Posted in Uncategorized, tagged afghanistan, obama, schiel, teeksa, violence, war on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
President Obama at West Point, Courtesy Getty Images
Photo by AP/Charles Dharapak
There are those who suggest Afghanistan is another Vietnam. They argue that it cannot be stabilized and we’re better off cutting our losses and rapidly withdrawing. I believe this argument depends on a false reading of history.
—President Obama, at West Point outlining his Afghanistan decision
I [...]
Posted in Love, Palestine & Israel, Uncategorized, tagged america, apache, bomb, children, f16, family, gaza, hamas, israel, massacre, palestine, rocket, schiel, suffering, teeksa on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Amani Alfarra is from Gaza, currently studying for her PhD in hydrology in Germany. We met in May 2006, in Gaza, while she was writing a report for the United Nations about the water situation in Gaza. She needed photos so I toured the entire region with her. I’ve slightly edited her writing.
Jan 16, 2009 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bill moyers, boggs, grace lee boggs, interview, martin luther king, moyers, politics, schiel, teeksa on September 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To try my hand at answering some of Bill Moyer’s questions to Grace Lee Boggs (she did an excellent job in her interview on the Bill Moyers Journal, August 31, 2007):
Could Martin Luther King Jr have been more radical?
He departed from organizing the Poor People’s Campaign to support the Memphis sanitation workers, an act of [...]
