Articles of interest
These are articles by guest speakers of past and/or future Cape Ann Forums. The articles are of interest to the Cape Ann Forum community and are archived on this site so that they can be easily found.
These articles have been published by other media sources. Credit is given to the authors and publishers of the articles.
The Judaization of East Jerusalem
The Salt Lake Tribune
November 25, 2007
With the Golden Dome and the ancient walls of the Old City as backdrop, the cascade of Palestinian homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan is undergoing a dramatic transition. read more »
Whose Road Map?
Jerusalem Post
November 7, 2007
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1192380752506&pagename=JPost%...
Book Contends that Senior Government Officials Should be Held Accountable for Systemic Abuse
NEW YORK, October 23, 2007- The American Civil Liberties Union and Columbia University Press today announce the publication of "Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond." read more »
Too Late for Empire
Repetition
Anyone who wants to write about the constitutional crisis unfolding in the United States today faces a peculiar problem at the outset. There is a large body of observations that at one and the same time have been made too often and yet not often enough--too often because they have been repeated to the point of tedium for a minority ready to listen but not often enough because the general public has yet to consider them seriously enough. The problem for a self-respecting writer is that the act of writing almost in its nature promises something new. Repetition is not really writing but propaganda--not illumination for the mind but a mental beating. Here are some examples of the sort of observations I have in mind, at once over-familiar and unheard: read more »
A Dying Deal in Darfur
Rebel-Held North Darfur: In this eerily depopulated area of war-ravaged Darfur, a woman named Ayesha explained to me why she and a handful of others refused to become refugees. “We fear another attack,” she said, “but we brave the situation and come back to be near our village.” Why, I ask. “Because this is where we belong.” read more »
The Palestinian Catastrophe, Then and Now
Under the pretext of forcing the release of a single soldier "kidnapped by terrorists" (or, if you prefer, "captured by the resistance"), Israel has done the following: seized members of a democratically elected government; bombed its interior ministry, the prime minister's offices, and a school; threatened another sovereign state (Syria) with a menacing overflight; dropped leaflets from the air, warning of harm to the civilian population read more »