1. IF Stone: An Iconic Radical Journalist
(Newsletter)

...who might be anti-Semetic, right away, to avoid anti-Semitism in his work." Most people called him Izzy, and when he died in 1989, biographer DD Guttenplan said "he had (so) transformed (him...

2. IF Stone: An Iconic Radical Journalist
(Opinions/Society)

...who might be anti-Semetic, right away, to avoid anti-Semitism in his work." Most people called him Izzy, and when he died in 1989, biographer DD Guttenplan said "he had (so) transformed (him...

3. Oslo's Calling
(Opinions/Humor)

...rn over the Nobel Committee’s credibility. Certain talk show hosts have worked themselves into such a tizzy I wouldn’t be surprised to see one of them pull a Kanye West, and crash the stage during th...

4. American Planning for a Hundred Holocausts
(Opinions/Daily)

...t in World War II, a hundred times the scale of the Holocaust? That aimed-for accomplishment exposed a dizzying irrationality, madness, insanity, at the heart and soul of our nuclear planning and appa...

5. Pulling Granny's Plug
(Opinions/Humor)

...y’re intimate with the failures of public education. The programs that are the focus of everyone’s tizzyment, are end of life consultations. Known variously as palliative care, and: “They’re pulli...

6. Housing Crisis Pushing Up Numbers of U.S. Homeless
(Opinions/Society)

...t; Bethlehem is no isolated example. As Patrick Markee of the Coalition for the Homeless and reporter Lizzy Ratner write in the February 9 The Nation magazine, "Long before subprime mortgages, c...

7. Ruth Marcus Supports Torture
(Opinions/Politic)

...tant because of his power, not less important. This stunning assertion by Marcus almost knocks one too dizzy to notice what she slips in during the same breath. She favors prosecution for lying to inv...

8. Free speech not safe from attack by Canadian media corporation
(Opinions/op-ed)

...P (strategic lawsuit against public participation). This case is relatively simple: CanWest’s founder, Izzy Asper, was a vocal supporter of Israel, (he’s been quoted as telling the Jerusalem Post, “I...

9. Canwest: Media Bully
(Editor/Daily)

...pporting the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. In fact, the media giant’s founder, Izzy Asper, boasted that “In all of our newspapers… we have a very pro-Israeli position…we are t...

10. Thus Spoke Olmert
(Opinions/Features)

... gave up the idea almost immediately. Throughout his term of office he invented grandiose schemes at a dizzying rate, with each of them doing little more than providing fuel to his spin-machine. His i...