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Always Jewish, lately Palestinian
September 28, 2007I am Jewish because the love of others made me so. I am Jewish because I grew up on the South Side of Chicago; there even my public school was Jewish. I am Jewish because my...
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A Canadian Reds great restlessness
September 28, 2007BOOK REVIEW A Great Restlessness: The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen By Faith Johnston University of Manitoba Press, 2007 Softcover, 361 pp., $24.95 Faith Johnston’s “A Great Restlessness: the Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen”...
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Bolivian adversaries step back from brink
September 28, 2007The Constituent Assembly, situated in Bolivia’s judicial capital of Sucre, turned 1 year old on Aug. 6, and had agreed on nothing. Street protests and racial slurs directed at delegates closed it down briefly in mid-August,...
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Israel acts to cut off Gazas fuel, electricity
September 28, 2007Two news items related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict last week revealed, each in its own way, the harshness of the Israeli occupation. First, the Israeli Security Cabinet voted unanimously Sept. 19 to declare the Gaza Strip...
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Psychologists equivocate on torture
September 28, 2007I am a psychologist and I’m mad as hell about the recent decision by the American Psychological Association (APA) to continue to let psychologists collaborate with the CIA and the military in their torture of detainees...
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