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Suppression of expression in an art gallery (it easily happens when Israeli actions are involved)
Please read two online accounts, one in the New Yorker and the other posted on the excellent blog Mondoweiss , about a recent incident at the Gagosi…
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Julian Assange: Did he or didn't he?
I'm linking without comment to the most detailed and interesting article I have seen yet on the sexual misconduct allegations against the WikiLe…
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Obama's betrayal on "Don't Ask Don't Tell" comes home to roost
What will the Obama Justice Department do now that the Senate has pretty much killed repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"? Will it co…
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Another mine explosion: Will the mainstream media get it right this time?
News is breaking today that 27 miners are missing after an explosion in a New Zealand mine . After all the hoopla over the Chilean miners, in which m…
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If you don't like the verdict, move to another "court"?
In his story in today's New York Times about the acquittal of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani on all but one of 285 charges related to the 1998 embassy b…
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Nazis were given safe haven in the U.S.
Someone has leaked a long-suppressed Justice Department report on this topic to the New York Times , which carries an article about it today. A heav…
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Is debate about its history now taboo in Israel?
The photo at right is of Lisa Strombom, a PhD student at Lund University in Sweden. She has just completed and defended (yesterday) a thesis about th…
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Courageous young Jews disrupt Netanyahu speech at Jewish Federations General Assembly
Young Jews Disrupt Netanyahu at Jewish General Assembly from stefanie fox on Vimeo . I'm sure that some critics will try to brand the heroic ac…
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Getz and Coltrane together
This blog is supposed to be about many things, including jazz, but I've been so busy lately I didn't even blog about going to see the sensa…
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Anti-racist actions in Manhattan
Yesterday, September 11, saw three demonstrations in lower Manhattan: One of bigots opposed to the building of an Islamic cultural center at 51 Park …
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Cooking the intelligence on Iraq's alleged WMDs
The August 19 New York Review of Books features an important letter from former intelligence officer Fulton Armstrong about how the Bush administra…
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More on that "Ground Zero Mosque"
I’ve been debating this issue with a Jewish friend of mine who is against the mosque but should know better (he is a liberal and voted for Obama, but…
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You can build a mosque at ground zero when we can build a synogogue in Mecca
This is the caption on one of the signs (see photo at right) held at a protest against the "Ground Zero Mosque" yesterday, August 22. So t…
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Madness over Manhattan mosque
I haven't weighed in on this issue, even though I am about to become a part-time New Yorker, because much ink has been spilled and everyone who r…
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Generous gesture or guilty conscience?
A big debate has broken out in the UK over Tony Blair's announcement that he will donate the entire proceeds from publication of his memoir (whi…
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"Defining Israel as a Jewish state condemns us to living in a racist state."
So says Gideon Levy in a superb column in Haaretz . Please read it. Thanks again to the superb Mondoweiss blog for the heads up.
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- I have been a working journalist for more than 40 years, beginning in Los Angeles as an investigative reporter and then in Paris as a travel, food, and science writer. For more than 20 years I have covered anthropology and archaeology writer for Science, Audubon, Scientific American, SAPIENS, and other publications. I have also covered sexual misconduct for The Verge, Scientific American, and others; I write about mental health, especially schizophrenia; and I engage in occasional media criticism. I returned to the USA in October 2017 after 30 years in Paris, and now live in the New York City area, where I currently teach journalism at City College of New York (I previously taught journalism at Boston University and New York University.) For more about me and what I do, copies of my articles, information about my book, and other goodies, please visit MY WEB SITE
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