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Two State Solution is the Only Solution–says Uri Avnery, Leader of the Israeli Peace Movement Gush Shalom
Uri Avnery, chair of Israel’s peace movement Gush Shalom in Tel Aviv, challenges those lefties and righties who repeat the mantra that “the 2 state soluiton is dead.” If only the “One State” solution is on the agenda, he points …
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US Politics

How the Market Economy Undermines Ethics
The author of this article ignores the environmental threat to the survival of the human race that global capitalism has become, but his thinking about its destructive impact on the ethical climate is significant (and in part it is the …
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Israel/Palestine

Why the Russian Jews in Israel Vote Reactionary
The Russians Came Uri Avnery http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Russians-Came-by-Uri-Avnery-130428-758.html April 27, 2013                                                WHEN THE huge immigration wave from the Soviet Union arrived in 1990, we were glad. First of all, because we believe that all immigration is a good thing …
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Global Capitalism

Drones Over there, total surveillance over here–by Saskia Sassen
Drones Over there, total surveillance over here by Saskia Sassen 19 Feb 2013 http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/02/2013210114231346318.html The massive surveillance system built up over the last 10 years is the domestic companion of overseas drone killings. There are at least 10,000 buildings across …
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Israel/Palestine

Israeli doctors who betray their training
Gideon Levy’s article, Israeli Doctors Who Betray Their Training, http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/israeli-doctors-who-betray-their-training.premium-1.513345 in Ha’aretz, no longer shocks because of the way the US has gotten used to torture by American intelligence agencies and the collaboration of psychologists in the American Psychological Association. Israeli …
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Israel/Palestine

Obama’s Speech to Israelis–the text and my commentary
An editorial preface from Rabbi Michael Lerner: If only Obama could go beyond the brilliant principles he articulated today to Israelis in Jerusalem—to follow through with action based on those principles!!! Obama had an amazing opportunity to paint a detailed …
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Judaism

Support Women of the Wall in Jerusalem
Tikkun and our interfaith  (and atheist-welcoming) Network of Spiritual Progressives unequivocally support the right of women in Israel to pray in any way they choose at the Wall (site of what is believed to be the ancient Temple), despite the attacks …
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Israel/Palestine

Israel’s Occupation is not Zionism
This oped from Ha’aretz newspaper in Israel shows how much people with a moral conscience in Israel are trying to reconcile Israel’s actual reality with the ideals that once animated the Zionist movement. It’s actually quite sad to witness that …
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Judaism

Purim Wisdom: Explaining the Deeper Meaning of this Jewish Holiday which begins Saturday night, Feb. 23
Purim Wisdom: Explaining the Deeper Meaning of this Jewish Holiday which begins Saturday night, Feb. 23 February 22, 2013 Purim Wisdom Explaining the deeper meaning of this holiday! «Blame, Responsibility, and Care Weekly Sermon – Breaking Ground: Endless Desire» Torah …
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Israel/Palestine

Obama’s Visit to Israel–Why Is He Going (an analysis by Carl Boice)
Bloice’s analysis raises very important questions. The worst possible outcome: Netanyahu agrees to some cosmetic step toward negotiations or even suspends all construction of settlements on the West Bank, though he intends in the actual negotiations that ensue to offer …
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Christianity

