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Letters
from
Palestine Fabrizio
Galimberti says: "I have
spent many summers working in a refugee camp (Aida Camp in Bethlehem)
in the
West Bank, and I used to send emails to my children describing my
experience.
These emails slowly acquired a life of their own, mixing chronicles and
reflections, and the heart-rending humiliations inflicted on the
Palestinian
people by Israel’s ruthless occupation of their homeland were brought
into
sharp relief."
PDF
Who
Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think:
Book
Review Essay. A
relatively thin book (135 pages) that covers many issues with
Muslims and how the West deals with them. No, there is no "clash of
civilizations." What most Muslims hate about the US is the failure of
the neoconservative movement to live up to the best ideals of our
forefathers. They hate the fact that the neocons appear to have dragged
the rest of America down into the sewer with them.
The fellows
behind
Media
Matters
write
Free
Ride: John
McCain and the Media, which examines how the media just
loves
John
McCain and how they cover for him at every opportunity. Firedoglake
discussed this book
on
March
29th. McCain had
135
appearances on high-profile talk shows between 1997 and 2006.
One
of his more infamous appearances (But that indicts the media more than
it does McCain) was his
November
12th appearance on Meet the Press. That's right, he appeared
shortly after the
Democratic
sweep of the House & Senate to deliver an
anti-Democratic
message!
Naomi
Klein writes ,
that presents a very
frightening picture of how modern capitalism makes profits off of
disasters. It's a story of privatization
via shock therapy run amuck. Klein's theory is
discussed in
the context of the California
wildfires of late October 2007 and Grover Norquist's
expressed
desire to annihilate government's role in society.
Susan
Faludi writes ,
about how gender
roles were shaped and
twisted and bent to serve political ends. Faludi probably
pays
more attention to what the right wing was saying at the time than most
folks were aware of, which may explain why some consider the book
overheated. Faludi
talks about how the
"cult of the codpiece" was going to
save us all from the "Islamofacist Menace" in the "War On Terror."