Efforts to undermine BDS need to be seen in context. (Via Aljazeera) By Samah Sabawi Naomi Chazan, the President of the New Israel Fund (NIF) gave a talk in Marrickville NSW during her recent Australian tour offering a critique of the Palestinian Civil Society call for Boycotts Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Although she presented [...]
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Misdiagnosing the Middle East |More F. Gregory Gause III | May 26, 2011 There is a dangerous consensus about the Middle East based on the assumption that authoritarian politics are the root of instability, violence and anti-Americanism. Thus the United States is obliged, for both its own security and the furtherance of its values, to [...]
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Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
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An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
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This weekend saw the heaviest attacks on Gaza by Israeli forces since the 2008-2009 war on Gaza. Nineteen Palestinians were killed. We speak to Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti, author of the new book Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. After months of extended delays and an international public pressure campaign, in March [...]
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Is there a lesson here for the unelected Australian government?
Obama Faces Mounting Arab Disillusionment by David Elkins, May 18, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On the eve of a much-anticipated address by President Barack Obama on U.S. policy in the Middle East, a new survey suggests that disillusionment with both Obama and Washington’s approaches to the region are once again on [...]
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