Ratzinger/Pope Benedict’s Destructive Legacy: Two Catholic Theologians Speak Out and Call Christians to Action to Save Christianity
In saying that the two pieces below are from Catholic theologians, we in the interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives are insisting that Catholicism is more than what the Vatican says it is. The Church is what the Vatican II said it is: "the community of the people of God." Pope Benedict XVI's Legacy by Matthew Fox It was a breath of fresh air to hear that the pope has chosen to step down, the first pope in 7 centuries to do so. What he and his predecessor wrought to the Catholic Church as we know it is nothing short of devastation. But as a Christian I see their 42 year reign as so destroying the church we know that now the Holy Spirit can give birth to a community far more attuned to the revolutionary Gospel of Jesus than the current and dying structures ever could be. Those structures are as passe as the Berlin Wall. Thinking of Benedict the man, I think this was a very wise decision indeed for before he “meets his Maker” he surely has a lot of soul work to accomplish. Below is a short list of some of the issues history will hold him accountable for both as cardinal and as pope. Were I his confessor, I would start work on them very soon. (Since this is a list, I offer page numbers of my study on his life and papacy to see the back up evidence.) His silence for years about the notorious pedophile priest Father Maciel who was so close to Pope John Paul II that he was invited on his plane often and was feted to a mass ordination of his seminarians by the pope in St Peter's Square. This man, who sexually abused dozens of his seminarians and had two wives on the side and sexually abused his own children (though a priest with vows of celibacy), was not fully investigated until 2005 even though a New York bishop wrote Ratzinger's office in 1995. (125-130) His and the previous pope's unwillingness to divorce themselves from the politics of Father Maciel who was a great admirers of the blood-soaked dictator Pinochet in Chile. His attacks when head of the CDF (formerly “Office of the Holy Inquisition”) on theologians the world over who dared to do their job which is to think. He denounced, fired, hounded, at least 105 theologians not only from his chair of CDF but also as pope (they are listed on page 238-241 of my book The Pope's War ). He and his predecessor brought back the Inquisition and in fact killed theology, reducing it to 1) a catechism and 2) Saying Yes to whatever the pope (or his curia) said. His unrelenting attacks on base communities and Liberation Theology (thus fulfilling Ronald Reagan's plans to “split the church” in Latin America) even though this movement, like the civil rights movement of the U.S., was the most Christ-like movement for democracy and justice and freedom in centuries. One side light of these attacks has been a void of genuine Christianity in Latin America, a void being filled by Pentecostal (and right wing political) churches there. (pp. 41-62) His (and the previous pope's) complete pushing of neo-fascist sects as the new “religious order” and shock troops of the pope beginning with the secret “Opus Dei” which is embedded in places of great power including cardinals and bishops all over the world and also financial headquarters of EU, the US Supreme Court, the CIA (especially under George Bush the first), FBI, and the US mainstream media. (pp. 106-124) His and the previous pope's rushing the founder of Opus Dei, Fr. Escriva, a card-carrying fascist who actually praised Hitler, into canonization faster than any saint in history (and destroying the age-old process of canonization in the process by eliminating the “devil's advocate's” role which is to bring up the shadow side of the candidate). Books by former Opus Dei members include his personal secretary of 7 years were completely ignored and their testimony was never asked for. The cover-up of pedophile clergy in the US, in Ireland and elsewhere. The recent HBO film tells the facts about some of these horrors and how the buck stopped with Ratzinger. All the cover up put an Institution ahead of the rights of young children (see Jesus on this in ). (pp. 134-174) His and the previous pope's putting wind in the sails of extreme right wing groups from Maciel's Legion of Christ to Communion and Liberation to Opus Dei and their support of zealots such as neo con and theo con George Weigel. (pp. 130-144) The end of religious ecumenism. Ratzinger as pope managed to insult Islam; Judaism; all Protestant churches (he says they are not churches); also as cardinal Thich Naht Hahn (whom the Vatican called “the anti-Christ”) and yoga—wrote Ratzinger—Christians should not do it because it “puts you too much in touch with your body.” The dumbing down of the church not only by condemning thinkers but by appointing Bishops and cardinals world-wide whose only qualification for the job is to be a loyal Yes man, thus the loading down of church decision makers for generations who don't have a conscience, an intellect or a clue about the spiritual needs of people. A complete reaffirmation of a “morality” of Sexism (no women priests ever; Catholic sisters in America are now subject to investigations like theologians have been); and of Homophobia—Ratzinger composed not one but two documents as head of CDF that were mean-spirited and spiteful about gay persons and ignored scientific research even as pope that has created another Galileo moment in church history. He stuck by his “no condoms even in an age of AIDS” position that is all about St Augustine's silly sexual ethic and not anything Jesus ever taught. Even birth control in a time of excessive human population on a crowded planet remains, in his rigid world view, the law of the church and any theologian (or bishop) who questions such matters is suspect. [A side note from Fox]: A. The translator of my book “The Pope's War” into German wrote me that she cried many times translating the book because her generation was promised “no more fascism.” Yet, she said, my book proved that fascism was back in the church and “especially the German and Polish wings of the church. Susan Sontag defines fascism as “institutionalized violence”--there has been tons of that in the past two papacies from condemnation of theologians to support of pedophile priests to hounding of Catholic sisters living norms of Gospel peace and justice. Benito Mussolini defined fascism as “the marriage of corporations and government.” The United Citizens decision happened in the Supreme Court by votes of five Roman Catholic judges, four of them very conservative Catholics (and probably three Opus Dei Catholics). Declaring corporations “persons”--is anything more fascist than that? Fascism is a commitment to obedience ahead of all other virtues (including justice). It is always patriarchal and anti-women. Yes, sad to say, it has returned. And Ratzinger was its drum major. 