Those who follow Palestinian activism, from the McCarthyist “Campus Watch,” to the intrepid Jews Against the Occupation, are aware that Labor For Palestine (LFP) has emerged over the past year as a new campaign in labor internationalism. Yet as LFP prepares for its first national conference in Chicago on July 23, 2005, few know how it began.
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear - one, of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of un-reason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men; Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were - for the moment - unpopular." -- Edward R. Murrow
Someone who turns out to be more of a radical racist wingnut than your usual BNP crowd leaked their membership list to the public. Here is last year's list of the British fascist movement.
E-mail spammers need just one mug in 12.5million to make a profit, a study has revealed. That's a response rate of 0.00000008 per cent – but enough to make up to £2.2million a year if conmen fully exploit the spam network.
Psychopaths are as old as Cain, and they are believed to exist in all cultures, although they are more prevalent in individualistic societies in the West. The Yupik Eskimos use the term kunlangeta to describe a man who repeatedly lies, cheats, steals, and takes sexual advantage of women, according to a 1976 study by Jane M. Murphy, an anthropologist then at Harvard University. She asked an Eskimo what the group would typically do with a kunlangeta, and he replied, “Somebody would have pushed him off the ice when nobody else was looking.”
During the United States election campaign, racists and pro-Israel hardliners tried to make an issue out of President-elect Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein. Such people might take comfort in another middle name, that of Obama's pick for White House Chief of Staff: Rahm Israel Emanuel.
Now that the race is done, go to Google's very sweet In Quotes tool and select Barak and Joe. These are the guys we're going to hear from now. Very interesting to look up their quotes and see the stark differences as well as the morphing of Barak Obama from a borderline true progressive to a Democrat who could win.
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