Total Eclipse

From my livejournal post of last year: 120 years since the Haymarket massacres. 85 years since Sacco and Vanzetti. And nobody has learned a Goddamn thing. Why do journalist’s work for a slave wage? Why do waitor’s work for no wage at all? Why do we still not have an official 8 hour work day? [...]

Tags: politics, holocaust, zionism, israel, palestine, israeli-arab conflict, sociology, wwii Tuesday this week we mark the Israeli Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day. This is the only official day marked by Israeli law dedicated to Holocaust memorial. Of course, Yad Vashem operate all year round, but anyway, this is the official day. Those of you [...]

Tags: grim+meathook+future, future, gmf, israeli-arab conflict, middle east, war I’m writing this post instead of studying for my exam tomorrow. Which is as good an excuse as any. Today in Advanced Social Psychology, we had a guest lecturer; Sociologist Mr. Ahmed Chijazi from Neve Shalom who gave a talk about Interaction of Identity in the [...]

Tags: solar eclipse, total eclipse, photos, astronomy Because I’m bound to get billions of google hits for this stuff, here are some photos of today’s solar eclipse, taken by my bud Tal. We only got a partial eclipse here in Israel, though if you google around a bit, I’m sure you’ll find photos from people [...]

Tags: pax-americana, terrorism, the-long-war, 1984, war-on-terror The Pentagon has revealed plans for a complete overhaul of US military and strategic thinking from the accute and ineffective War on Terror to a more chronic approach eerily titled The Long War. The report identifies four priority areas · Defeating terrorist networks · Defending the homeland in depth [...]