12. The interference in the presidential election of 2004 wherein Ratzinger instructed American bishops to read his declaration that any “catholic politician” (i.e. Kerry) who did not denounce gays and abortion could not receive communion. The result was three states had very unusual Republican votes from Catholics—if just one of them had had more normal Catholic vote, Kerry, not Bush, would have been president. With such a trail of devastation as this, Father Ratzinger, ex-pope and ex-Inquisitor, is right to retire. Hopefully, beginning in this time of Lent, he will do some soul searching and asking for forgiveness. Unfortunately, because he and his predecessor appointed only Yes Men as cardinals, one should not expect any improvement in the next pope. Instead we should recognize that history has passed the papacy by and that now is the time for the Holy Spirit to push the restart button on Christianity, both Catholic and Protestant versions, so as to strip down to the essence of Jesus' teaching and the Cosmic Christ tradition. Toward this end, Andrew Harvey and myself are starting up a series of “Christ Path” seminars available on line or in person (see info@christpathseminar.org) This restart of Christianity can be done without basilicas on our backs but mere backpacks. Travel lightly. Walk humbly. Do justice. And peace will follow. Ratzinger's retirement and his fifty years of reactionary religion shed the spotlight on the need for a profound re-start of Christianity--not only its Catholic wing but its Protestant wings as well. I [ Matthew Fox] have written about that in my recent books, A New Reformation and The Pope's War: How Ratzinger's Crusade Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved. Now Andrew Harvey and I are teaming up (with another thinker who will join us at each event) for a series of "Initiations" that we call the "Christ Path Seminars." They are weekends, four per year; the first meets March 8 to 10; you can attend in person or on line. We are offering the whole thing as a 'gift economy,' that is you can join us for only $50 for the entire weekend (though we will ask for donations afterwards to help pay expenses). For more info see: info@christpathseminar.org. Following is a rationale for our project from Andrew Harvey. In a sane world – which of course this isn’t – Ratzinger would be hauled before a World Court and arraigned as a criminal whose whole life has been an attack on fundamental human rights. This is a time in which the masks have been stripped from the face of all forms of patriarchal power to reveal the nasty and cruel face beneath. If we miss the meaning of this stripping away in our desperate need for false certainties and in our addiction to learned helplessness and blind reverence for dying and lethal forms of authority, we will miss the central challenge of our time as Christians. That is, to reinvent a Christianity that blazes with the sacred passion of Jesus for the realization of the truth of justice and universal compassion on every level and in every realm of the world. Jesus is the supreme revolutionary of love in human history, and his message continues to call us all to the sacrifice of our personal interests to the dangerous creation of radical new forms and ways of protest and social and political transformation. The adventure that Matthew Fox and I are co-creating in the Christ Path Seminar is not some kind of theological luxury but an absolute necessity. As a series of initiatory workshops, building a beloved community, its vision is to restore the truth of the Christian message and the rousing of…to rouse millions to start acting from sacred love and sacred outrage….and ultimately to change all the existing political, economic, social, sexual and psychological systems that keep us addicted to greed and narcissistically paralyzed before the growing devastation of this planet. The fall of Ratzinger should make it clear now that the time for this adventure has arrived and that speaking truth to power of all kinds, while it may not work immediately, over time has an extraordinary effect. I hope as many of you as are awakening to the danger and possibility of our times can join us – because the reinvention of Christianity cannot be done by just a few people. , but It has to be a co-creation in with the Holy Spirit of by all those agonized, inspired and brave enough to follow the Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 25, and the great mystics of the Cosmic Christ into a vision of the glory of the creation, and the sanctity of all life…a co-creation spurred by and the necessity of creating systems that honor and protect that glory and sanctity with the full force of justice and compassion and radical action. Every day we do not undertake this great alchemical transformation is a day that takes us closer to potential extinction of the human race and a great deal of nature. Let us realize this without illusion, and let us together reconsecrate ourselves to the dangerous life of love in action and prophetic passion and compassion that costs everything and gives everything.
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US Politics

