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We Condemn Unequivocally Palestinians Murering Four Israeli Civilian in Hebron Area on August 31
Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 05:58 PM
Tags: Israel Palestine terrorism terror Hebron B'tselem OccupiedTerritories Palestinians nonviolence Occupation Hamas Tikkun NSP NEtworkofSpiritualProgressives peace MiddleEastPeace RabbiMIchaelLernerWe fully agree with B'tselem in condemning anti-settler violence. No matter how outrageous and murderous some of the settlers, particularly in the Hebron region, have been, random killings of civilians is always deplorable terrorism. --Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor Tikkun www.tikkun.org and Chair, The Network of Spiritual Progressives www.spiritualprogressives.org
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America's Empire and Endless Wars Are Destroying the World, and Ruining Our Great Country | | AlterNet
Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 05:58 AM
Tags: Washington Military militarism Empire police militaryaction Iran Afghanistan Vietnam Soviet foreignpolicy Pentagon Obama DC Power exceptionalismObama continues the militarist traditions of Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II--and in so doing, serves the interests of those who wish to destroy what the extremist elements of Islam believe to be "the evil Empire" (namely, us!).
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Like a pillar of fire - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Monday, September 6, 2010, 08:31 AM
Tags:Uri Avnery has written frequently for Tikkun. He is a great interpreter of the current realities and injustices in Israeli society. He deserves our respect and deep thanks!
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Poll: Half of Israeli teens don't want Arab students in their class - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Monday, September 6, 2010, 08:16 AM
Tags: Israel Racism Arabs ArabIsraelis Palestinians IsraeliTeens IsraeliRacism EducationNot a good sign for Israel's future! So mu;ch for those who believe that a good education solves racism.
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PsySR: Statement on Gaza Siege
Sunday, September 5, 2010, 08:15 AM
Tags: Psychology psychologists psychotherapy SocialResponsibility SocialJustice Israel Palestine Gaza humanrights HumanitarianAn excellent organization takes an excellent public stand.--Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun www.tikkun.org (and ph.d. in psychology)
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Rabbis can apparently say whatever they want - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Friday, September 3, 2010, 03:46 PM
Tags: Israel Religious Religion ReligiousZionism Peres Rabin OvadiaYosef RabbisOnce Shimon Peres allowed the killing of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to be followed by an official call for "unity" of the Jewish people, including unity with the very forces in the settler world and the religious Zionist world that had been inciting his murder, all constraints on the Right were gone both psychically and legally (that is, laws were still in place, but not enforced). Many in the Diaspora are just as bigoted, but keep their mouths shut.--Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun www.tikkun.org
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Fascism is already here - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Friday, September 3, 2010, 04:23 AM
Tags:Yossi Sarid was the leader of the Meretz Party. His rhetoric is more than a little inflated, but he gives you a feel for what mainstream leftists in Israel are feeling.
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The Day - A cure for the disease of Islamophobia | News from southeastern Connecticut
Thursday, September 2, 2010, 03:54 AM
Tags: Muslims Islam Islamophobia hate GroundZeroThere is so much goodness in American Muslims that is unknown to other Americans because they never have met a Muslim and associate Muslims with 9/11. Here is a cure that can be replicated in many places in the U.S. --Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun
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William Blum :: Anti-Empire Report, Number 85
Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 08:47 PM
Tags: Cuba AmericanImperialism Iraq Afghanistan AfghanistanWar US Military GroundZero PanAm103 Libya Muslims IslamicCenter MosqueFor a different take on Cuba, please read Philip Wolfson's article in the Sept/Oct issue of Tikkun Magazine
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--Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun www.tikkun.org
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Muslim female slavery and porn in Baghdad
Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 12:07 PM
Tags:Look at Iraq as America withdraws to see how much women's lives have improved. In that light, consider the phony claim that American presence there will save the women of Afghanistan. --Rabbi Michael Lerner
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David Katz, M.D.: Overpopulation: 9 Billion Things to Talk About
Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 11:57 AM
Tags: Overpopulation births pregnancies poverty hunger globalmarshallplan environment earth spiritual sacredactivism TikkunKatz identifies a very serious problem, but illustrates unknowingly the mistaken strategy of progressives on this issue--namely, blaming the public for the problem. Does he not notice that population declines as average wealth and social benefits increase? Want to stop overpopulation? Try the Network of Spiritual Progressives' Global Marshall Plan www.spiritualprogressives.org/gmp
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rather than thinking you can convince poor people to abandon the only plan they have for retirement--kids to support them..
---Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun
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Michael Brenner: Palestine and Washington's Alchemy
Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 11:48 AM
Tags: Obama Netanyahu Israel Palestine Indyk peace MiddleEastPeace Judaism ArabsWhat Brenner misses in this argument is the degree of desperation among Palestinians that might make those on the West Bank accept any deal that required Israel to permanently stay out of their cities, provided unimpeded transport between the cities, and removed all check-points--something that is a realistic possible outcome. Such an agreement, were it entered into by the Palestinian Authority, would be seen as a betrayal not only by Hamas but also by many of the small farmers who populate the West Bank countryside and whose lands have been stolen by the settlers, and by almost all of the Palestinians living in refugee camps around the Arab world. Such an agreement, accepted by virtue of Palestinian powerlessness, would likely lead to civil war in Palestine, and eventually to a break down in this agreement. But in the short run, it might boost Obama's and Netanyahu's political standing in their respective countries --Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun
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Robert Scheer: Two Wars Don?t Make a Right - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig
Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 08:49 AM
Tags: Iraq Afghanistan IraqWar AfghanistanWar ObamaWhile Scheer correctly nails Obama's failures, he, like so many others on the Left, really has no positive vision of what we should be for. Ever hear Scheer endorse the Global Marshall Plan or a strategy of generosity? Nope. Unfortunantely, he is great on the negative by very very very weak on the positive vision side.
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What Created the Populist Explosion and How Democrats Can Avoid the Shrapnel in November | | AlterNet
Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 08:42 AM
Tags: Obama PopulistRevolt Populist Populism Beck GlennBeck TeaParty economy Democrats 2010Election polls NovemberElections Jobs WallStreet RepublicansWe in Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives have been making these points for the past two years. We even bought a full page ad in the Washington Post's "100 days" special supplement to make sure Obama heard them as early as May 2009. But Obama is so subordinated to Wall Street and the military industrial complex that getting his ear will accomplish little. That's why we ordinary folk have to create as powerful a populist movement from the Left as the proto-fascists are doing on the Right. --Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, TIKKUN www.Tikkun.org www.spiritualprogressives.org
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Distorted Zionism - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 08:19 AM
Tags: Israel Zionism Zionist Left ImTirztu postZionism post-Zionism Haredim TikkunMany in the Left use the term "Zionism" to mean the most extreme reactionary versions that have control of the Israeli government. But Zionism has always been a wide movement encompassing many differing political tendencies, including those who seek peace and justice for Palestinians. Now that same struggle is taking place in Israel, with the Right there agreeing with the Left here--there is only one form of Zionism, they say, namely their fascistic variant of it.--Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun www.tikkun.org
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Encountering Peace: The indefatigable peacemaker?s advice
Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 06:53 AM
Tags: Israel Palestine MiddleEastPeace Tikkun Peace PesceProcessSome sage advice for both sides as they meet in Washington D.C.
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10 Needed Steps for Obama to Start Dismantling America's Gigantic, Destructive Military Empire | | AlterNet
Thursday, August 26, 2010, 07:54 AM
Tags: US military empire militarism war army Obama budget deficit domestic politics PentagonThis is yet another powerful argument for a Global Marshall Plan--I wish someone could get that message to Chalmers Johnson. We need engagement in the world--but engagement through generosity, not domination.--Rabbi Michael Lerner rabbilerner@tikkun.org www.tikkun.org
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Mass Assassinations Lie at the Heart of America's Military Strategy in the Muslim World | | AlterNet
Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 10:21 AM
Tags: Assassination drones military strategy Muslims Muslimworld Islam Afghanistan USmilitary US CIA security war USwars homelandsecurityn. Now the US has adopted and expanded the Israeli approach of "targetted assasinations, with likely consequence not only of making us less safe, but of eventually undermining in the US the idea that people have a right to a trial before being condemned to death or punishment. --Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun www.tikkun.org
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Afghan Women Have Already Been Abandoned | The Nation
Monday, August 23, 2010, 03:16 PM
Tags: Afghan Afghanistan US USforeignpolicy war defensedept budget women feminist feminism wars peaceNo military solution will work. The only way to undercut fundamentalism is to build a world in which people feel safe and loved.
