As I mentioned in Philosophy 43 last night, Paul Krugman, Princeton Economist, is a good bellwether as to what may be coming in our economic future. His NY...
Judging a Book by Its Cover and Its Content A review of “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid” by Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster, November 2006) Posted: November...
http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/ Wednesday, November 29, 2006 Humanity lost We stood and we waited and we cried and we returned back to Egypt yesterday,...
A short time ago Rohit was telling us about the benefits of the Indian moral situation in the 1950s. I wonder if he would like to comment on the figures ...
In 2003 the American Philosophical Association passed the following resolution: Early in 2003 members of the Eastern Division voted by mail ballot on the...
This is noting to do with those who are outside America. It however seems worth drawing to the attention of people living in America, and a possibility of...
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7FBC2CF9-DDF6-46AC-90C4-F0B89ABD7D95.htm NEWS MIDDLE EAST UN: Israel breaks border agreement By Laila El-Haddad at the...
Last update - 11:23 02/12/2006 New UN resolutions back Palestinian right to a state By The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS - The General Assembly approved...
Why am I not surprised by any of this, and why do I think that it rather runs contrary to Smugsy's angry rejection of my suggestion that Gaza was being treated...
[Some may have noticed that the Mother from Gaza is getting a bit impatient at being blocked at the borders from returning home with her son and so has done...
It is almost sad to watch Bush now -- an energizer bunny beginning to run down. I recall my first awareness of this guy and my outrage with his then smirking...
Following is the text of the radio address I wrote about in yesterday's blog <http://go.sojo.net/ct/v7qi4b51QRh8/> , which was broadcast this morning. +...
NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF in the NY Times today: Granted, religious figures have been involved throughout history in the worst kinds of atrocities. But as Mao...
Jim Wallis of the Sojourners is an old fashioned evangelical, i.e. a Christian concerned with carrying out the Gospel message of peace on earth and good will...
[Dorothy Naor's Response to Abraham Foxman's review of Carter's Palestine Peace Not Apartheid: Some years ago I served on a forum in which peace seeking and...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120306Z.shtml North and South By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff Haaretz Saturday 02 December 2006 1. The Third Lebanon War ...
The account of the treatment of Jose Padilla here matches the Nazi practices that we so deplored during WW2. Those in charge of such are criminals from the...
http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/ Monday, December 04, 2006 what do I tell a two-year-old? He keeps asking me about the border. Yousuf, I mean. He...
Last update - 12:43 05/12/2006 Israel offering to free 1,000 for release of Shalit By Avi Issacharoff and Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondents A senior Israeli...
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Nicholas D. Kristof. In the 1990s, we became more aware of the importance not only of I.Q. to success but also of "E.Q." —...
This came into my inbox. I have one or two reservations, but the main thrust is sound. Edward by David Isenberg | December 5th, 2006 Tomorrow is the day when...
I don't know where Smugsy is or if he has taken the advice and gone away. Here is an article which follows up much of what the government which he has been an...
================ Dear Stuart, it is this insensitivity which I have been speaking about, and I am afraid, you have not been listening. But of course if you...
... Sorry, have been off-line for a few days and just getting back. Much to catch up on. Will try to do that today, if time permits. In the meantime, I seem to...
So that what discussion there is on the Iraq Study Group Report is actually from the original source, and not filtered through some newspaper, here is a link...
I'm not sure if you have been advocating that Bush should actually learn Arabic, or that he should have a firmer grasp of the culture of the area so that he...
http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/ Wednesday, December 06, 2006 Home sweet home At last-we've made it through. We left at 6am, and by later afternoon were...