Chris Hedges: The NDAA and the Death of the Democratic State
The NDAA and the Death of the Democratic State By Chris Hedges (about the author)     Permalink       (Page 1 of 2 pages) OpEdNews Op Eds 2/11/2013 at 12:38:14 Become a Fan (266 fans) Related Topic(s): America; Citizens; Decline; Democracy; Justice; Ndaa National Defense Authorization Act; State Terrorism, Add Tags Add to My Group(s) opednews.com   Cross-posted from Truthdig …
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Judaism

Remembering Rabbi David Hartman of Jerusalem
February 19, 2013 Remembering Rabbi David Hartman of Jerusalem David Hartman was one of the most creative Jewish intellectuals of the 20th century. A student of Rav Soloveitchik at Yeshiva University, Hartman served as an orthodox rabbi in Canada before …
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US Politics

Understanding Mali
The Mali Blowback: More to Come? By Stephen Zunes, February 1, 2013 The French-led military offensive in its former colony of Mali has pushed back radical Islamists and allied militias from some of the country’s northern cities, freeing the local population …
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US Politics

Amira Hass says: “Palestinian Ghettos Were Always the Plan”
It’s worth reading Amira Hass’s latest Haaretz article on right-wing politician Naftali Bennet’s plan annex Israeli-controlled parts of the West Bank. She writes: When Habayit Hayehudi party leader and rising political star Naftali Bennett calls for annexing Area C, the …
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US Politics

How to Create a Tikkun/NSP Network of Spiritual Progressives Presence in Your Town
Our goal: A change in consciousness. Creating a Tikkun/NSP Presence in your community means spreading these ideas. Nothing will change in our world till we have popularized the following notions of Tikkun/NSP: 1. Our well-being depends upon the well-being of …
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Activism

A sad but humorous account of the divisions in Germany’s left-wing activist forces
Ed note: Victor Grossman is a frequent writer for Tikkun and has an insider understanding of the dynamics inside the German Left. A VALIANT PHONY, VALIANT PROTESTS AND A VALIANT DOG Victor Grossman, Berlin          Bulletin No. 51, January 15, 2013 First …
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US Politics

“Failure of Epic Proportions: Obama’s TreasuryNominee Jack Lew and his Pro-Bank, Austerity, Deregulation Legacy
“Failure of Epic Proportions”: Treasury Nominee Jack Lew’s Pro-Bank, Austerity, Deregulation Legacy A transcript of Juan Gonzalez & Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now for January 11, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/11/failure_of_epic_proportions_treasury_nominee Former bank regulator William Black and Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi join us to dissect the …
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Judaism

What Would A.J. Heschel Be Doing or Advocating Today?
At the Philadelphia “Heschel/King Festival” last week, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Abraham Joshua  Heschel’s death (his Yarhzeit), I was asked to speak about what this man, now recognized as the most significant American Jewish theologian of …
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Israel/Palestine

Avnery on the Coming Israeli Elections
Uri Avnery December 29, 2012                                                   A Person Called Nobody   SUDDENLY, I realized that a new star had appeared on the political firmament of Israel. Until yesterday I did not even know of its existence. …
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US Politics

Michael Moore on US Violence and Christmas in America
FOCUS: Celebrating the Prince of Peace in the Land of Guns By Michael Moore, Open Mike Blog 24 December 12   fter watching the deranged, delusional National Rifle Association press conference on Friday, it was clear that the Mayan prophecy …
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US Politics

A World Based on Generosity
http://www.moonmagazine.org/rabbi-michael-lerner-a-world-based-on-generosity-2012-12-09/ Rabbi Michael Lerner | A world based on generosity in Interview Rabbi Michael Lerner “If you don’t create a world based on loving your neighbor, loving the stranger, and pursuing justice and peace, the world won’t work. There will be …
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US Politics

