Meretz is running an interesting piece by Aaron Ahuvia, a professor of management at the U of Michigan, analyzing the politics of the American Jewish community re the two-state solution. Ahuvia points out that the organized Jewish leadership is now…
Here’s a stunning report on Gaza from a Jewish professor of epidemiology in Canada. It was as if we had travelled to another planet. The sandy track is surrounded by the blown-up remnants of Gaza’s former industrial district. Rubble stretching…
Last night I saw a big black guy and a thin white guy massaging Michael Phelps between closely-scheduled events and was proud for my country. There was no sense of servitude in the service, just American swimming guys. Haaretz goes…
John McCain came back from Vietnam a celebrity in 1973. He was 37 years old and hadn’t seen his wife in nearly six years. A former swimwear model in Philadelphia (a euphemism for pretty) , Carol McCain was McCain’s age…
People are pointing out all the connections between Israel and Georgia, including McCain’s neonate neocon braintrust. But Georgia reminds me of the Palestinians in ’48. Who’s the stronger power here? Russia, of course. As were the Zionists (backed with arms…
A continuing series on How to Think About Darfur, by James North I first looked into the definition of genocide in the early 1980s, when I was writing Freedom Rising, my book about southern Africa. One chapter described the apartheid…
Now that investigations of China’s gamine gymnasts are showing up in the AP and on Huffpo, it feels like we’re turning the corner on polite journalism about repressive China. NBC did a pretty good report Tuesday night on the faking…
Michael Scheuer goes after the “Israel-firsters” again at antiwar.com, attacking the Israel lobby for pushing the war in Iran after getting us into the mess in Iraq. He’s expanded on Walt and Mearsheimer. As has Joe Klein, who went public…
Yesterday on NPR I heard Ben Stiller seeking to rationalize the use of blackface in his black–sorry, noir–war spoof, Tropic Thunder. He said something like, The character played by Robert Downey Jr. is a racist idiot, and his use of…