US jazz vocalist and Grammy Award winner Cassandra Wilson pulled the plug on Israel when she cancelled her singing gig at the Women’s Festival in Holon on February 4. The sultry-voiced singer listened to appeals by boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activists encouraging her to respect the Palestinian call for boycott. She joins several other [...]
Archive for February 2012
Cassandra Wilson boycotts Israel
February 27, 2012Jason Kenney, true believer
February 15, 2012He’s at it again, the Darth Vader of Harper’s rabid pro-Israel government has struck again.His latest blatant attack on all things Palestinian is his recent decision to cut all funding for Palestine House’s immigration settlement program. A much praised immigrant settlement program, the Tory bully has now established a cutting record against all things Palestinian. [...]
Nathan Cullen makes sense
February 10, 2012Of all the contestants for the NDP leadership British Columbia BC politician Nathan Cullen stands out as most like the deceased Layton. Cullen resurrects the former leader’s personality.He’s bright, speaks in striking sound bites and has a much needed sense of humour. What frightens the true believers in the party is Cullen’s proposal for cooperation [...]
McCusker and Etta James
February 5, 2012Eucharistein is the Greek word “to give thanks.” That is what Catholic Christians do whenever they gather on Sundays. We break the bread and tell the Story—and give thanks for the omnipresence of God in our lives. At one point in the mass we have prayers of the Faithful, the tribe. The highest form of [...]
“The biggest …. in the universe” Alan Greenspan
February 3, 2012Yes, it’s an ad hominem attack which absolutely delights in the evisceration of one of the biggest con artists in the American pantheon.Here we are talking about the disgraced Alan Greenspan, he of the former Chairmanship of the US federal Reserve..The author is the wickedly funny Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi. One doesn’t know where [...]
