Banska Bystrica Traveling across Slovakia and listening to my guide, I recalled the contradictions of Bob Dylan’s song, “I pity the poor immigrant,” where he is both sympathetic to the plight of immigrants and suspicious of them. I pity the poor immigrant Whose strength is spent in vain Whose heaven is like …
Tag: Middle East
Drone Debate, Killing “Clean,” Volunteer Army, and National Service
New Orleans Stick with me on this, brothers and sisters, because I swear there is a ironclad connection welding all of these pieces together: drones, the draft, and national service or killing “clean,” the volunteer army, and social equality, if you prefer. Suddenly, there is a bit of kerfuffle about our unmanned, million dollar drone …
Every Friday in Bil’in is Demo Time for Iyad Burnat and the Gang on the West Bank
Atlanta Fred Brooks, an old comrade, and now professor at Georgia State, asked if I would be interested in hearing a visiting speaker, Iyad Burnat, who was a Palestinian organizer of nonviolent protests on the ever controversial West Bank and happened to be giving a talk at Kennesaw State at the international conflict resolution center up …