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U.S. Occupation of Iraq More Than Doubles Poverty, Sickness -- Leaves Country a Total Disaster | | AlterNet
Monday, August 23, 2010, 08:47 AM
Tags: Iraq Poverty U.S. AmericanPolitics UN IraqWar unemploymentAmericans should create a day of Atonement for all the damage we've done in Iraq, and in other wars around the world. Peace movements should pick one day for atonement--and all Americans should be asked to fast at least part of the day and to gather together in mourning and repentance for all that we've done. If Jews can do this once a year, why shouldn't non-Jews be able to do the same thing?--Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun www.tikkun.org
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Does Today's Liberated, Chaotic Family Work Better Than the 1950s Model? | | Psychotherapy Networker
Thursday, August 19, 2010, 07:08 AM
Tags: Family familytherapy familydynamics psychotheraspy Americanculture boomers post-boomer Tikkun childhood rebellion respectA valuable and complicated analysis of family dynamics today, yet missing something that is frequently absent in the framework of psychotherapy: an understanding of how economic insecurity, class structure, and the global ethos of materialism and selfishness that are lionized in the media and rewarded in the world of work, plus the insecurity resulting from decreasing external social supports like adequate health care and social security and unemployment insurance, factor into the daily consciousness and options facing today's families.--Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun Magazine www.tikkun.org
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PTSD, infertility and other consequences of war | San Francisco Bay View
Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 10:09 PM
Tags: war US warcrimes humanrights PTSD FleetWeek Pentagon DU depletedunanium uranium weapons Tikkun NSPWar crimes impact on us at home as well--not just rhetoically, but physically as well.
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Lotus Eaters | openDemocracy
Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 08:11 AM
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Progressives Need to Fight the Corpo-Obama-Geithner-Petraeus State | | AlterNet/Nation
Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 07:04 AM
Tags: corporations government Obama Ehrenreich Geithner Petraseus liberals progressives TEAParty NYTimesEhrenreich raises an important issue, but is rather vague on solutions. People fought to create democratic government as a way to counter other powers, and today it remains the only vehicle for restricting corporate power. So the point is not to abandon it, but reclaim it from below. To do that, we need a vision, and that's precisely what is embodied in the Network of Spiritual Progressives' campaign for the Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the US Constitution, our campaign for a Global Marshall Plan, and our Spiritual Covenant with America, all of which you can read at www.spiritualprogressives.org
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Noam Chomsky: The Real Reasons the U.S. Enables Israeli Crimes and Atrocities | | AlterNet
Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 07:02 AM
Tags: Israel Chomsky Palestne ForeignPolicy USforeignpolicy Military Militaryindustrial Palestine Palestinians IsraelLobby ChristianZionists Zionists TikkunIt's not the Israel Lobby that is decisive, argues Chomsky, it's the commitment of the US to dominate the region and the willingness of Israel to play a supportive role in that process that is why the Wall Steet Journal, the Republican Party, and the American military industrial complex all line up in support of Israel and it's Occupation.
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Robert Reich: The Continuing Economic Crisis-- Forget a Double-Dip, We're Still in One Long Big Dipper
Monday, August 16, 2010, 10:11 AM
Tags: Democrats Republicans Unemployment Economics EconomicCrisis EconomicGrowth Marketplace CapitalismIt's not unfair to blame Obama for our situation, though it was caused by the policies of Wall Street, the large corporations, and the "let the market rule" policies of the Republicans, Obama appointed economic advisors who shared the same worldview rather than people like Reich and Krugman and Stiglitz (see the Stiglitz interview in the coming Sept/Oct issue of Tikkun magazine). And the Democrats keep on capitulating to the logic of the Republicans--hence no massive New Deal type programs to help the unemployed, the homeless, those who can't afford their mortgages, etc.--Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun
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8 Reasons Leftists should be Pro-Israel
Sunday, August 15, 2010, 12:20 PM
Tags: Israel Palestine MiddleEastPeace Tikkun Left Leftists Progressives ProgressiveMiddlePath CriticizingIsraelIt's important for those of us who believe Israel's policies to be immoral and self-destructive to listen carefully and respectfully to those who disagree with us, consider their arguments, and be open to changing our minds on any part of our critique that is unfair or misguided. At the same time, we have come to feel a deep commitment to the welfare of both the Israeli and Palestinian people, and will not let the charge of "demonization" prevent us from pursuing a peace that provides justice to the millions of Palestinians and Israelis who are suffering because of the current policies of the Israeli government.
