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Kufr Aqab and the ‘Cleansing’ of Jerusalem
By NEIL HERTZ I had paid little attention to the village of Kufr Aqab when I was living in Ramallah in the winter and spring of 2011. It ...
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Seeing from Scratch: A Paleo Diet
By RICHARD DIENST “Learn to see before learning to read.” — Jean-Luc Godard, Film Socialisme (2011) Do we really need to learn how to see? We usually assume ...
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Podemos Stumbles
By JOHN McCLURE The Long Campaign For many progressive-minded Spaniards, the last couple of years have been a time of hope. Disgusted by the Socialist government’s capitulation to ...
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Returning to Gompers after the New Labor History
By ROSANNE CURRARINO Samuel Gompers has gotten a bad rap from historians. In the last thirty years he has been called: self-serving, autocratic, bitter, imperious, an over-fed fat cat, a ...
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Burying Lynch
By JAMES BRUGGEMAN This past summer was dogged by deaths of friends and acquaintances. We buried Lynch in August. He died in June in his motel room where ...
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On Sabotage
By R.H. LOSSIN I am not going to attempt to justify sabotage on any moral ground. If the workers consider that sabotage is necessary, that in itself makes sabotage moral. ...
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Beyond Prometheanism: Green Technology in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy
By PHILLIP R. POLEFRONE Almost a thousand people stand on Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in our solar system, and watch as an ice asteroid leaves a gash in the ...
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Up on the Roof
By COREY ROBIN Every week in synagogue, as we return the Torah to the ark, we sing a prayer that concludes, “Chadesh Yameynu K’Kedem.” The line has been ...
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Marching for Food Justice
By MARGARET GRAY Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge on May 21, 2016 with “Justice for Farmworkers” banners, the 200 marchers caught a glimpse of the Statue of Liberty and her ...
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Love Letters to Zionists: A podcast based on love letters from Jewish anti-Zionists to a beloved Zionist in their life
By TAMMY KREMER Long before becoming an anti-Zionist artist, I remember running around the synagogue in my flower print dress as a young girl waving the Israeli flag; ...
