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It is, as David Remnick once ponderously observed, a fine thing to dream. The truth is somewhat grimmer. There are a lot of Global Souths. But sometimes, they get together and stir up some wild mischief. That’s what going to happen today, in Doha, Qatar, where Arab and Latin American leaders are meeting for the second […] Normally I view Jewbonics’ front-page real estate as a place for things like applauding global resistance movements, attacking the half-wits who masquerade as intellectuals in Western culture, highlighting the horrors in Palestine, making fun of Eric Alterman, and attempting to soberly analyze the heresies and orthodoxies of Latin American governments viz. structural economic change. But for […] In London on Saturday, some 35,000 people, according to police “estimates,” came out to protest the G-20 (the proceedings are ably chronicled over at Lenin’s Tomb). At an event in Chile preceding the G-20, described by the BBC as a “G20 warm-up meeting”–The Inter-Press Service described the meeting as a “two-day gathering of self-styled progressive world […] Left-wing opinion on whether or not a two-state solution is still feasible bifurcates into two camps. One says Yes. The other says No. Norman Finkelstein, for example, argues that the rational strategy is, OK, not to try to defy the international community with your own or someone else’s more radical slogans, but rather to bring to bare […] Interested extranjeros want to know. In the fiery belly of anti–Semitism/imperialism/semism/imitism (it’s hard to keep stuff straight these days), the land of arepas, the Ezequiel Zamora National Peasant Front, and XXIst Century Socialism, Hugo Chavez has announced, according to the Ma’an News Agency, that an office representing the Palestinian National Authority will open in Caracas on […] So Jewbonics’ eleventeen loyal readers know well that if there’s one buffoon I love pillorying, it’s Eric Alterman, and if there’s one topic on which, without fail, he will produce commentary of a particularly exquisite type of stupidity, it’s Israel-Palestine. Add to this wondrous mix that there are credible reports that Eric held forth live, without […] A member of my Israel-Palestine committee in Brooklyn for Peace sent me this video. I forwarded it on to one of Jewbonics’s most articulate correspondents–serious–who described the video posted above with the phrase quoted in the title. She was totally correct. One could be forgiven for thinking it a dead-pan satire of the first rank. It’s […] First, check out what the North American lider maximo has elected to do in response to what the World Bank is now calling a “depression”: other than a feeble and ineffectual series of quarter-measures that will do nothing but stave off the worst, he smiles, jiving and jibing with Jay Leno, explaining that he had no […] So some version of the following should be going up on NACLA at some point in the near future. But since Jewbonics is doing some reconnaissance on Mexican culinary traditions somewhere unfortunately far from Zapatista territory, I’ll post it in lieu of an offensive rant about Elie Wiesel, Eric Alterman, Thomas Friedman, or the usual serried […] The following response to Nikolas Kozloff’s article, available on the “progressive” website BuzzFlash, was rejected on grounds that this author is anti-Semitic. There’s a certain old-world respect for epistolary communication that suggests that e-mails between private parties should be privileged as personal correspondence. So I’ll restrict myself to saying that Buzzflash’s editor and publisher, Mark Karlin, […] |
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