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Tom Daschle, President Obama’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human services, is facing some hard questions today regarding his failure to pay more than $140,000 in taxes, much of it related to a chauffeur-driven car provided to him by big-time Democratic donor Leo Hindery, Jr.
To make things worse for Daschle, his tax problems came [...]
The morning of Friday, Jan. 16, 2009 was one of the worst moments of my life.
It was the first time in all the years that I’ve worked at the American Civil Liberties Union that I’ve come to work knowing that not only is my friend, Todd, not going to be there that day, but that [...]
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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.
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Barack Obama said virtually nothing last week about the fighting in Gaza. We only have “one [...]
If Obama Is Serious He should get tough with Israel by Aaron David Miller, NEWSWEEK, from the magazine issue dated Jan 12, 2009
Jews worry for a living; their tragic history compels them to do so. In the next few years, there will be plenty to worry about, particularly when it comes [...]
If You Want Peace, Work For Justice says the Central Virginia Progressive
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Bill Moyers on Mideast Violence | PBS
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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 chattering of the opinionated [...]
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 [...]
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, booby [...]
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 first time [...]
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 [...]
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 far as Israeli-Arab [...]
Che - Part 1
(Cert 15)
by Philip French , The Observer, Sunday 4 January 2009
Related: Peter Bradshaw’s review of “Che”
This month is the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and his replacement by Fidel Castro, who, sadly enough, was also to become a dictator. Shortly after the revolution, however, [...]
Lee lays it down for the Guardian
Ever since a college project filming riots in New York in 1977, Spike Lee has used his movies to provide an alternative commentary on life in his home country. Here, he tells John Colapinto what the future holds now that Obama has torn up the script for African-Americans
One morning [...]