my new article in al akhbar: مارسي نيومان * في ظلّ تركيز الأنظار على مرشحين رئاسيين أميركيين اثنين، باراك أوباما وجون ماكاين، لا بدّ من التذكير بأنه بالنسبة للمهتمين منا بالسياسة الخارجية، وخصوصاً تلك التي تؤثر على الشرق الأوسط، فإن الخيارات أبعد من «أهون الشرين». ففي خضم أزمة مالية كارثية وخطة إنقاذ حكومية بـ700 مليار دولار، لم [...]
Innocently, two friends of mine who are here with me in Albuquerque this week walked into a shop in old town Albuquerque. They encountered, of all people, Joe the Plumber. Imagine: he’s here in Albuquerque and…get this: he was in the CIA! Here was their conversation (Z and K are my girl friends): White man [...]
So the battle at Boise State University seems to continue. And it is getting worse. It was only a matter of time, but the local rabbi, Dan Fink, has decided to butt into the Cultural Center’s “Tunnel of Oppression,” which I wrote about last week. It’s fascinating that in 5 years of teaching there he [...]
so i arrive at the american studies conference in albuquerque, new mexico a day late due to flight delays, and totally sleep deprived for the same reasons. in all the american airports i had to travel through (albuquerque, dallas, chicago) i saw lots of meaningless obama and mccain objects i imagine americans with cash to [...]
I’ve never used the Zionist airport. Aside from the horror stories I’ve heard from friends, including the confiscating of computers and adding some sort of spyware on them to access your computer, I refuse to go to this airport on occupied land. It is bad enough that they control the borders to Jordan. I also [...]