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the stone-eaters
theres a parable in here somewhere.
intercontinental divide
"In most of the world, it is the Palestinian narrative of a dispossessed people that dominates. In the United States, however, the narrative that dominates is Israel’s: a democracy under constant siege. Europeans and other Palestinian partisans point to the fact that the Israel lobby in America is one of the strongest anywhere, and Jewish individuals and organizations give millions of dollars to political candidates in order to reward pro-Israel policies and punish those who support the Palestinians. Another reason, however, is the near-complete domination by pro-Israel partisans of the punditocracy discourse."
big hack attack
"CopVCia Site Hacked Down"
she blows me away
"A teenage girl's path to suicide bomber"
'Face Of Teen Girl Suicide Bomber"
"At 18, bomber became martyr and murderer"
look within
guess i cant let this krugman slide without comment. he makes it seem like all this was unclear until he had read brocks book. maybe he should be asking his own paper why they helped fuel the anti-clinton hysteria in the mainstream press. cursor has a nice cache of brock related links in the left hand column.
reposing rip(h)oste
simple voluntary action
left jab
"Note: CounterPunch will be on the road for the next week and will not be updating the website until March 31. But we leave you with a week's worth of extraordinary stories to keep you occupied in the meantime, ranging from a history of James Bond and a tribute to Tammy Wynette to Nobel laureate José Saramago on global capitalism and Edward Said on the ruins of the Oslo Accords. Plus, we offer you a special Easter Week reading treat: Wilhelm Reich on the last hours of Christ and Claud Cockburn on the "horror of it all"."
poker face
"Many years ago, when I was young and still in search of wisdom, I went on a pilgrimage to meet the man I thought was the wisest in the world. I came away wiser, though what I learned was what most pilgrims learn, which is that if you want to become wise you should not go on pilgrimages. I hadn't thought much about the pilgrimage, or the wise man, until the past few months, when a friend sent me a new book that brought it, and him, back to mind."
slouching to the right
today seems to be the day when the national media proclaim that the republicans are looking good for the '02 midterm elections. the democrats are confused while the repugs are focused and resolute. otherwise the focus remains on sharon's intransigence and more sabre-rattling towards uncle saddam. the washington post sure is ready to roll. lastly, this gallup poll takes our collective pulse. spin the numbers which ever way your political wind doth blow, everybody else does.
eggs over medium
"Fear & Favor is FAIR’s annual review of incidents that reflect the range of pressures on reporters to use something other than journalistic judgment in deciding what goes in the news and what gets left out. The year 2001 presented special challenges in this regard. The horrific September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the ensuing declaration by the Bush administration of an open-ended "war on terrorism," meant incredible pressure on the press corps to present U.S. actions and policy in the best light; incidents of outright censorship occurred, and even more self-censorship, as many outlets confused independent inquiry with a lack of patriotism."