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The Middle East: Rivers of blood
If You Want Peace, Work For Justice says the Central Virginia Progressive BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Bill Moyers on Mideast Violence | PBS Transcript BILL MOYERS: In a city made noisy by hammers and saws preparing for the inauguration of a new president — a city already reverberating with partisan rancor, and with the constant…
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A little history
MIDEAST How We Got to This Point By Kevin Peraino, NEWSWEEK, From the magazine issue dated Jan 12, 2009 Three recent books chart the winding path from Kermit Roosevelt with his suitcases stuffed with cash to George W. Bush’s gloomy Nobel Prize prospects. Barack Obama said virtually nothing last week about the fighting in Gaza.…
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. . . or Mexico
Gaza Is Not Toronto: It Has Been Under Full Occupation For Over 40 Years By M.J. Rosenberg – January 10, 2009, 8:57PM “I ask any of my colleagues to imagine that happening here in the United States. Rockets and mortars coming from Toronto in Canada, into Buffalo New York. How would we as a country…
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“Enemies of freedom”
Gaza Needs a George Orwell Now By Jim Sleeper – January 11, 2009, 12:48AM Israel is barring independent journalists from Gaza, but The New York Times, relying on Palestinian correspondents there, reports that “Hamas, with training from Iran and Hezbollah, has used the last two years to turn Gaza into a deadly maze of tunnels,…
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When David is the Goliath
Israel Has Killed 3 Times As Many Civilians As They Have Hamas Fighters Gaza Children Found With Mothers’ Corpses By ALAN COWELL PARIS — The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday it had discovered “shocking” scenes — including small children next to their mothers’ corpses — when its representatives gained access for the…
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16th minute
by Zina Saunders Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe The Plumber, is off to be a war correspondent for Pajamas TV, a right wing blog network. Not known for his honesty and truth-telling, Joe is heading out to set the record straight about the conflict in Gaza. Here’s a link to more about Joe’s latest…
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Freyne exits stage right
Peter Freyne, R.I.P I am not familiar with Seven Days, the publication that Peter Freyne last worked for, but I don’t believe that’s the paper he worked for when I toiled as a general assignment reporter at the Burlington Free Press from 1988 to 1990. I was always wary of him but, since I did…
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Can you call it a war if . . .
Can There Be Politics in Tragedy? Or in Gaza? By Jim Sleeper – January 4, 2009, 6:22PM I’m immersed in long-range writing and leave tomorrow for six months in Berlin, but the Gaza war provokes me to share a brilliant essay by Darry Li, a doctoral student in anthropology and Middle East Studies at Harvard…
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Uri Avnery’s peace proposal
MEMO FOR OBAMA ON ISRAEL For: the President-Elect, Mr. Barack Obama. From: Uri Avnery, Israel. The following humble suggestions are based on my 70 years of experience as an underground fighter, special forces soldier in the 1948 war, editor-in-chief of a newsmagazine, member of the Knesset and founding member of a peace movement: -1- As…