[Neve Gordon has appeared many times on this blog. I don't usually do "guest posts" but I received an email with what follows and asked Professor Gordon for his permission to reprint it here. The far-right in Israel is crossing dangerous boundaries. --the editor]
Chris Hedges is a writer and thinker whom I greatly admire. In the past I have written about his book War is Force that Gives us Meaning. Recently I came across an article he wrote at Truthdig, Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction, which is both insightful and depressing. About a year ago I [...]
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The attacks against Judge Goldstone’s report on the Gaza war fall into three categories: personal attacks against him, attacks on the accuracy and veracity of the findings and attacks against the UN body that commissioned the report. In this recent interview with Bill Moyers, Judge Goldstone responds to all these attacks and others as well. [...]
I realize its been a month since I’ve posted here, and I have restricted myself to posting articles in Twitter. I’ve been extremely busy with a move and with work, so I just haven’t had time to write more extended pieces. Just to share a bit of where I’ve moved, what folows are a copy [...]
In discussing my previous post with some friends, it occurred to me that the Declaration of Independence, which expresses the fervent hopes of the founders of this country, is famous for its phrase: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among [...]
On more than one occassion I have expressed my outrage at the “progressive”/”liberal” mantra that the US is “a nation of laws” and the associated demand to call Bush & Co to account for their war crimes. According to this narrative, Bush & Co are to blame for the sorry state we are in: using [...]
Exactly seven years ago I wrote an article about Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon and his references to the army applying “chemotherapy” to the Palestinian “cancer” in the West Bank and Gaza. As I noted then, the language he used is the language of fascism. Along with Lieberman (who also shows all signs of being a fascist) [...]
A clear and clever presentation of how we must deal with global warming using game theory. Worth the watch:
One of the saddest aspects of Israel’s occupation and militarization has to do with the the huge role arm sales now play in the Israeli economy. It wasn’t always this way, and someday I hope to write a longer piece on the topic and my own peripheral involvement in this area. Besides the morally despicable [...]
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