If we really want to help Haiti, the advanced developed countries should start by giving Haiti debt forgiveness on the grounds of historical colonial domination.
Allison Killkenny wrote an interesting post on the recent history of Haiti’s debt bondage and ties it to a history of invasion and colonial machinations…. »
Internet archaeologists recently discovered this digital equivalent of a cave drawing, circa 1999.
Looking at its crude copy and paste job, incoherent meaning and the primitive web skills behind a now obsolete form of web animation, they determined the anonymous author was likely a deranged lunatic who through hours of internet porn-inspired self-pleasuring lost… »
It is so easy to forget in the West how extra vulnerable the impoverished parts of the world are to natural disasters. From the more than 200,000 lives lost in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to the at least 1800 people who died as a result of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it is clear… »
The United States government has had such a hard time getting Israel to see its way on the question of ending the Israeli occupation and Palestinian autonomy. How is it that the world’s superpower is relatively weak next to a tiny state of 7 million… »
The New York Times had a write-up about Niveen Rasheed (left), the leading scorer of Princeton University’s women’s basketball team. The Times took particular and primary interest in the fact that her teammate, friend and fellow Bay Areaite, Lauren Polansky, is Jewish.
Whoopty-do…. »
A Toledo man was removed for disruptive behavior on a flight from Miami to Detroit. A 43 year-old Palestinian-American was allegedly speaking in Arabic and stating is desire to kill all Jews. Later he allegedly resisted arrest by pushing an officer who was trying to arrest him (is being disruptive on a plane really… »
A few Arab-American students at a high school in Dearborn, MI got into some trouble for designing and wearing a t-shirt that apparently refers to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The shirt was designed for the 2011 class. School administrators and mostly Arab-American parents got involved in this by holding a public meeting (there… »
With things looking worse than ever for Palestinians, I can only say “Crappy New Year.”
Still, what would the start of the new year on the Gregorian calendar be without new resolutions? Like the United Nations’ resolutions against Israel, the vast majority will go unenforced; but their proclamation has become a tradition of sorts. This list… »
I’m writing to you as friends, colleagues, members of the media, acquaintances and activists. Some of have never met me; others have heard parts of the story I am about to tell. However, I do believe that all of you may have an interest in reading this – it is a story that needs to… »
I forgot to laugh…. »
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