“Supporting” America
Posted on September 14, 2012 in Images
Oh, the terrible irony: support America, manufacture in China.
No Luck In Love? Blame The Economy
Posted on September 14, 2012 in Articles
The Article: How Job Insecurity Is Messing Up Your Love Life by Lynn Paramore in AlterNet.
The Text: What does love feel like when you don’t know what tomorrow will bring? When life as you imagined it seems further and further out of reach? How do you know when it’s time to hold on to what you’ve got, or let go in the face of mounting anxiety? What if you’re so stressed out you can’t even think?
Trends like restructuring, privatization, mergers, downsizing, and relentlessly high unemployment are transforming intimate relationships. Chronic job insecurity is shifting the way we approach the idea of hooking up, having sex, staying together, and starting families. And it might just be changing the very nature of romance.
One minute you’re happily planning a life together and talking about having kids. Then, suddenly, everything changes.
Bob Your Head To This
Posted on September 13, 2012 in Videos
Smooth, atmospheric and hypnotic, Astronauts, etc.’s track, “You Can Yell” is musical opium.
The GOP’s Illegitimate Children
Posted on September 13, 2012 in Political Cartoons
The sad offspring of the Republican party.
Israel’s Fading Democracy
Posted on September 13, 2012 in Articles
The Article: Israel’s Fading Democracy by Avraham Burg in The New York Times.
The Text: WHEN an American presidential candidate visits Israel and his key message is to encourage us to pursue a misguided war with Iran, declaring it “a solemn duty and a moral imperative” for America to stand with our warmongering prime minister, we know that something profound and basic has changed in the relationship between Israel and the United States.
My generation, born in the ’50s, grew up with the deep, almost religious belief that the two countries shared basic values and principles. Back then, Americans and Israelis talked about democracy, human rights, respect for other nations and human solidarity. It was an age of dreamers and builders who sought to create a new world, one without prejudice, racism or discrimination.
Listening to today’s political discourse, one can’t help but notice the radical change in tone. My children have watched their prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, kowtow to a fundamentalist coalition in Israel. They are convinced that what ties Israel and America today is not a covenant of humanistic values but rather a new set of mutual interests: war, bombs, threats, fear and trauma. How did this happen? Where is that righteous America? Whatever happened to the good old Israel?
