By Phil Rockstroh ”Handsomely equipped to fail, I went out into the world.” ― John Fowles, from The Magus Photo: Black Friday Sale courtesy of Fashion.bg. In the consumer paradigm, one is induced to exist by Eric Hoffer’s dictum: “You can never get enough of what you really don’t need.” Wherein: The individual exists in [...]
A Review by Jim Miles of The Ugly Canadian – Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy. (Yves Engler. Fernwood /Red. 2012.) This is another well-supported compilation of information concerning the Canadian government’s foreign policy under Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Some of the topics have been covered before by Engler, others are new, but for both the [...]
By Markus Salzmann. Republished from WSWS Image from Stand Up To Hate. Violent attacks against the Roma minority in Hungary are continuing unabated. It is increasingly clear that the right-wing government led by Prime Minister Victor Orban, which works closely together with the neo-fascist Jobbik party, is deliberately provoking such attacks in order to divert [...]
By Amanda Marcotte. Republished from RH Reality Check The good news about the Rep. Todd Akin situation is that it genuinely seems to have raised the public’s awareness of how much the anti-choice movement is rooted not in some love of fetal life, but in a profound misogyny that focuses heavily on fear of female [...]
By Stephen Lendman Photo – Explosion from Operation Cast Lead. From
Review by Jim Miles of the book by Gershom Gorenberg. Harper Collins, New York. 2011 (Gershom Gorenberg) Many recent works are reflecting an internal crisis within Israel, part of which is the increased power of the ultra-Orthodox Jews within the educational, military, and political systems of Israel. Gershom Gorenberg’s “The Unmaking of Israel” presents clear [...]
By Ramzy Baroud Palestinian citizens of Israel must have been proud of the fact that their collective tenacity always proved stronger than any Israeli attempt at dislocating them from their rightful historical narrative. Now, they are being told to cease and desist from commemorating al-Nakba, the Catastrophe of 1948, which saw the brutal seizure and [...]
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