January 2009
9 posts
Obama's First Inteview as President, with... →
In his first interview as President, Obama declares, to the Arab world, an end to the Bush’s policy of using the language of “war” when dealing with terrorism.
Sunday Song: Buika’s “Volver...
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The Negro National Anthem
Did you hear the sort of haunting start of Rev. Lowry’s benediction: “God of our weary years / God of our silent tears…” It came from this, and I had no idea:
Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the...
now this is just cool! http://www.smarthistory.org/
al jazeera encouraged by Obama →
Al Jazeera seeing the start of something positive in Obama’s typically tempered comments.
thoughts on israel and history
just had the feeling of figuring something out:
the irony that europe after collapsing in a paroxysm of nationalism and hatred of the semetic other has become the greatest proponent of international human rights and humanitarian law is matched only by the irony that israel seems to have become an ethnic and nationalist military state with genocidal tendencies. this is sad in the way so many...