AronT on August 30th, 2010

[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]

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AronT on February 17th, 2010

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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AronT on January 20th, 2010

I have cited Colin Dayan’s book Cruel and Unusual several times. Here is a lecture by the author herself:

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AronT on October 29th, 2009

As I’ve noted many times my blood starts to boil when so-called progressives start talking about how we need to return to being “a nation of laws.” As we see in the video, Israel has scrupulously followed the law in perpetrating this crime against innocents:

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AronT on October 26th, 2009

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. [...]

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AronT on September 9th, 2009

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 [...]

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AronT on September 4th, 2009

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 [...]

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AronT on June 18th, 2009

Nearly a year ago I wrote this post on the topic. I actually began the part 2, but let it lie for a while. Given the dramatic events in Iran and the pseudo-debate  in the US about how Obama should react, I find it apt to finish up the topic now.

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AronT on April 30th, 2009

Israel’s has always been relatively tolerant of internal dissent. Relatively meaning exactly what it says. I often cite the fact that at one time meeting with anyone from the PLO was a crime, and Abie Nathan sat in jail for that crime. It is somewhat disturbing that activists from New Profile were recently arrested. Is [...]

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AronT on April 28th, 2009

In his op-ed piece calling for investigations of the Bush & Co torture crimes and prosecutions related to same, Dr. Paul Krugman (a man I greatly admire) says: Sorry, but what we really should do for the sake of the country is have investigations both of torture and of the march to war. These investigations [...]

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