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• • 12 Oct 09
  • 11:02 pm

  Good article by Noam Chomsky. I'm gratified and VERY surprised that the New York Times news service is circulating an article by Chomsky, who has been banned from the pages of the New York Review of Books since the late 1970's. (In the late 1960's and early 1970's Chomsky wrote some of the most famous articles in the NYR of B, but then the political tides shifted.)

  Posted to Barack Obama and the 'Unipolar Moment'

• • 05 Oct 09
  • 12:13 am

  For years, James Randi has sponsored a prize of one million dollars for anyone who can prove that psychic phenomena are real. George Kenney might have asked Stacy Horn, "why don't you go and get the $1M prize?" The only conditions that Randi places are reasonable ones: scientific controls to avoid cheating. Nobody has collected the $1M prize. Several alleged psychics have tried, and been embarrassed when they failed. It's not that scientists are closed-minded. It's that the advocates of parapsychology have no convincing proof that parapsychology is even a real fie.d, even after a century or two of claims and …

  Posted to The Frontier of Consciousness

• • 14 Sep 09
  • 12:34 am

  An excellent article by David Simon. He mentions the decline of labor reporting in modern journalism. At the end of the Second World War, US newspapers employed a thousand labor journalists. Now there are hardly any at all. This is a loss, even though the newspapers that once employed 1000 labor journalists were often strongly anti-labor.

  Posted to Death of the Newspaperman

• • 07 Mar 09
  • 4:26 pm

  My pay has not yet been cut, but it will be within months.

  Posted to The U.S. unemployment rate is now 8.1% – 3.2% higher than when the recession began in Dec. 200

• • 23 Feb 09
  • 2:04 am

  Ken Brociner takes it to be a "fact that the current Israeli government has demonstrated a clear desire to reach a two-state settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." He offers no argument in support of this alleged "fact". It is not a fact. One Israeli government after another - Labor, Likud, or Kadima - has acted to stop a viable Palestinian state. Israel's policy used to be openly based on "The Three No's: No to a Palestinian State, No to a return to the 1967 borders, and No to negotiations with the PLO". Nowadays, they sometimes give verbal assent to a Palestinian …

  Posted to Israel, Gaza and the Left