((( (( (ï¿¥) )) ))) profile picture

((( (( (ï¿¥) )) )))

About Me



My Interests

I'd like to meet:



My Blog

just sitting here, reminiscing

Break Time in Bet Awa 23/10/04by BigRed The bell rings at 11am and the children run outside to the playground. Their teachers stand guard at the gates of the school and along the walls, armed with w...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:22:00 GMT

a face, a name and a story

many years ago i saw vivian speak. i listened in silence and in shame to her tale of nightmare and horror; of a day where she lost her entire family at the hands of the US army. i kept this moment in ...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:48:00 GMT

2004 ---> 2007

the headline reads Palestinian Farmer killed in Tulkarem. could it have only been three short years ago that it was me standing in Saida town center writing a report about an israeli army botched assa...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:23:00 GMT

March 11, 2007

In the war of words, The LA Times is Israel's allyThe paper consistently adopts Israel's language, giving credence to an inaccurate, simplistic and dangerous cliche.By SAREE MAKDISI, a professor of En...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:48:00 GMT

"I Don't Think We Westerners Care About Muslims" - Robert Fisk Delivers Keynote Address at MPAC

listen at: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/20/1443230& mode=thread&tid=25------------------------------------------ ---------- ROBERT FISK: Ladies and gentlemen, when I first went ...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:44:00 GMT

Gazan perspective

Laila El-Haddad is a Palestinian journalist who divides her timebetween Gaza and Durham, N.C. She was in Gaza City this December whenviolence broke out between the two factions. Dick talks with Lailaa...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:45:00 GMT

jan 10: snow update

theres something special about living in "snow country". being from southern california, ive always had to drive many long hours to get to the snow... something which i hardly enjoyed. needless to say...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:21:00 GMT

big brother is alive and well

i removed the last name to "protect" this persons ID, but if you want more info let me know.------------------------------------------------Jim ------- wrote:>> I have been in the Inglewood jail s...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:37:00 GMT

first of many?

welcome to my japan vacation weblog. this new years season my friend jeff and his wife mizue visited me and we headed out to zenkoji temple in nagano city. after they left i ran off to tokyo to sleep ...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:19:00 GMT

Silencing Saddam by Robert Scheer

Silencing Saddam> by Robert Scheer>It is a very frightening precedent that the United States can invade a country on false pretenses, depose its leader and summarily execute him without an internation...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 05:05:00 GMT