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Anti-semitism, British Academia and the Israel Lobby
Joe Quinn
Sott.net Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:04 EDT
Every year since 2002 the University and College Union (UCU), the largest trade union and professional association for academics working in further and higher education throughout the UK, has attempted to implement some form of boycott of Israeli academic institutions that have been shown to be complicit in the ongoing persecution of the Palestinian people. And each year, amid much acrimony and cries of "anti-semitism", boycotters meet with significant resistance from pro-Israeli members of British academia, and other institutions. This year however, lowly Sott.net has inadvertently become involved in the melee. |
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Signs Economic Commentary for 25 August 2008
Donald Hunt
SOTT.net Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:15 EDT
Movements in the price of gold have been hard to explain lately. Some of that is due to gold's dual role as both a commodity and a currency. There also seems to be a divergence between real gold and paper gold lately. As gold prices dipped below $800 an ounce, it suddenly became hard to find real gold coins at near that price. So what exactly is going on here? |
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Signs Economic Commentary for 18 August 2008
Donald Hunt
SOTT.net Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:22 EDT Summary: The fall of gold accelerated last week with gold falling 9% against the dollar last week and 16% over the past two week. Commodities in general have been falling. We seem to be seeing the bursting of the commodities bubble due to the view that the world economy has not yet "decoupled" from the United States. No doubt the easing of commodity inflation and the increase in industrial production in the U.S. is good news. The problem is that the root cause of the recent distress, the collapse of the housing market, shows no sign of letting up. |
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Biden's Tongue of Flame: A Speech Presaging Endless War
Chris Floyd
Empire Burlesque Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:42 EDT
As we noted here yesterday, Arthur Silber has written a powerful and profound series of articles on the Joe Biden VP nomination, and its deeper implications. He has now followed these up with a piece on Biden's disturbing -- not to say blood-curdling -- acceptance speech on Wednesday night. You should read Silber's latest piece in full, but I wanted to add a few comments of my own. Joe Biden's acceptance speech was indeed a remarkable performance -- bellicose and delusional and deceitful by turns. If you closed your eyes, there were moments when you would have thought that you were back in the Cow Palace in 1964, listening to Barry Goldwater belching fire and threatening doom for all those who challenge America's uniquely exceptional special unquestionable morally superior dominance of the world. Arthur Silber points us to some of the money shots in Biden's speech. And the porn allusion is entirely appropriate in this case. The speech, like the whole evening -- which was given over to the glorification of war and the triumphant militarization of American society -- was a lurid example of the pornography of power. |
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The Delusion Revolution: on the road to extinction and in denial
Robert Jensen
Alternet Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:25 EDT
"The old future's gone," John Gorka sings. "We can't get to there from here." That insight from Gorka, one of my favorite singer/songwriters chronicling the complexity of our times, deserves serious reflection. Tonight I want to argue that the way in which we humans have long imagined the future must be rethought, as the scope and depth of the cascading crises we face become painfully clearer day by day. Put simply: We're in trouble, on all fronts, and the trouble is wider and deeper than most of us have been willing to acknowledge. We should struggle to build a road on which we can walk through those troubles -- if such a road is possible -- but I doubt it's going to look like any path we had previously envisioned, nor is it likely to lead anywhere close to where most of us thought we were going. |
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'Don't let the door hit you in your sorry ass on your way out!': Americans bid 'farewell' to the worst US 'President' ever!!
Len Hart
Existentialist Cowboy Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:24 EDT
The blog, Farewell 43, gives Americans a chance to bid George W. Bush 'farewell'. I think they really mean: GOOD RIDDANCE! Visit them and post your own 'good riddance' message. Let the very worst frickin' "President" in American history know what you really think. Following is the text of my 'good riddance' message. Post your own on their site. Here's a link to my comment on Farewell43! See also: Oh, Blessed Day! |
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