As many caring Jews around the world this week, my heart has been wrenched by what Israel is doing to the people of Gaza. But, also like many, I feel helpless to stop the oppression, the and bombing and, of course, the settlements
In 1975 the United Nations gave official recognition to International Women’s Day, March 8, which, like International Workers’ Day (May 1) has…
F or most nonscientists, the word biochemical causes our brains to shut down and skip over whatever scientific “gobbledygook” follows. Combined, however,…
We are unfortunately now too familiar with the extrajudicial practice of ‘rendition’ by which the United States, acting through the CIA and…
For many people in the US say “NAM” and they automatically think Vietnam, the war the US lost through heroic battles by…
What’s in a name? The assumption of the cachet Reporters Without Borders twenty years ago, in conscious parody of the then above…
T here is a shift in the prevailing winds coming from the South, above all in South America and the Caribbean. The…
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