Daily Archives: 10 May 2006

(from my e-mail) Dear All, Tonight an Israeli television news report (channel 1) seems indicative of things to come, and the word should be spread. The report reveals that a Palestinian city with some 400 structures, narrow alleys, even a … Continue reading →

He asks Congress to encourage it. (from my e-mail) Just when you thought the Bush trade policy could not get crazier, the administration has sprung a new “trade” deal on Congress — a NAFTA expansion to the Middle Eastern Sultanate … Continue reading →

BEIRUT: America’s best-known dissident delivered AUB’s first Edward Said Memorial Lecture at a packed Assembly Hall on Tuesday evening. For those familiar with the MIT linguistics professor’s wry and matter-of-fact delivery, the lecture, entitled “The Great Soul of Power,” was … Continue reading →

10 May 2006 A furious collective heehaw is surely the only proper response to the news that ranking bureaucrats and other occasional speechmakers at the Department of Agriculture have been instructed to include “talking points” of praise for President Bush’s … Continue reading →

The headlines go that an agreement has been reached to give aid directly to the Palestinians, who are dying as I type this, but the U.S.-led campaign to punish the Palestinians for democratically electing Hamas must figure out how to … Continue reading →