Haaretz says, the boycott of settlement industries is taking its toll… And Britain is cranking up its fight against the settlements. (Rule of journalism: you need 3 instances to make a trend.) J Street took it to the Hebron Fund…
I have to start a thread on All the People Who say that I/P is the Big Enchilada. Brent Scowcroft/Brzezinski. Iraqi Ambassador Samir Sumaida’ie. Well here’s a video I’ve never seen before of Nicholas Burns, former under secretary of state,…
Lately I blogged about Jerry Slater’s important piece on Tom Friedman in Tikkun. Well now Ralph Seliger is going after it. Why Slater resuscitates the issue of who was more at fault in the breakdown of the peace process in…
Intifada: an Arabic word meaning “shaking off.” Here is Abraham Lincoln, then a congressman, speaking in the House in January 1848 against the imperialist goals of the Mexican War. The war’s pretext was to safeguard the right of the people…
A few weeks ago I blogged about my social class: privileged servants, people providing essential services to the rich. Well I wanted to register their/our feelings about the coming Deprecession (pronounced deep recession). Basically, bring it on. It’s coming, they…
Here’s a rumor appearing on a Wall Street traders’ site 3 years ago that the SEC was planning to shut down Madoff and all his hedge funds. Just a rumor. The tipster who tipped me off to this says that…
in this interesting piece on the rapidly-declining number of mainstream reporters in Washington– The Bloomberg News bureau has expanded in recent years, and a few Internet sources, like Politico, are still expanding, but the number of journalists added is a…
Today’s the final day of the American campaign to support the shministim, the Israeli kids refusing to serve the occupation, but I don’t see it getting covered here, I do see it in Haaretz: because Haaretz is trying to save…
Eric Konigsberg has a piece on the front page of the Times today about Walter Noel, a big loser in the Madoff tank. Noel lives in Connecticut and is club friends with a John J. McCloy, whose name resonates, and…