This Crescendoing Celebration of Violence–Inciting Violence and Violent Minds by Investing in Violence and Violent Minds – Does Peace Stand a Chance? Thoughts and Analysis in the Wake of the Election.
Phil Wolfson MD December 2012 This Crescendoing Celebration of Violence–Inciting Violence and Violent Minds by Investing in Violence and Violent Minds—Does Peace Stand a Chance? Thoughts and Analysis in the Wake of the Election. I am crying today—as are so …
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War & Peace

Mark Levine: Strange Days in Cairo
Strange Days in Cairo “Hello, how are you? Welcome? Are you Muslim? Christian? Jewish? It doesn’t matter. This is democracy. Very Good” So explained a man, one of hundreds, who was at the Muslim Brotherhood/Freedom and Justice Party rally on …
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Israel/Palestine

No to Hamas’ Meshal and his call for armed struggle till Israel is eliminated
Editor’s Note:  I usually love Avnery’s articles, but in the one below I think his contextualizing Hamas’ chief Meshal in his one time visit to Gaza (he was exiled out of Palestine in a deal after Israel’s failed attempt to …
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Judaism

How to do Chanukah, 2012
    How to Do Chanukah By Rabbi Michael Lerner   Chanukah is the holiday celebrating the triumph of hope over fear, light over darkness, the powerless over the powerful. It begins this Saturday night, Dec. 8th and end at …
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Israel Punishing Palestinians for UN recognition by Further Undermining 2 State Possibilities
Israel’s move to punish Palestine by building new settlements is a disaster. Please read the editorial below by the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, but also my comments on the Reform Judaism response which has been very disappointing. Editor’s Note: For those …
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Israel/Palestine

Text of the UN resolution recognizing Palestine Nov. 29, 2012
Status of Palestine in the United Nations The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and stressing in this regard the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, Recalling its resolution …
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Israel/Palestine

Why the US and Israel should Support Palestinian Upgrade of Status at the UN
Editor’s note: Rabbi Michael Lerner is editor of Tikkun: A Quarterly Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, chair of the interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives and rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue in Berkeley, California. He welcomes feedback: rabbilerner.tikkun@gmail.com  This article appeared first on CNN.com …
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Spirituality

Making Thanksgiving Meaningful
MAKING THANKSGIVING MEANINGFUL  by Rabbi Michael Lerner   Many families take a moment to go around the Thanksgiving table to ask each person to say what they are grateful for. That is a wonderful practice to build upon. But too …
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Israel/Palestine

Israel and Gaza: Enough Is Enough
Israel and Gaza: Enough is Enough By Rabbi Michael Lerner All the usual suspects are cheering on their respective sides in the latest struggle between Israel and Palestine being fought out at the expense of some Israeli and more Palestinian …
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US Politics

In Praise of the American People
In Praise of the American People  by Rabbi Michael Lerner Every time right-wing forces in ascendency manage to grab hold of Congress or the presidency, liberal and progressive commentators, editorialists and blogs are filled with analyses blaming the outcome on …
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US Politics

Liberals and Progressives Happy but Not Elated About Obama’s Re-Election
Liberals and Progressives Happy but Not Elated About Obama’s Re-Election Sunday, 11 November 2012 07:17By Rabbi Michael Lerner, President Barack Obama amidst confetti after giving his victory speech during his election night event at the McCormick Place Lakeside Center in Chicago, …
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US Politics

Obama Must Use Military to Ensure a Free and Fair Election: An Op-Ed by Jonathan Klate
Editor’s note: if you agree with this note, please call your local and national media and ask them to report on this appeal to Obama. They can speak to Tikkun staff at 510-644-1200. Obama Must Use Military to Ensure a …
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Environment

Hurricane Sandy
Editor’s note: Perhaps the most generous teaching of the God or Spiritual Reality of the Universe comes in the second paragraph of the Shma prayer (in Deuteronomy) where it tells us that if we do not create a world based oon …
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US Politics

