Zionism’s dead end
Electronic Intifada - 27 Jun 2008
rr r r rr r rr r rr r rr r rr rrr rThe following is adapted from a talk by Jonathan Cook delivered at the Conference for the Right of Return and the Secular Democratic State, held in Haifa on 21 June 2008. In 1895 Theodor Herzl, Zionism’s chief prophet, confided in his diary that he did not favor sharing Palestine with the natives. Better, he wrote, to “try to spirit the penniless [Palestinian] population across the border by denying it any employment in our own country … Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.”

Ecstasy Is the Key to Treating PTSD
AlterNet: War on Iraq - 27 Jun 2008
At last the incurably traumatized may be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. And controversially, ecstasy may be key to taming their demons.

The Supreme Court’s Distressing Ruling on Gun Rights
AlterNet: War on Iraq - 27 Jun 2008
The Court’s decision played into the unhelpful stereotypes of “gun rights” and “gun control.”