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GM Pollutes On Our Dime While Community Banks Die On The Vine
Sunday, August 15, 2010, 07:07 AM
Tags: Obama Administration GM communitybanks banks economyWhy does this no longer surprise us in the Obama years?
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OpEdNews - Article: America's Biggest Jobs Program -- the U.S. Military
Sunday, August 15, 2010, 07:05 AM
Tags: Jobs Military Politics Tikkun AmericanPolitics USArmyObscene but true that Americans will support a military jobs program but not a civilian jobs program.
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A soldier's word - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Thursday, August 12, 2010, 08:07 PM
Tags: Israel Occupation Palesitne Palestinians IDF AmiraHass Tikkun West Bank TheOccupationThe hateful and hate generating reality of Israel's Occupation of the West Bank.
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The US isn't leaving Iraq, it's rebranding the occupation | Seumas Milne | Comment is free | The Guardian
Thursday, August 5, 2010, 07:59 AM
Tags: Iraq USempire USforeignpolicy Obama USwars USTroops USwithdrawalfromIraq imperialism Tikkun propagandaIf we had 50,000 Chinese troops in the US, would we feel happy if the Chinese announced that they were only advisors to a government that they had installed with their army after an election which disqualified all parties that had supported the previous pre-Chinese-invasion government? ==Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun, www.tikkun.org
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Shame on the ADL for Opposing the Mosque Two Blocks from Ground Zero
Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 06:55 AM
Tags: CordobaHouse ADL NY Mosque GroundZero Tikkun Muslims Islam Jews Tolerance Peace Justice MoslemWhile Rabbi Lerner calls for an interfaith center at Ground Zero, he champions the right of Muslims to build a mosque/community-center two blocks away separated from Ground Zero by many other buildings, and calls for his fellow Jews and fellow Americans to distinguish between terrorists and the vast majority of peace-loving moderate Muslims in the U.S.
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t r u t h o u t | A Long Stay
Sunday, August 1, 2010, 10:59 AM
Tags: Tikkun TikkunMagazine immigrants immigration crime detentioncenters policy publicpolicy Obama Latinos chicanosQuite apart from our criminal injustice system we have the craziness of "detention centers" for immigrants--with 300,000 human beings incarcerated. Keep that in mind the next time someone talks to you about the land of the free.
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NEUMAIER: The crisis in capitalism - The Daily Freeman Opinion: Serving the Hudson Valley since 1871(DailyFreeman.com)
Sunday, August 1, 2010, 08:03 AM
Tags: capitalism economics NewDeal GreatDepression job reform Democrats Obama media propaganda TikkunPatriotism is the right word for a fierce attachment to one's own country. What is the right word for a similarly intense attachment to an economic system that meanwhile is oppressive to the very people who champion it?--Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun Magazine www.tikkun.org
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The Real Aim of Israel?s Bomb Iran Campaign | The Seminal
Sunday, August 1, 2010, 07:45 AM
Tags: Iran Israel USwars militarism USempire Obama media Netanyahu USforeignpolicyWhen reading news stories about Iran, always ask yourself the following question: Is the reason this story is appearing, while stories about the oppression of three million prisoners in U.S. prisons are rare indeed and U.S. global empire and militarism are even rarer, is that this journalist or this journal or magazine wants to prepare the readers for a U.S. war with Iran?--Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun Magazine www.tikkun.org
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Despite WikiLeaks Revelations, Congress Votes for War Funding | The Nation
Saturday, July 31, 2010, 11:10 PM
Tags: War Afghanistan Democrats PeaceMovement AntiWarMovement TomHayden Tikkun AfghanistanWar NancyPelosi Pelosi ObamaShame on those Congressional Democrats who Continue to Empower the War Makers
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We shall be as dreamers - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Friday, July 30, 2010, 06:41 AM
Tags: WestBank Israel Palestine Netanyahu YossiSarid Israelis Palestinians Peace PeaceNegotiations MiddleEastPeaceIsrael's former Member of Knesset Yossi Sarid shows that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is doing everything possible to play a double game--claiming to be ready to negotiate with Palestinians while simultaneously avoiding everything that would indicate a genuine desire to reach a settlement agreement. De facto, Israel is choosing to hold on to the West Bank even at the expense of having a peace agreement with Palestinians.--Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun Magazine www.tikkun.org
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Michael Pollan: The Mighty Rise of the Food Revolution | | AlterNet
Thursday, July 29, 2010, 05:50 AM
