Category Archives: News Feeds

Steve Earle, Where Should the Birds Fly, and Daryn Strauss

"Tremé is the musical heart of New Orleans just like New Orleans is the musical heart of America, and I don't just mean the United States," says Steve Earle, who knows a little something about music. The longtime singer/songwriter and activist has played a role as a street musician in the new HBO series Tremé, and has a long history both with the show's creator, David Simon, and with the city and the neighborhood in which the show is set.
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Mass arrests, clashes follow settler shootings

On 1 September the Palestinian Authority's (PA) security forces launched an unprecedented arrest campaign against Palestinians affiliated with t...
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Worth pondering

Muslim men and women across the world are currently observing Ramadan, a month long celebration of self-purification and restraint. During Ramadan, the Muslim community fast, abstaining from food, drink, smoking and sex between sunrise and sunset. Muslims break their fast after sunset with an evening meal called Iftar, where a [...]
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What we can do

The United States recently extended an invitation to Israel and the Palestinian Authority to re-start direct talks. Both sides accepted. Tomorrow, Israel [...]
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Norman Finkelstein Interview on ReVolt

Interview link: http://revoltradio.blogspot.com/2010/06/re-volt-radio-interviews-drnorman.html
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Daryn Strauss: Watching Women in Digital TV

It's 2010, and for the first time in history, a female filmmaker won an Oscar for Best Directing. Mind you, we've had four women total ever be nominated, so it's tough to win when you're not even in the race. We look on TV and see an abundance of women: Desperate Housewives, The Closer, Damages, Weeds, I could go on. We look at the box office and we see films like Sex and the City and Twilight, which had the highest grossing opening for a film by a female director ever. Even when it comes to comics and heroes, we were given Buffy.
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Israeli Deputy FM says military-administered sanctions on Gaza were “ineffective”

It appears that National Public Radio (NPR) correspondent in Jerusalem, Lourdes Garcia Navarro, managed to get a big admission from Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon: Israel’s two-and-a-half-year-old program of military-administered punitive sanctions against Gaza was “not that effective”. The Israeli military sanctions, which were to have been progressively tightened, were unsupervised by any [...]
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The Fire of Nahr Al-Barid

My weekly article in Al-Akhbar:  "Fire (of Barid) with Flames:  When the Lebanese authority searches for Heroism"**The original title I gave was" ...when the Lebanese Army searches for heroism."
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The Great Jobs Depression Worsens, and the Choice Ahead Grows Starker

by Robert ReichThe Great Jobs Depression continues to worsen.The Labor Department reports this morning that companies created ony 67,000 new jobs in August. That's down from the 107,000 they created in July. And because the government laid off temporar...
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Kevin Keiths Death Sentence Commuted

By Mary ShawGood news for all who care about true justice: On September 2, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland commuted Kevin Keiths death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole
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