A few days ago, the music section of the New York Times carried a piece by Jon Caramanica entitled "Girl Pop's Lady Gaga Makeover." T…
Read moreIf you want to keep up with the struggle against Israeli attempts to drive Palestinians out of Jerusalem with evictions, house demolitions, s…
Read moreFor those very few of you out there who have not yet read my book about Neolithic Catalhoyuk and the dawn of civilization, the Kindle edition is now…
Read moreOne of the most outrageous aspects of the so-called "Jewish state" is the monopoly given to Orthodox Judaism in deciding not only matters o…
Read moreThis is the title of a report issued earlier this week by B'Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization. The group claims that settlers effect…
Read moreThe Israeli human rights organization Gisha , which fights for the rights of movement of Gazans, has launched a new computer game designed to illustr…
Read more... to an Israeli tear gas canister while protesting the Israeli blockade of Gaza. An American Jewish artist, she saw injustice clearly and tried to …
Read moreI'm in a Lorrie Moore phase. I've been in it for a long time, going back and forth chronologically in her bibliography. Reading her first nov…
Read moreI want to call the attention of readers to what I think is one of the best, if not the best, blogs on the Middle East and Israel-Palestine in partic…
Read moreToday's Washington Post has a post-mortem on the primary elections which makes clear that the Tea Party is not quite the powerful movement it w…
Read moreSo says the New York Times today. The Devil Made Me Do It. A great way to avoid personal responsibility. And asking forgiveness before announcing s…
Read more... by Gershom Gorenberg, pictured at right, appears in The American Prospect. Gorenberg has a long history of trying to talk sense to Israelis, not…
Read moreColumnist Gideon Levy of Ha'aretz called it right yesterday when he predicted that Israel would do something stupid today. In a piece entitled &…
Read moreThat's according to a Human Rights Watch report on the Israeli operation "Cast Lead," available at this link . Read it and weep.
Read moreNoam Chomsky and a number of other noted scientists have issued an open letter to Boston's Museum of Science, condemning it for hosting "Is…
Read moreIt didn't take more than a few days for the airline industry to start slamming European officials responsible for air traffic safety, and the med…
Read moreIt would appear that the smoking finger is now being pointed directly at Pope Benedict XVI, as the New York Times today ties him directly to the se…
Read moreI have searched in vain trying to find the original source of this expression, which I recall from the 1960s. If anyone here can provide a source for…
Read moreSometimes visual aids are necessary to see just what the Israelis are up to in Jerusalem and the West Bank. This map and the legend below are from t…
Read moreIsrael's annexation of East Jerusalem is understood by pretty much every nation, including the United States, as a violation of international law…
Read moreHere's the lede of a story in the New York Times today: The Obama administration on Friday gave up on its plan to try the Sept. 11 plotters in …
Read moreAn excellent obituary of the "people's historian" can be found here , and a very recent interview with Zinn about his documentary "…
Read moreWe all know that if an earthquake of the same magnitude that hit Haiti struck a developed Western country, the death toll, while possibly significant…
Read moreI've read a lot about Senator Harry Reid's remarks over the past days, except that he might have been right. That was redressed today in a po…
Read moreI don't know about you, but I am so pleased to have this opportunity to learn so much about Yemen in the past days. Here's Christiane Amanpou…
Read moreWhen a suicide bomber blew up seven C.I.A. agents at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan last week, including the base chief, I waited for…
Read moreThe year is not starting off well. The Obama administration, having made the fatal mistake of escalating troop presence in Afghanistan, is now going …
Read moreI'm back in Paris after a family holiday in Rome and Pompei between Christmas and New Year's Eve (we celebrated the New Year in the taxi comi…
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