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Month December 2009

Sam Husseini in Cairo, Following the Gaza Freedom March

I’ve been helping my friend Sam Husseini maintain an impromptu “liveblog” he set up to document his observation as he followed the Gaza Freedom March in Cairo, Egypt. Find all that material on that site: husseini.posterous.com. Some of my contributions in his aid were inadvertently syndicated here, with HTML not escaped properly, etc. I’ve removed [...]

Snowpocalypse Now: Redux

To abuse a cliche: After I got a full night’s sleep, it seemed like a bad dream. But another YouTube clip gone up overnight from my friend and past collaborator Robin Bell corroborates the reality of it all. Yesterday DC was hit with a snowstorm that we’re now told ranks higher than anything in 70 [...]

The rhetoric of escalation and Orwell

Obama’s own hypocrisy undercuts the alleged nobility of his Nobel acceptance speech, the purposeful blindness of some of those who are dismayed by it undercuts their dismay, and the constant creep of collective amnesia that allows for others support the escalation of war and the “logic” offered by Obama is Oslo undercuts our safety. Long [...]