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• • 22 Feb 09
  • 7:54 am

  I'm not quite sure what the author means when he says the "left." Is there a distinct group out there that can be identified who share the same practice of using "hostile rhetorical assaults" to criticize Israel? Is he referring to select individuals who personify "left" leaning positions? I find that in general the "left," if we are to assume that the left consist of people who oppose Israel's military occupation and settlement expansion, want to see a more just solution rather than a biased position favoring those in power, namely Israel and the U.S. The question isn't just whether or …

  Posted to Israel, Gaza and the Left

• • 13 Jun 07
  • 7:07 am

  Abstinence as a government funded program is a total waste of money. It's an ideological and religious-based agenda that has no practical value. The program will increase clandestine masturbations and extra-marital affairs that will go on continuously because religious folk don't believe in getting a divorce. People need to be in touch with their bodies and with each other. Repression and authoritarianism does not teach us that.

  Posted to At What Price Victory?

• • 17 Mar 07
  • 11:37 am

  Before the right wing think tank knuckle heads contaminate this post, I would like to make some important comments about his topic. People tend to confuse sexuality with the body itself. Even the terms homosexuality and bisexuality imply reference to a binary sex dichotomy. You either have sex with a member of the opposite sex, same sex, or both. Sex is an act that offers a plenitude of sexual experiences, irrespective of who you are having sex wtih. The politicization of sexuality is largely in response to the heterosexual norm which places the gendered body at the center of the sexual …

  Posted to Bisexual Healing

• • 01 Dec 06
  • 9:55 am

  Unfortunately, Pelosi and the democrats are weak in many other areas and only support the status quo when they cease to speak out on issues of oppression and state violence, as in the case of Israel's apartheid treatment of the Palestinians. Like the rest of the media, I wonder how repressed Inthesetimes will be in regard to Jimmy Carter's new book. I guess they will respond the same way they reponded to the attack in Lebanon. The repression and silence is truly unbeliveable!

  Posted to The CBC and Speaker Pelosi

• • 21 Sep 06
  • 5:19 pm

  The Politics of Disposability is an appropriate title for the attack on poor people and the powerless. Binary frameworks that are used to distinguish the privileged from the dispossessed, the powerful from the powerless, when used in the service of domination, always manage to reverse the terms. Poor people, for example, who are abandoned by societies institutions are later described as abandoning themselves. In other words, those who have the least resources are expected to take most of the blame. It is also apt to connect this to the larger political realm. The people who are destroyed by the thousands by …

  Posted to Katrina and the Politics of Disposability