Yesterday, Rep. John Olver (MA-01) sent a "Dear Colleague" letter to Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton requesting that the State Department release funds to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East … [Read more...]
Still on for August
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind... … [Read more...]
The Kadish Affair: Here We Go Again
Here is what we know about Ben-Ami Kadish, today accused of espionage for the government of Israel: 1.According to the criminal complaint, he worked as a mechanical engineer at the Army's Armament Research, Development, and Engineering … [Read more...]
WBUR’s Israel Coverage
I was struck, twice, by an odd notion I heard on WBUR during stories on Israel. First, yesterday evening, Robert Siegel, interviewing Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev, asked, rhetorically, whether President Abbas could really be … [Read more...]
Guerrilla Vlogger: AFL-CIO hosts John Edwards in Manchester, NH with oreos
Tula Connell asked an important question in her excellent Labor Day diary. If Unions are so great then why don't more people join them? Today this is what employers do when you try to start a union: 92% of private-sector employers, … [Read more...]
Israelis/US Army War College: War was a botch
Seems like the Give War A Chance strategy didn't work out so well:Scathing indictments of the way the Israeli government and its military have conducted the longest war in the nation's history filled the country's newspapers and airwaves … [Read more...]
Israel as an underdog
True? Most of the DFA group didn't think so.Let me lay out where I'm coming from on this because I realize it's counter-intuitive. We all grew up wathcinging images in the 1980s of Palestinian youth throwing rocks at … [Read more...]
Reuters fires freelance photographer who altered images
The Reuters news agency has fired a photographer and has withdrawn all 920 of his photographs from its database after it was discovered that the photographer, Lebanese freelancer Adnan Hajj, altered two photographs to make damage from … [Read more...]
Dunkelbarger calls for immediate cease-fire
Someone is standing against the "Give War A Chance" strategy of the Bush Administration in the Middle East: Democrat Phil Dunkelbarger, who is running against US Rep. Steven Lynch in the MA 9th Congressional District:The U.S. should insist … [Read more...]
Continuing the Israel/Hezbollah/Lebanon war is bad business
While Congress marches in lockstep with our administration's "Give War A Chance" logic, let's just do a round-up of opinion:Terrorism expert Jessica Stern of the Kennedy School says it feeds the fad of jihad:Those who attack others, even in … [Read more...]