Tags: food foodrevolution agriculture air water environment Tikkun tikkunolamIt is harder and harder for people who are not rich to be able to find food that is not poisoned by the agricultural conglomerates and/or the oil and gas industry that poison our air and other industries that poison our waters. Michael Pollan gives us the big picture of what can happen to transform this reality.==Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun www.tikkun.org
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Votes on continuing the war in Afghanistan
Thursday, July 29, 2010, 05:46 AM
Tags:The nay votes are the Honor Roll of Members of Congress who said NO to the continued funding for the war in Afghanistan. We at Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives believe that the war is the wrong way to fight terrorism. The path to Homeland Security is through a Global Marshall Plan to end global poverty, homelessness, hunger, inadequate education and inadequate health care and to repair the global environment--www.spiritualprogressives.org/GMP. --Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun magazine www.tikkun.org
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Harold Meyerson - The job machine grinds to a halt
Thursday, July 29, 2010, 05:23 AM
Tags:The failure of the Obama Administration to provide an alternative vision to that of global capitalism with its ethos of selfishness and materialism, combined with the loss of jobs for middle income working people, provides the foundation for an American fascism within the next 5-10 years. There is much reason to be deeply concerned. --Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun Magazine www.tikkun.org
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Labor Takes on the Money Power of Hotel Chains Across 15 Cities | | AlterNet
Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 08:11 AM
Tags: Hyatt HyattHotels unions Tikkun Labor Laborunions workers strikesMany of us have stayed at a Hyatt hotel, oblivious to the difficult working conditions facing its employees. When people living close to the margins with families to support go on strike, it's not because they frivolously have nothing better to do--it's out of real desperation. -Rabbi Michael Lerner Editor, Tikkun Magazine www.tikkun.org
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OpEdNews - Article: WHITHER OBAMA'S ECONOMIC AGENDA: CAN IT SAVE US?
Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 09:15 AM
Tags: Obama economics economiccrisis unemployment Democrats Obama'seconomicagenda Tikkun Americanpolitics politicsIt is astounding how we allow the media and our politicians in both parties to distract us from the cold hard facts of our current and continuing economic meltdown.--Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun Magazine www.tikkun.org
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"Fracking" Poisons Your Drinking Water: Stand Up to the Oil Giants and Help Stop the Catastrophe | | AlterNet
Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 08:06 AM
Tags: Tikkun tikkunolam environment ecology oil gas water drinkingwater environmentalism publicpolicyWouldn't it be nice if the gas and oil companies didn't shape our domestic and foreign policy and prevent any serious environmental changes?--Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun Magazine www.tikkun.org
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14 Shocking Facts That Prove the Criminal Justice System Is Racist | | AlterNet
Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 08:01 AM
Tags: Tikkun criminaljustice prisons lawenforcement racism justice AfricanAmericans Chicanos LatinosThe distortions in our "criminal justice system" are so deep that only a total transformation would solve them.--Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun www.tikkun.org
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A new party of good tidings - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Friday, July 23, 2010, 07:21 AM
Tags: Israel Palestine Occuaption EqualityinIsrael CivilRightsinIsrael Peace Israel/Palestine TikkunMagazine tikkunolamAvrum Burg remains one of the most creative and courageous of Israeli politicians. Unfortunately, by avoiding a stand on how to end the Occupation, his proposed new political party may well surge in popularity, then shrivel when it has to face the central question facing the Israeli polity.
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Outstanding Jewish Women
Thursday, July 22, 2010, 10:40 PM
Tags: women Jewishwomen womenrabbis feminism Jewishfeminism Judaism TikkunMagazine Tikkun TikkunOlamOne of the things we are most proud of at Tikkun has been our consistent attempt to bring to the world of public intellectual life the voices of some of the most creative women thinkers, many of whom are presented here in this list. Yet we always feel disappointed that we don't have more women spiritual teachers (of all faiths) writing for Tikkun, so if you happen to be one such, you are invited to make contact with our Assistant Editor Alana Price Alana@Tikkun.org
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The Wall St. Bill Doesn?t Protect Us From Banker Abuse: 5 Essential Reforms Are Still Needed « SpeakEasy
Thursday, July 22, 2010, 06:08 AM
Tags:While the Obama Administration hails its own success in getting the most significant banking reforms since the New Deal, the rest of the country yawns. Why? Because the reforms were more cosmetic than substantive, avoiding the deeper problems that persist and continue to make our economy unstable.
