Dear Isabel (Letter/4)
Tuesday 23 June 2015 Dear Isabel Page 4, line 3 Have you, with all your white privilege, ever led the space of non-whites? Did you simply choose journalism because it made you feel special and…
Category: Journalists
Dear Isabel (Letter/3)
Monday 22 June 2015 Dear Isbaelita Page 3 This page inspires me to offer you the following writing topics to add to your comprehensive list, unless you’ve already exhausted each of them by writing at…
A Journalist/4
I regularly prowled the arms bazaars of the Middle East, seeking an answer to the same old questions. Who are the men who produce this vile equipment? How can they justify their trade? How will…
A Journalist/3
When this conscience wakes And speaks out in thunder tones as it must It will need facts to use as a weapon Against injustice, barbarism and wrong It is for this reason that I carefully…
Journalist/2
1. That is precisely what I have been trying to elicit all these years: Outrage, outrage, and offense at what Israel is making a million and a half immiserated people Living in the Strip endure….
The Way It Looked in 2010
When we define the struggle against foreign rule as nonviolent or violent, it’s as if we have asked the occupied to prove their resistance is kosher (or not). And to whom? The very foreign rulers…
¡Presente!
I received this email today from Marty King… I have pulled out my precious copy of The Struggle Is One, a present from Mev, inscribed to us. I cannot put it down, and am reminded…
A Journalist/1
1. The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. –Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 2. She had first traveled to Vietnam in 1955, glad to see that…
Book Recommendation: Gideon Levy
I highly recommend Gideon Levy’s new book, The Punishment of Gaza. Reading it reminded me of something Noam Chomsky wrote in 1996: “Those who came to be honored much later as the Prophets received rather different…
The Mere Gook and Haji Rule
Under reviewDeborah Nelson, The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about U.S. War Crimes—Inside the Army’s Secret Archive of Investigations (New York: Basic Books, 2008) and Chris Hedges and Laila al-Arian, Collateral Damage:…