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For the record, Jeff Dorchen speaks the truth.

Secular Jew is codeword both for all Jews and pretty much all fairness or liberty tinged social progress.

http://mejeffdorchen.oblivio.com/moments/moment_perfectjew.html

Listen to him say it. This is language my father would understand.

Lest those who do know that both the Bush regime and the current Iranian regime are evil fool themselves into the wishful thinking that a U.S. attack on Iran would have any good at all:

In help to: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307Z.shtml

In regards to the difficulties people have receiving Truthout e-mail at AOL and Yahoo, may I suggest:

1. Point people to an ISP founded precisely to ensure people's access to independent media: http://www.indylink.org

2. Use a progressive e-mail service such as Electric Embers that has vast experience dealing with the big ISPs: http://electricembers.org/

best,

benjamin melançon

Also wrote back to Steve Anderson of http://coanews.org/ who sent me the link:

I have no idea what aimlesspassion.com could be used for, so I didn't register it even though I thought of it. That's progress.

It's profound. Think it over.

The universe is the center of me.

Naomi Klein at the annual conference for the American Sociological Association broadcast by Democracy Now:

We either value African life, understand a black life as equal to a white life and the poor as equally deserving as the wealthy – or we do not.

Read Mukoma Ngugi's article which makes clear the reasons radical change is needed for the people of Africa (even more than most of the world), and why this is the appropriate spot:

I am a writer. At least, I call myself a writer. Not because of any talent in writing, but because I'm a really bad talker.

More on NowPublic.

(Via http://justagwailo.com/2007/07/31/7794 "There's only two types of journalism: good journalism and bad journalism")

Scott Karp's "It’s Not Citizen Journalism Or Crowdsourcing - It’s Just Journalism"
http://publishing2.com/2007/07/30/its-not-citizen-journalism-or-crowdsou...

I don't care about the terms so much, but I am very concerned with defining journalism as process and standards (which everyone has to talk about more) and not as a profession.

It's a question that has to be asked, and perhaps, in the asking, make it less likely to happen...

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2722