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Jurists say Arab's rape conviction sets dangerous precedent - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 07:18 AM
Tags: Aleph Justice Rape sex concensualsex JewishRenewalWhy Marc Gafni, accused of "rape" for having consensual sex with 3 women in Israel, might not want to go back to stand trial.
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t r u t h o u t | Managed News: Inside The US/NATO Military Industrial Media Empire
Sunday, July 18, 2010, 03:21 PM
Tags: Media Tikkun Military MilitaryIndustrial US/NATO AmericanPolitics militarism imperialism democracy DemocratsThis is one story that could, if better understood, change the dynamics of American politics. But it won't be better understood, or even reported, for reasons explored in this article.
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t r u t h o u t | Big Oil Makes War on the Earth: The Gulf Coast Joins an Oil-Soiled Planet
Sunday, July 18, 2010, 03:18 PM
Tags: oil BP GulfOilSpill Obama Tikkun corporationsIs it ironic, or revelatory, that the Obama Administration, NOT the Republicans, gave BP its permission to drill offshore, breaking what had been for decades an effective block on much of the offshore drilling sought by the oil conglomerates?
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Alexander Cockburn: The Fall of Obama
Sunday, July 18, 2010, 03:04 PM
Tags: Obama Tikkun economiccrisis environment peace war Democrats politicsCockburn is partially right. The problem with Obama is that he didn't understand that "getting something passed as legislation" was far less important than telling people the truth about our failed war on terror, our economic subservience to corporate interests, our global ecological crisis, and our overly-powerful military industrial complex. Had he consistently done that and proposed solutions like those we've proposed in Tikkun, he and the Democrats would be riding high today in public opinion.
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Jewish Terrorist, Charged With Multiple Palestinian Murders, ?Outs? Chief of Shin Bet?s Jewish Terror Department | Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place
Sunday, July 18, 2010, 06:52 AM
Tags:Jewish Terrorist, Charged With Multiple Palestinian Murders, ?Outs? Chief of Shin Bet?s Jewish Terror Department
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Jewish rightist site claims this is Avi Arieli, chief of Shin Bet's Jewish department
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OpEdNews - Article: WellPoint's White Knight Rides Again
Sunday, July 18, 2010, 06:52 AM
Tags:Tikkun Editor: This is a foretaste of how the Obama Health Care "reform" will be implemented.
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Women of Wall leader arrested - Israel News, Ynetnews
Monday, July 12, 2010, 07:01 AM
Tags: Judaism Torah AnatHoffman WomenoftheWall civilrights humanrights women feminism JewishRenewal IsraelEditor's Note: Anat Hoffman is one of our Tikkun heroes--and the Women of the Wall are a courageous group who have refused to let the Orthodox establishment continue to repress Jewish women's right to pray at the Wall (the remnants of our ancient Temple in Jerusalem). Ms. Hoffman was previously an elected member of the Jerusalem city council, where she fought for the rights of Palestinians and the poor. The Orthodox establishment in Israel never misses an opportunity to pour shame on the Judaism of which we at Tikkun are so proud--desecrating God's name in the name of their own male power and chauvinist nationalism.
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Joe Bageant: Our Plunder of Nature Will End Up Killing Capitalism and Our Obscene Lifestyles | | AlterNet
Monday, July 12, 2010, 06:41 AM
Tags: capitalism economy environment Tikkun natureEditor's note: I don't know who this guy is, but he seems to understand the issues better than 99% of all columnists and op-ed writers in the mainstream media. Whoops--he isn't IN the mainstream media!
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Racism in the name of halakha - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Sunday, July 11, 2010, 08:59 PM
Tags: Israel TikkunIsrael Tikkun TishaB'av RabbiAmital RavAmital Orthodox Orthodoxy IsraelOrthodoxyFirst, it's sad to know that Rabbi Amital, founder of the political party Meimad, the only peace-oriented religious party in ISrael, passed away this past weekend. His memory shall be a blessing for all who knew him and his work!
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Equally sad to realize that the tendency he represented in the religious world has not continued, but essentially withered away while right-wing racists and militarists have become the dominant voice among the orthodox in Israel. It's something worth mourning this Tisha B'av.
