Beautiful piece of reporting by James Besser for the NY Jewish Week on the growing schism between J Street Jews and the neocons in organizational life, now crystallized by the George Mitchell rumors. Two voices of the lobby: “Sen. Mitchell…
lest they be prosecuted for war crimes when traveling to arts festivals and policy conferences abroad… (thanks to Deika Mohamed for tip).
Phil Weiss: Good afternoon, fight fans. That headline is an homage to the late heavyweight champion Sonny Liston, who said after moving to Denver from Philadelphia, where he’d been arrested several times: “I’d rather be a lamppost in Denver than…
The world is changing. Yesterday, when most people were focused on Obama, Michael Ratner (who works at the Center for Constitutional Rights and pressed the lawsuit against Caterpillar springing from the killing of Rachel Corrie in Gaza in 2003) was…
Last week I had a conversation with a friend in the mainstream media about whether the bloggers in Gaza are reliable. Of course he has a point. But at a time when there were few mainstream reporters in there: please….
Phil Weiss: This is a picture of Mohammad of Vancouver. The picture was taken last week at an art intervention: A group of artists did pieces of political art about Gaza at some art galleries, unsolicited. One of the pieces…
Here is a fabulous piece by the great Glenn Greenwald pointing out the insanity of the Israeli/neocon support for the Iraq war as a naked means of guaranteeing Israel’s security. In one horrific quote Greenwald has discovered, Shimon Peres likens…
I think it has. My office is a lot silenter in the morning than it used to be. I talk to editors in short emails. All these kids texting rather than phoning one another–they are leading us. They recognize the…
The quicker you admit a mistake the better, right? My earlier post on Obama’s speech was wrong. It wasn’t B-, it’s B+, maybe even A-. I got too hung up on the language, which I didn’t care for. Its goodness…