Blogger Andrew Sullivan reflects on a milestone: Yes we did. The true dimension of the revolution that Obama realized in American politics is now quantified. This changes everything… in every future campaign, and has just as much resonance for media and fundraising in general. I don’t believe that Obama would have ever been able to…
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A rare case of Zionist compensation
The state will pay human rights activist Brian Avery NIS 600,000 in damages in an out-of-court settlement reached Wednesday with his Israeli lawyer, Shlomo Lecker. Avery, a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM), was shot in Jenin on April 5, 2003 and suffered severe facial wounds. He has undergone at least six operations…
A sinking feeling of deja-vu
Is Barack Obama desperate to channel former President Bill Clinton and his failed foreign policies? Fear the worst.
The resource wars
Overland is Australia’s finest literary journal. I was commissioned to write the lead essay for the new edition, The Resource Wars, on energy, Israel, Zionism, the Middle East and the role of the US in the region: In a striking 2005 essay for the Atlantic, Richard A. Clarke, former chief counter-terrorism adviser on the US…
What our liberation has brought
Robert Fisk, The Independent, November 20: There is a little girl in the Meir Wais hospital with livid scars and dead skin across her face, an obscene map of brown and pink tissue. Then there is another girl, a beautiful child, Khorea Horay, grimacing in pain, her leg amputated, her life destroyed after her foot…
How we will miss the master
President Bush is pushing through a ruling that will make it more difficult for women to get contraceptives. The loosening of restrictions makes it easier for health care workers to conscientiously object to filling birth control prescriptions and the like. The ruling also enjoys the support of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which…