It was closer than anyone could have expected, but Madison failed to do "something no other city has had the guts to do...form an official sister city relationship with a Palestinian city." A city council member was reduced to tears by "how 'cruel' and 'hateful' some...
Well, I'm kidding, Madison wasn't really considering asking for a National Guard presence at the city council meeting which will decide the fate of the Rafah Sister City proposal. And it has decided not to deploy the police, even though the emotion will be "intense,"...
A letter writer to Madison's Capital Times finds herself "troubled by the hostility and even hysteria of those opposed to the Madison Rafah sister city proposal." "Hysterical" is certainly a good word to describe Madison Jewish Community Council board member Lester...
Senator Edward Kennedy has called the Iraqi prison scandal "the steepest and deepest fall from grace in the history of our country," "Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management." As a result, "America is being vilified throughtout the Middle East and in...
Information Clearing House has a link to a Der Spiegel report "More Than 100 Children Imprisoned, Report Of Abuse By U.S. Soldiers." When I first tried the link, it didn't work, so I did a search on "100 children imprisoned." It kicked out a story from April 8, 2003,...
The Erez Industrial Zone in Gaza is notorious as a borderline industrial slave labor camp (on occupied land), though of course its creation has long been touted as a supreme act of benevolence by Israel, which of course wishes only to show how much it wants friendship...
In an immediate response to 9/11, Robert Fisk noted "the utter, indescribable evil of what has happened in the United States," but he also warned that "[T]his is not really the war of democracy versus terror that the world will be asked to believe in the coming days....
I was on welfare back in the 1960s. That was a way of showing contempt for society's "work/progress" ethic, and if the state was willing to subsidize me while I protested the war and volunteered at the co-op, fine. Caseworkers loved my brownies, but the joke was on...
On Sunday, AP reported that the US military is "lowering its profile" in order "to avoid alienating its Iraqi allies who take power at the end of the month." The military has been criticised for it "heavy-handed tactics," hence the...
