For Palestinians, May 14 marks the day many were turned out of their homes

Special to Globe and Mail May 13, 2008 (Keep reading…)

http://www.slate.com/id/2191193/ Monday, May 12, 2008,

It’s somehow absurd and trivial to use the word Israel and the expression 60th birthday in the same sentence or the same breath. (What is this, some candle-bedecked ceremony in Miami?) The questions before us are somewhat more antique, and also a little more pressingly and urgently modern, than that. Has Zionism made Jews more safe or less safe? Has it cured the age-old problem of anti-Semitism or not? Is it part of the tikkun olam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikkun_olam —the mandate for the healing and repair of the human world—or is it another rent and tear in the fabric? (Keep reading…)

Counterpunch May 13, 2008

There is no longer a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Forget the endless arguments about who offered what and who spurned whom and whether the Oslo peace process died when Yasser Arafat walked away from the bargaining table or whether it was Ariel Sharon’s stroll through the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem that did it in. (Keep reading…)

ZNet May 12, 2008

Even for Americans, constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and, if necessary, a little public repentance and forgiveness and a Brand New Start — even for us, the world looks a little Terminal right now. (Keep reading…)

Z-Net. May 13, 2008

AS Israel, going by the Hebrew calendar, marked its independence day last week, there were instances of its national flag being set alight by malcontents for whom the occasion offered cause for indignation rather than celebration. They were not, as one might expect, Arabs bemoaning the transformation of their homeland into an unwanted country six decades ago. Rather, they were ultra-orthodox Jews who consider Zionism incompatible with Judaism. Their protest highlighted one strand in what is a veritable bundle of contradictions. (Keep reading…)

The future of our seas has never been more precarious. Ninety years of industrial-scale overfishing has brought us to the brink of an ecological catastrophe and deprived millions of their livelihoods. As scientific guidelines are ignored and catches become ever bigger, Alex Renton tells why the international community has failed to act (Keep reading…)

12/05/08 “The Guardian” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19913.htm

We are not engaged in a religious conflict with Jews; this is a political struggle to free ourselves from occupation and oppression (Keep reading…)

Financial Post
May 9, 2008

When lawmakers were busy sketching out the details of the North American Free Trade agreement in 1988, Buzz Hargrove, then assistant to Canadian Auto Workers president Bob White, said the union would “fight like hell” against lower U.S. wages and benefits that could creep into Canada. (Keep reading…)

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Wall Street Journal
May 3, 2008; Page

Last December, I got a taste of what golfers are likely to experience, if not quite so starkly, in the years ahead. I played a course in Georgia whose fairways, due to strict drought restrictions across the northern third of the state, hadn’t been watered in months. (Keep reading…)