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Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities, who teaches at Emory, memorably compared abortion to the holocaust in a speech at Hamlton college. Below is a quick summary of her remarks....

Bush seems to have learned the same thing as former president Reagan from the historical experi-ence of the 1930s. Socially oriented programs like the New Deal do not help capitalism out of crisis. What helps are tax cuts and cuts in socialspending...

The 6 Democratic senators voting for the pro-torture Nazi Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, were Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, Ken Salazar of Colorado, Mary Landrieu of Lousiana, Bill Nelson of Florida, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Mark Pryor of Arkansas, proving the Democrats & Republicans both support fascism....

Many Jewish writers have often compared Jews to American Indians, before and after the Holocaust. To take but one example, "Raphael Seligmann has gone on record stating that the Jews are 'the Indians of Germany'” (Friedberg, p. 354). However, the reverse has not been deemed acceptable, particularly since the birth of what Norman G. Finkelstein calls the Holocaust Industry in the Six Day War. For instance, "Rabbi Irving Greenberg, founder of the Holocaust Resource Center and first...

As the United States Senate votes to confirm Judge Alberto Gonzales as the next US Attorney General, religious leaders are seeking forgiveness....

In a move designed to deliver added focus and energy to the organization's work around marriage equality, the Human Rights Campaign board leadership announced today the creation of The Marriage Project....

Bush jr begins his second term between fantasy and reality. More wars threaten instead of freedom and democracy..Permanent war also prevailed in "1984". The "Ministry for Truth" was responsible for propaganda lies and torture....

Empire - the true aim of the U.S. government - is barely concealed under the lofty rhetoric of Bush's State of the Union address. In its pursuit, the U.S. government is committed to the destruction of every government and people that stands in its way, in the Middle East and throughout the world....

Time to get busy defending Biscuit. The LSR is released and the court won't hear the case until March. Large trees are falling and the largest timber sale of modern times could be done before a court ruling....

M. Shahid Alam: It appears that Bill O’Reilly is doing a series on ‘unAmerican’ professors on US campuses. Last night, my wife tells me, he did a piece on Ward Churchill. Tonight will be my turn. I expect he will make all kinds of outlandish accusations that will resonate well with the left- and Muslim-hating members of his audience. This will generate calls and emails to Northeastern and to me – containing threats, calls for firing me, and threats to withhold donations. I am not sure how wel...