Daily Archives: 4 June 2008

Nakba Mobile Billboard from Joshua Stephens on Vimeo Discover more about the billboard and other education projects here. Read an e-mail describing reactions to the billboard’s week-long campaign below the fold.

By Ullrich Fichtner, Spiegel Online, 29 May 2008 Forty nations are embroiled in an unwinnable war in Afghanistan. Anyone who travels through the country with Western troops soon realizes that NATO forces would have to be increased tenfold for peace … Continue reading →

In three words of a belligerent, hateful speech riddled with Dennis Ross-ian untruths & fear-mongering, Barack Obama revealed to AIPAC conference goers that he intends to channel and support the most extremely hawkish and bitterly divisive positions on the Israeli … Continue reading →

Nicholson Baker resurrects the pacifist critique of WWII By JONATHAN SCHELL, Bookforum, June/July/August 2008 Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker In form, Human Smoke is unique. Nicholson Baker seeks to tell … Continue reading →

Democrats regained control of Congress by promising to stand up to Bush. So why does the Senate leadership keep rolling over without a fight? TIM DICKINSON, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2008 Every Democrat in the Senate likes to imagine himself … Continue reading →