...
Noam Chomsky in BBC interview:The war in Afghanistan is "immoral." He spoke to Stephen Sackur and answered viewer questions, among them several on the Middle East. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
An Interview With Noam Chomsky By Noam Chomsky and Diane Krauthamer Znet ".... DK: On that note, I'm also looking to think ahead with what's in the future for the labor movement and the IWW. More generally, if you had one piece of advice to offer future generations of Wobblies —especially in light of the tough financial times that we are facing and will probably continue to face for a long...
Blogging Tory jabba the roy pushes himself away from the buffet table long enough to hork up another tear jerker (courtesy of Five Feet of Bowel Obstruction): Very sad and frightening If you are a Holocaust denier or noam chomsky you can speak at a US campus. Not if you support Israel or tell the truth about jihad. This time, Nonie, who is the founder of Arabs for Israel, was invited to speak at both...
In our time, a speaker must face a gauntlet of hostility and a menacing crowd if she wishes to speak in favor of Israel or to tell the truth about Islam. That’s if she’s lucky. Most such speakers never get invited or when they do, their invitations are canceled. Nonie Darwish, the author of Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law and Now They Call Me...
If you are a Holocaust denier or noam chomsky you can speak at a US campus. Not if you support Israel or tell the truth about jihad.( h/t ) This time, Nonie, who is the founder of Arabs for Israel, was invited to speak at both Columbia and Princeton. The official invitation at Columbia came from the very distinguished CAMERA, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), and from a new student organization...