October 2011

The value of talking to Hamas

by News Sources 10.19.2011

Gershon Baskin, a columnist for the Jerusalem Post and founder and co-director of the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information, describes his role in securing the release of Gilad Shalit. But suppose a Post colleague of his such as Caroline Glick had been given the same opportunity. For the sake of upholding the “principle,” [...]

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David Graeber: On playing by the rules — the strange success of #OccupyWallStreet

by News Sources 10.19.2011

David Graeber writes: Just a few months ago, I wrote a piece for Adbusters that started with a conversation I’d had with an Egyptian activist friend named Dina: All these years,” she said, “we’ve been organizing marches, rallies… And if only 45 people show up, you’re depressed, if you get 300, you’re happy. Then one [...]

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Inside Homs, besieged centre of Syrian resistance

by News Sources 10.19.2011

Sue Lloyd-Roberts reports: “You’ll never get there,” Syrians living outside the country said to me when I told them I was on my way to the city of Homs. “It’s circled by tanks on the outside and there’s an army checkpoint on every street corner inside the city.” Homs was one of the first cities [...]

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Yemen’s brave women revolutionaries

by News Sources 10.19.2011

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As assassination plot becomes a sideshow, U.S.-Iran tensions hinge on the nuclear issue

by News Sources 10.19.2011

Tony Karon writes: A used car salesman, a Mexican narco snitch, and an Iranian spook walk into a bar. What is this, says the ex-CIA barman, some kind of a joke? Let’s just say that the ostensibly Iranian plot to blow up Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Washington is not yet proving to be the smoking [...]

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New U.N. Sec Gen report slams Israeli occupation justice system

by News Sources 10.19.2011

Roee Ruttenberg writes: In the last twenty-four hours, so much attention has been given to Palestinians with Israeli “blood on their hands” being released from prison, but little-to-no attention has been given to Israelis with Palestinian “blood on their hands” who never went to prison in the first place. A new report by the United [...]

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U.S. awaits inquiry ahead of Bahrain arms deal

by News Sources 10.19.2011

Al Jazeera reports: The US has said that it will consider a special investigation of alleged human rights abuses in Bahrain before moving ahead with a $53m arms deal to the Gulf kingdom. In a letter to Ron Wyden, a US Democratic senator, and in public statement, the state department said on Tuesday that it [...]

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U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Shamar Thomas gives NYPD a lesson on honor

by News Sources 10.19.2011

United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas from Roosevelt, NY went toe to toe with the New York Police Department. An activist in the Occupy Wall Street movement, Thomas voiced his opinions of the NYPD police brutality that had and has been plaguing the #OWS movement. Thomas is a 24-year-old Marine veteran (two tours in [...]

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The U.S. government has abandoned its own people

by News Sources 10.19.2011

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Gilad Shalit and the end of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process

by News Sources 10.18.2011

Tony Karon writes: As momentous as Tuesday’s release of Sergeant Gilad Shalit and 477 Palestinian prisoners (with another 550 to freed within two months) may be, it is unlikely to be a game-changer — or a milestone on the road to peace. Indeed, while the spectacle of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu breaking the ostensible taboo [...]

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The evolutionary roots of collective intelligence

by News Sources 10.18.2011

Big Think: For much of the 20th century, social scientists assumed that competition and strife were the natural order of things, as ingrained as the need for food and shelter. The world would be a better place if we could all just be a little more like John Wayne, the thinking went. Now researchers are [...]

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A dark day in Israel

by News Sources 10.18.2011

In early October, Eyal Raz described the incident on which this Bloggingheads conversation centers: Were you ever at a lynching? Were you ever someplace where an unbridled mob was beating you and your friends and then chasing you to beat you again? Were you ever the victim of wild violence before the blind eyes of [...]

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The Occupy Wall Street image that marks the end of the global consensus

by News Sources 10.18.2011

Jonathan Jones writes: A New York police officer leans forward and yells as if attempting, with the sheer force of his anger, to hold back time. His rage is understandable for, in this photograph, you can actually see the world turn upside down and all that was solid melt into air. This truly is a [...]

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Occupy Wall Street finds mainstream support

by News Sources 10.18.2011

Will Oremus writes: If Occupy Wall Street is a fringe movement, it’s looking like a pretty big fringe. In a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday, two-thirds of New York City voters said they support the protests. The backers included 81 percent of Democrats and, perhaps more surprisingly, 35 percent of Republicans. And an overwhelming majority, [...]

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Time for the U.S. to stop bankrolling Israel’s defense

by News Sources 10.18.2011

Walter Pincus, in a column for the Washington Post, writes: As the country reviews its spending on defense and foreign assistance, it is time to examine the funding the United States provides to Israel. Let me put it another way: Nine days ago, the Israeli cabinet reacted to months of demonstrations against the high cost [...]

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Rebecca Solnit: This land is your (occupied) land

by TomDispatch 10.18.2011

Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com The other day in my Manhattan neighborhood, a woman passed me in the street. She was obviously headed for a demonstration somewhere in the big city, with a sign tucked sideways under her arm. I could just make out the large black letters on a white background that said: “I [...]

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With $53 million arms sale, U.S condones ongoing repression of Bahraini people

by Paul Woodward 10.18.2011

Last week, Josh Rogin reported: Five Democratic senators wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday to ask her to delay a planned $53 million arms sale to Bahrain because of the island kingdom’s continued violence against protesters. “We recognize the administration’s commitment to the United States’ strategic relationship with Bahrain… However, the Bahrain [...]

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Significant holes in U.S. legal case against alleged Iran plotter

by News Sources 10.18.2011

Marcy Wheeler writes: In the wake of the Obama Administration’s announcement that an Iranian-American used car salesman had set up a plot to kill the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S., a number of Iran and intelligence experts have raised questions about the plausibility of the alleged Iranian plot. But few have commented on problems in [...]

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The deal behind the “Shalit deal”: prisoners, power, racism

by News Sources 10.18.2011

Toufic Haddad writes: Passing judgment on the Shalit deal cannot take place from a detached precipice of moral or political purity but, rather, must derive from an appreciation for the basic balance of forces at play between the contending parties and their historical precedents in relations between one another. There are no absolute criteria for [...]

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Bill Black and David DeGraw call for the prosecution of fraudulent bankers

by News Sources 10.17.2011

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Ending the 30-year stranglehold on the human imagination

by News Sources 10.17.2011

David Graeber writes: It’s becoming increasingly obvious that the real priority of those running the world for the last few decades has not been creating a viable form of capitalism, but rather, convincing us all that the current form of capitalism is the only conceivable economic system, so its flaws are irrelevant. As a result, [...]

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Occupy Phoenix — who do the police protect and serve?

by News Sources 10.17.2011

The Associated Press reports: Authorities in Arizona arrested nearly 100 people after two separate protests in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The 53 arrests in Tucson and 45 in Phoenix on Saturday night came hours after peaceful protests against financial institutions as part of a series of such demonstrations across the country. Police [...]

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What’s behind the “Iranian plot”?

by News Sources 10.17.2011

Laura Secor writes: The weirdness of the Arbabsiar case has, unfortunately, fed a mill that already loves to churn up conspiracies. Who benefits? Blowing up a Washington, D.C., restaurant to kill a Saudi ambassador: exactly what would Iran stand to gain? Is that particular Saudi ambassador really in the way of any Iranian political objective? [...]

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