Monthly Archives: August 2008

NICOSIA, CYPRUS (18 Aug. 2008) – In a letter today to the Free Gaza Movement, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs acknowledged that the group of international human rights activists attempting to break the siege of Gaza were “humanitarian,” and … Continue reading →

On 16 August 2008, Saddleback founder and senior pastor Rick Warren interviewed John McCain and Barack Obama at his “non-denominational, Evangelical Christian megachurch” located in Lake Forest, California. A coin toss determined Obama go first as McCain waited in soundproof … Continue reading →

Slavoj Zizek, The New Statesman, 14 August 2008 A new account of Haiti’s recent history shows how the genuinely radical politics of Lavalas and its leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, proved too threatening to the country’s wealthy elite and their foreign backers. … Continue reading →

Two years ago, about a dozen human rights activists devised a plan to sail a boat to Gaza in order to break the siege. We rejected a plan to rent a boat as impractical because a similar venture in 1988 … Continue reading →

MCCAIN: ‘WE ARE ALL GEORGIANS’ Using the Georgian president’s nickname — although mispronouncing his last name — McCain said he spoke with President “Misha” Saakashvili today and reassured him that “the thoughts and the prayers and support of the American … Continue reading →