Songs of the Occupy Movement for the 99%
Here are some fun songs you can use to convey a part of the spirit of the Occupy movement!   Fight the Status Quo (Tune: Let My People Go, new words by Hali Hammer)   When Egypt was Mubarek’s land …
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US Politics

Move Your Money from Exploitative Banks
If you currently use a big Wall Street bank, join the wave of people switching to small local banks and non-profit credit unions. Then walk into the nearest branch of your Big Bank and say: “PLEASE CLOSE MY ACCOUNT.”
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US Politics

Tom Hayden argues for why the Left should support Obama
This and other articles on the election from our readers appear at the Spiritual Progressive website where we wil present a range of views of what spiritual progressives can do in the coming months.  SAVING OBAMA, SAVING OURSELVES by Tom Hayden TUESDAY, …
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War & Peace

Noam Chomsky on the Immorality of US & Israeli Policy Toward Iran–and my small quibbles with Chomsky
  Editor’s Note: Noam Chomsky powerfully presents (below)  the case against US and Israeli policy toward Iran. Yet I’m troubled by an aspect of the situation to which Chomsky gives only brief lip-service. Millions of people demonstrated against the stealing …
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Justice & Prisons

Justice as Grand Strategy: The Missing Dimension in American Foreign Policy Toward the Muslim World
Editor’s note: Robert Crane raises an important issue in the article below. I think the notion of a substantive concept of justice is very important, though I do not think that the way Crane fills this in  is satisfactory. Crane …
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US Politics

Strategic Voting for Progressives in Nov.2012
  Editor’s note: Tikkun Magazine, following the regulations that allow you to donate to Tikkun and get a tax-deduction,  does not take stands on political candidates or parties.  We do encourage people to vote. In the coming two months we …
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Israel/Palestine

Uri Avnery on the threat of a war with Iran
Uri Avnery August 18, 2012 The Threat of a War with Iran: Mad or Crazy? BINYAMIN NETANYAHU may be crazy, but he is not mad. Ehud Barak may be mad, but he is not crazy. Ergo: Israel will not attack …
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Israel/Palestine

Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions: Opposing Occupations Everywhere
Editor’s Note: Stephen Zunes is a Contributing Editor to Tikkun Magazine and  professor of political science at the University of San Francisco. His article comes very very close to articulating the position on BDS (Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions) held by …
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US Politics

Dealing with Psychopaths
Editor's note: I have my doubts about parts of this analysis: 1. I doubt if the research he cites can be assumed to hold cross cultures, so I think his numbers are very exaggerated 2. I think there is a …
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US Politics

A Progressive Way to Celebrate July 4
Faced with July 4th celebrations that are focused on militarism, ultra-nationalism, and “bombs bursting in air,” many American families who do not share those values turn July 4th into another summer holiday focused on picnics, sports, and fireworks, while doing …
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War & Peace

The Gunter Grass controversy
Germany – Aggrieved about Grass Victor Grossman, Berlin          (Victor Grossman has written for Tikkun from Germany for many years) It’s rare that poems cause such anger and excitement. The only other case I can recall was Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of …
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US Politics

Two extraordinary articles by Jimmy Carter, former President of the U.S., one on US imperialism, the other on US drug policy
NY TIMES  June 24, 2012 A Cruel and Unusual Record By JIMMY CARTER Atlanta THE United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights. Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American …
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War & Peace

Syria: The Complicated Reality of the Struggle
Editor’s note: In posting this interview of Sami Ramadani by Samuel Groves of the New Left Project, I do not mean to be endorsing the analysis presented here, some of which makes sense to me and some of which is …
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Israel/Palestine

Is Israeli Treatment of Africans They are Seeking to Deport “Racism, Pure and Simple?”
Note from Rabbi Michael Lerner: I usually agree with Uri Avnery, but in this case (read his article below), I don’t agree that the (in my mind immoral and disgusting) treatment of African refugees reducible to “racism, pure and simple” …
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War & Peace


  Review of this book written by: Lynn Feinerman dvashah@yahoo.com who writes occasionally for Tikkun Magazine OBEYING A HIGHER LAW:  Making the Case Against Drone Warfare Review of DRONE WARFARE:  Killing by Remote Control by Medea Benjamin I had already determined I …
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