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I'm a 42 yr. old physician and philosopher. My home is in Pennsylvania where my father's German grandfather settled over 100 years ago. I've lived overseas for 11 of the last 15 years, including Izmir, Turkey, in the heart of the Ionian birthplace of philosophy. There I fell in love with Greek architecture and history. Now I'm working as a physician in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia....
Posted: Mon, Feb 17, 2003 2:40am PST
Ha'aretz quotes unnamed Israeli defense officials in describing President Bush as being "on a mission from god." The officials expect a war to begin later this month or in early February....
Posted: Mon, Feb 17, 2003 1:43am PST
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Posted: Sun, Feb 16, 2003 9:28pm PST
Dr. Ilan Pappe is a Profesor of History at Haifa University. This article is based upon the transcript of a lecture presented by Dr. Pappe to the Right To Return Coalition - Al Awda UK, held at the School for Oriental and African Studies in London Monday 16th September 2002. It is hereby published after receiving Dr. Pappe's consent and editorial remarks....
Posted: Fri, Feb 14, 2003 5:56pm PST
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Posted: Fri, Feb 14, 2003 2:51pm PST
Dr. Ilan Pappe is a Profesor of History at Haifa University. This article is based upon the transcript of a lecture presented by Dr. Pappe to the Right To Return Coalition - Al Awda UK, held at the School for Oriental and African Studies in London Monday 16th September 2002. It is hereby published after receiving Dr. Pappe's consent and editorial remarks....
Posted: Fri, Feb 14, 2003 1:32pm PST
We the undersigned DEMAND that the Palestinian National Authority nullify the "Jericho Deal" [a/k/a/ "Muqata'a Deal"] and cancel the "new Israeli roadmap" plan and abide by the decision of the Palestinian High Court decision on June 3, 2002...
Posted: Fri, Feb 14, 2003 11:27am PST
The military wing of the Fatah Movement, confirmed that leaders of various factions were in agreement over continuation of resistance under a unified and secret leadership....
Posted: Fri, Feb 14, 2003 11:24am PST
Democratic socialism as a transformational process could remedy the social coldness and ecological blindness of neoliberalism and its total absolute market. This article is translated from the German in: Utopie kreativ, 2000....
Posted: Fri, Feb 14, 2003 9:31am PST
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Posted: Thu, Feb 13, 2003 1:54pm PST
Later I saw a mother who had traveled 200 km with her young daughter. She came to the hospital because she heard it had a supply of Pentostam, the medicine needed to treat [her] disease. The pediatrician told her there was none. Then he turned to me and, in English, said, "It would be kinder to shoot her here rather than let her go home and die the lingering death that awaits her". Our interpreter, by instinct, translated the doctor's comments into Arabic for the mother, whose eyes ...
Posted: Thu, Feb 13, 2003 10:51am PST
Rabbi Lerner has been banned by ANSWER from addressing the antiwar demonstrations on 15 Feb . He has been banned as a "pro-Israel" speaker. But Lerner has been fighting against Israeli govt policies for years..........
Posted: Thu, Feb 13, 2003 8:07am PST
Sure, Senator Byrd attacks President Bush, but he remains myopic by blaming i.e. immigrants for the problems of the Nation-hood by saying, among many other things, that the present administratin "has been reluctant to better protect our long and porous borders." Though some of Byrd's words are a welcomed opposition to Bush's mad drive for war, his message is a show of aggression to immigrant rights. Like another cowboy of the wild west his are the words of divide an conquer aiming a...
Posted: Wed, Feb 12, 2003 10:09pm PST
STATEMENT FROM FEB. 16 ANTI-WAR COALITIONS
REGARDING RABBI MICHAEL LERNER...
Posted: Wed, Feb 12, 2003 1:49pm PST
A response by the four groups organizing the February 16th march and rally to allegations of anti-semitism by Rabbi Michael Lerner and others....
Posted: Wed, Feb 12, 2003 8:37am PST