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A society falling apart - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Friday, July 9, 2010, 06:08 PM
Tags:Israel's moral collapse is plain for the world to see, but with a media that is censored by the army, few Israelis really understand what is happening, and fewer really care. Unfortunately, the voice of Tikkun's editorial board member Zeev Sternhell is not heard by most Israelis, though he is one of the world's most respected historians and teaches at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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Is Israel a normal country? - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Friday, July 9, 2010, 06:03 PM
Tags:Of course, no country is "a normal country"--each has its own unique heritage and history. Is China "normal"--well the terrain is normal, but china today is a product of a counter-revolution against a communist revolution. Is the US "normal"--well the terrain is normal but the US is the product of genocide of Native Americans, 300 years of slavery and another hundred of segregation, and yet also a history of welcoming immigrants until the 1920s. Israel is certainly not less or more normal than any other society, and human rights laws were created to put all the abnormal countries (namely everyone) on the same footing.
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Robert Scheer: Two More Candidates for the McChrystal Treatment - Robert Scheer's Columns - Truthdig
Friday, July 9, 2010, 05:57 PM
Tags:From the first moments of his presidency, Tikkun called for Obama to create a new national bank to give interest-free loans to those who would invest it in small business hiring, education, home acquisitions, and other socially useful projects, and for Obama to let the capitalist marketplace "work its magic" without government interference, letting those banks and investment companies and corporations destined to fail to reach their destiny. Coupled with a law to require banks to lower all mortgage rates to the level at which they were first offered, such a path would have brought popularity to the Dems and sanity to the economy. Now they are facing the consequences of deciding to put their money behind the fat cats.
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Mark Penn: Poll Shows People Support Checks and Balances, But Want More Limits on Supreme Court Justices
Friday, July 9, 2010, 05:26 PM
Tags:Americans are ready for some significant changes in the Constitution. So this is certainly the moment to get progressive and liberal forces to back the proposed ESRA--Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the US Constitution. After you read that ESRA at www.spiritualprogressives.org/ESRA, tell us what other points you believe should be included. RabbiLerner@tikkun.org
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Israel News - Haaretz Israeli News source.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 07:54 PM
Tags:Haaretz.com is the world's leading English-language Website for real-time news and analysis of Israel and the Middle East.
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Haaretz.Com
Monday, July 5, 2010, 07:15 AM
Tags:Shlomo Avineri has been an apologist for Israeli policies for the past twenty years or more. Nevertheless, his argument against the one state solution for Israel/Palestine is powerful and needs to be addressed. De facto, if the Israeli presence in East Jerusalem and the West Bank continues to expand, a two state solution becomes impossible and one person one vote becomes inevitable for Israel/Palestine.
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The last tuna nigiri on Earth
Friday, July 2, 2010, 11:06 AM
Tags:Soon the tuna will be gone forever. It's part of the destruction of the earth and seas that our global capitalist system is bringing us. And yet there are no demonstrations, no group willing to tell its Congressional leaders that unless they take steps to stop the destruction of the earth they will no longer receive any financial or political support, no outcry. Do you get now why we need the Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment so very very very badly? www.spiritualprogressives.org/ESRA
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Towards a New Economy and a New Politics | Solutions
Friday, July 2, 2010, 07:29 AM
Tags: environment politicaleconomy economics politics consumerism economicgrowth recession environmentalism povertyTikkun Editor's Note: Gus Speth provides a brilliant account of the political and environmental crisis facing us, and shows why it is a change in consciousness that is the highest first priority to save the planet. We call that change a New Bottom Line and have worked out what that would look like in political terms: the ESRA at www.spiritualprogressives.org/ESRA, the Global Marshall Plan at www.spiritualprogressives.org/gmp, and the Spiritual Covenant with America at www.spiritualprogressives.org. If you agree with Speth, please read those concrete ways to move forward!
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Naomi Klein on the Gulf Oil Disaster
Sunday, June 20, 2010, 12:42 PM
Tags: Tikkun GulfOilSpill Disaster Nature EnvironmentObama cannot order pelicans not to die (no matter whose ass he kicks). And no amount of money not BP's $20bn, not $100bn can replace aculture that's lost its roots.' flickr image by kbaird
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Everyone gathered for the town hall meeting had been repeatedly instructed to show civility to the gentlemen from BP and the federal government. These fine folks had made time in their busy schedules to come to a high school gymnasium on a Tuesday night in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, one of many coastal communities where brown poison was slithering through the marshes, part of what has come to be described as the largest environmental disaster in US history.
