June 30, 2007
Posted by yaman
I hate these GPS navigation systems for the same reason I hate religion. If indeed life is a journey, as the old metaphor goes, then we the travellers are the idiots behind the wheel who do not learn how to read the signs on the side of the road, losing all sanity, sense, and security [...]
Posted by yaman
I had a strange and enlightening experience this morning while having breakfast with my father at The Posh Bagel on Sutter Street in San Francisco. A woman in her thirties wearing a short but professional looking black dress (solid color) was seated with a woman similarly dressed but twice her age (no wrinkles, expensive earings). [...]
June 22, 2007
Posted by yaman
“You can lecture me about B’tselem the day you can show there is a B’tselem on your side prepared to do something about human rights violations in the Arab world,” I was once told after citing reports by the Israeli human rights organization B’tselem to mock a claim that the occupation of Palestine was ‘humanitarian.’ [...]
June 18, 2007
Posted by yaman
Chancellor Robert Birgeneau issued a statement in which he says that the British boycott of Israeli universities “violates the fundamental principles of academic freedom and freedom of speech that are the hallmarks of great universities” and that those who “seek to isolate Israeli universities… must also include Berkeley… in [the] boycott.” Putting aside the [...]
June 12, 2007
Posted by yaman
The House of Representatives is preparing a bill that will cut US aid to Egypt, which is the second largest recipient of US money next to Israel.
“The $200 million cut is substantial,” said Rep. James Moran, a Virginia Democrat on the House panel. “Our ally is not upholding the principles that define us.”
Taken to its [...]
June 8, 2007
Posted by yaman
This time, Laurence Thomas of Syracuse University has written a post called “Angry Muslim Arabs and the Black Man” (as if the response he got to his earlier post about there being no Muslim marches for peace was based on the fact he is black). In it he talks about “so-called oppressed groups” (what, you [...]
June 3, 2007
Posted by yaman
I am glad I wrote this comment before realizing that the author of this ridiculous article was a professor at Syracuse University. I like things which re-assert my belief that academia does not confer intelligence unto people. In any case, I had the following to add which is also from another comment:
He clearly is ignorant [...]
June 2, 2007
Posted by yaman
What is unique about elections in Syria? Much has been said by foreign advocates of the American project in the Middle East regarding recent presidential and parliamentary elections in Syria. Condemnations resound, as if they are original or perceptive, when in fact they are mere restatements of facts that are widely known and acknowledged by [...]
Ibrahim Shikaki, a Visiting Scholar from Palestine, spoke in favor of the bill although he did not feel that it was written from the Palestinian perspective. Shikaki explained that “If this were a Palestinian bill it would have mentioned my grandfather’s land that was stolen from him, or my friend w…
Source: electronicintifada.net
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Israeli soldiers prevent students and others from crossing a checkpoint between their homes and schools on the edge of the West Bank city of Qalqiliya on 17
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For the first time in the University of California history, the UC Berkeley Student Senate has approved a bill to divest from two US companies in response to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and to Israel’s siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The Senate bill directs both the UC…
Congratulations everyone!!
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The document shows that U.S. agents are logging on surreptitiously to exchange messages with suspects, identify a target’s friends or relatives and browse private information such as postings, personal photographs and video clips.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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U.S. troops opened fire on a car in western Baghdad, killing an Iraqi journalist and her husband, a police official said Thursday.
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OH, HELLO. Here’s some good news, after years and years of promoting the necessary destruction of Iraq and Iraqis, all for the purpose of a war that diverted the United States from pressing issues of national security, Tom Friedman has declared the Iraq misadventure to be a success and has officiall…
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
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It’s time to rein in the way police and safety officers in New York public schools mistreat students.
Police the police.
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Produced by HuffPost’s Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit On March 4th, 2010, demonstrators in California and across the country took to the streets to protest massive cuts at all levels of education and government imposed austerity measures.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
(Discussion)Frederick Douglas tells us that power concedes nothing without a demand: Street rebellions force the establishment to yield to the demands of the movement or be faced with an ungovernable, rebellious populace. In short, stopping highway traffic in protest of the dismantling of public education was a…
Source: occupyca.wordpress.com
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