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Overheard on TV
"You avoid the hard conversations, because you don't want to hurt anyone. God forbid someone be mad at you."
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Lakeland Family Separated By Rules at Airport in Israel
Lakeland Family Separated By Rules at Airport in Israel
7 children, declared Palestinians, must stay.
The Ledger - Sep. 6, 2007LAKELAND | The summer wasn't supposed to end like this for the family of Steve and Wedad Yacoub ( Read more... ) -
Human Rights Watch: Hizbullah did NOT use civilians as human shields
Haven't updated this in any newsworthy way in a long while and my guess is that it will stay that way for a while. I'm focusing on some other personal and professional matters at this point, but this was worth taking some time out from that to post:
Why They Died? from Beirut Spring:
The latest Human Rights Report offers a chilling reading on how ( Read more... ) -
Looking for app. 175 individuals from the 1999 WTO protests
Forward to anyone who may need to see this ( Read more... ) -
College Republican Hypocrisy Unmasked
Max Blumenthal is a young blogger who likes to go to conventions and events full of people he disagrees with politically/socially - at least that's my impression - to engage them in dialogue, which usually ends up in 'them' (whoever the 'them' of the day are) proving his point.
Here's an example of what I mean. In Generation Chickenhawk: the ( Read more... ) -
Video: Another invasion on Nablus
This is from Sabbah's Blog posted about a week ago. The Palestinian blogger, Haitham Sabbah, writes from Bahrain to counteract "the lies and biased coverage of news about atrocities in Occupied Palestine", among other things.
This video depicts Israeli Occupation Forces, who had invaded Nablus, trying to get through an activist blockade on July ( Read more... ) -
Feeling into Armenian music
I got in the mood for some Armenian music today at work, so I'm playing the Yerevan Nights Radio station online. It reminded me of this music video they keep playing on the Armenian channel on cable. It's a cooperative piece that includes some of the most talented artists coming out of Armenia right now and the song is a very classic piece called " ( Read more... ) -
I'm Armenian - I come packed with guilt
"Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do."
--Peter McWilliams
EDIT: Additional one from today:
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
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Interview with Moroccan Islamist Nadia Yassine
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,492040,00.html
An interesting read for perspective.
Interview with Moroccan Islamist Nadia Yassine: 'Our Religion is Friendly to Women'She is one of Morocco's most famous opposition figures, she's stood ( Read more... ) -
The media twist
As usual, the media... particularly Fox News... LOVES the opportunity to twist shit around when we're talking about queer women of color of low socio-economic backgrounds.
This is in reference to a previous post I had made on here. This You Tube video is from the O'Reilly Factor (yes, I know, the credibility just sky-rocketed) talking about the ' ( Read more... )