"Speak to others the way you would want to be spoken to," the chair of the meeting pleaded one last time before opening the floor for questions.
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Israel: Join the Middle East ..by Yossi Yonah
Sunday, June 20, 2010, 12:19 PM
Tags: israel MiddleEastPeace Mizrachim Zionism ZionistCongressA Zionist speaks truth to power
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Cap-and-dividend NOT Cap-and-trade
Friday, June 18, 2010, 06:02 AM
Tags: Ecology Environment Bipartisan MariaCantwell SusanCollinsRabbi Michael Lerner comments: The cap-and-trade legislation championed by the Democrats and the Obama White House is actually a wild give-away to polluters and will do little to achieve significant carbon reductions. It's not clear how this plan will improve on that except to give money to most Americans. The way to stop carbon pollution is to make it illegal. A second less coercive way is to heavily tax that pollution. Anything short of those measures is likely to prove a distraction. Yet both Senators Maria Cantwell and Susan Collins are genuine in their concern for the environment, so their approach deserves some attention.
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Tikkun Magazine - Voices Supporting Israel's Actions Against the Gaza Aid Flotilla
Friday, June 4, 2010, 06:38 AM
Tags: Israel Gaza GazaAidFlotilla GazaFlotilla GazaHumanitarian Aid SupportIsraelVoices Supporting Israel's Actions Against the Gaza Aid Flotilla Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version
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Though we at Tikkun and the NSP oppose Israel's actions this week and have unequivocally condemned them, we continue our policy of presenting opposing views to ours. It is only by hearing the voices on all side of an issue that we can really understand the complexities and be in a position to defend our own ideas, or change or modify them, as we learn from others.
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Tikkun Magazine - Killings on the High Seas
Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 03:28 PM
Tags: Gaza Flotilla Israel Palestine HumanitarianOn the Israeli Assault on the Humanitarian Flotilla to Gaza
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America May Be More Progressive Than The Media Tells Us
Sunday, May 23, 2010, 07:08 AM
Tags: Obama AmericanPolitics 2010Election Tikkun SocialJustice Economics Progressives ReligiousLiberalsWhile the media's focus on the rise of the Tea Party Right has led many to believe that the reason why the Obama Administration "must compromise" its ideals is that the country it seeks to govern in a center-right society, Charles Derber's analysis of a recent poll by Pew suggests quite the contrary! Yet we can't be too optimistic either--because to the extent that people believe the media (and many, including many in the blog-o-sphere depend on the establishment media for their primary source of information, because most people on the internet won't pay for their news sources here, so we who try to give them information don't have the financial resources to fund independent journalists to provide our own sources of information), the belief that the country is a center-right reality has the tendency to become increasingly self-fulfilling!
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Is Israel Heading Toward Fascism?
Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 01:51 PM
Tags: Israel Peace SocialJustice Palestine NetworkofSpiritualProgressivesHa'aretz columnist Bradley Burston laments the way non-violent demonstrations are being attacked by police, but rejects the notion that this represents a systematic move toward a fascist society. What do you think?
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Israeli Consul in SF Akiva Tor explains the anti-Semitism he experienced in the BDS movement in Berkeley
Thursday, May 13, 2010, 12:54 PM
Tags: BDS Israel Jerusalem Israel/Palestine Peace Tikkun ProgressivesRather than provide a Tikkun perspective on BDS, we've decided that our best contribution would be to provide a space in Tikkun and in our conference in DC June 11-13 at which BDS (Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel or against companies doing business with Israel, or with companies that specifically support, benefit or produce products to assist or support the IDF in its implementation of THE OCCUPATION OF The WEST BANK of Palestine) can be respectfully discussed and debated. As part of that, we are presenting Akiva Tor's perspective on what he experienced when he last attended such a discussion, in part as a clear guide to what needs to be avoided in future discussions and actions on this topic.
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Many Americans Oppose New Construction in the West Bank and Jerusalem
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 02:49 PM
Tags: PalestineDespite overwhelming suppport for Israel's existence, a very large number of Americans understand that a final agreement between Israel and Palestine will require an end to settlement activity. Since Israel claims to be ready to make major concessions to make that happen, it is irrational to build more settlements which become a living proof to Palestinians that Israel is not serious about peace, but only seeking to buy more and more time till President Obama can be replaced by a more hawkish supporter of the Israeli right-wing.
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