Cheerleaders and silver-liners and ignorami! Oh my!
No… the International Olympic Committee (IOC) wasn’t about to give President Obama his wish of the 2016 Summer Olympics for Chicago despite his charm, great popularity in much of the world, and a very strong rationale that the bid for the Games was part of America’s re-engagement with the international community, after the very inhospitable atmosphere which was created by our last presidential nutcase: George W. Bush.
When beliefs morph into truth, regardless of the realities of time and place, the non-initiated become fodder for those with the zeal and power to enforce their will. Thus the great discoverer of the Americas “fantasized that he had located--- or had come close to—the site of the paradise into which Jehovah had placed Adam and Eve” ( Ned Hopkins, CTA Action, 1992).
TODAY IS the 1196th day in captivity for the soldier Gilad Shalit.
A prisoner of war must not be left in captivity. A wounded soldier must not be left in the field. The state signs an unwritten contract with every person who joins the army, and most definitely with everyone who serves in a combat unit.
In the last two days, I attended two conferences, one in An-Najah National University in Nablus on American Studies in Palestine and one at Al-Quds University on the future of Palestine. The first was an interesting conference that showed there are so many Palestinians in different universities here who were educated in the US and who understand perfectly well how the US system works (sometimes their ideas are deeper and more relevant to US future than American Professors) and what it takes to change US foreign policy. The second conference was rather timely.
Staff at the International Atomic Energy Agency have written a confidential analysis conveying that Iran has "sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable" atom bomb, The New York Times says.
Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip have condemned the decision by the UN to defer voting on the Goldstone report, that highlighted war crimes by Israel and Hamas during the formers' offensive on the territory in December.
Rescue workers are continuing to sift through the rubble of collapsed buildings four days after a powerful earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
At least eight US soldiers and two Afghans have been killed after their combat outposts in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan came under attack, military officials say.
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and ignorami! Oh my! 
Rescue workers are continuing to sift through the rubble of collapsed buildings four days after a powerful earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
