Interesting analysis of the recent indictment of “former” AIPAC officals by Robert Dreyfuss at tompaine.com August 09, 2005 Important new details of the U.S.-Israeli espionage case involving Larry Franklin, the alleged Pentagon spy, two officials of the American-Israel Public Affairs… Read moreBigger than AIPAC
The L.A. Times had this week two op-eds on Hiroshima. That’s way above average; the NY Times, for example, had none. Instead, the NY Times editors managed to harness the August 6 holocaust to score a political cheap shot in… Read moreHiroshima, or how we learned to build a love-hate relationship with the Bomb
Tricked into enlisting, US soldier found most soldiers would rather self-mutilate than serve in Iraq. Dateline: Sunday, July 24, 2005 as told by Joshua Key, and written up by Annick Cojean for Le Monde, translation at straightgoods.ca I am a… Read moreU.S. army deserter’s log: Zombies in the Fog of War
Reuters: The plot in the Pentagon analyst/AIPAC scandal is about to thicken: U.S. prosecutors plan to announce additional charges on Thursday against a Defense Department analyst accused of illegally disclosing classified defense information, and to charge two former officials of… Read moreAIPAC officials to face charges
Shooter was IDF deserter from W. Bank settlement By Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Agencies A Jewish Israeli man in Israel Defense Forces uniform opened fire on bus passengers in a Druze neighborhood of the Israeli Arab town… Read moreTapuach settler opens fire in a crowded bus, kills four
Editor & Publisher reports on an outburst of integrity in Medialand. The board of The American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) has voted unanimously to reverse an earlier decision to give its annual Conscience in Media award to jailed… Read moreAmerican Society of Journalists and Authors disses Judith Miller
The goodness of Israel is on display again. The crossings to be built in Jerusalem as part of the separation fence will actually improve the lives of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the city’s police chief Ilan Franco has claimed. During… Read moreWall will help Palestinians: Jerusalem police chief
In the Gaza Strip, reality parodies Monty Python. Avid surfers from several Gush Katif communities are threatening to take their boards out to sea on evacuation day and commit mass suicide by drowning. Settlement secretariats, psychologists and social workers have… Read morePopular Suicide Surfer Squad of Judea threatens strike
In the belly of the beast, the Business section of the NYT, appeared today an unbelievably nice article about the Venezuelan socialist revolution underway. The articles describes Chavez’ push to transform both public and private enterprises into worker-managed and worker-owned… Read moreThe Bolivarian revolution goes mainstream
The New York Times, as usual, gives op-ed space to right wing “free market” fundamentalists. In The Price Is Right, August 3, 2005 Pankaj Ghemawat, a professor of business administration at Harvard and Ken A. Mark, a business consultant in… Read moreWal-Mart good for workers, NY Times says
