Here is a recently released scene from It Kinda Scares Me, a 2001 documentary about a gay drama coach and the troubled boys he teaches. From my favorite documentary filmmaker, Tomer Heymann (known more recently for his works I Shot My Love and The Queen Has No Crown), It Kinda
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gay persons of character: Video: It Kinda Scares Me
Here is a recently released scene from It Kinda Scares Me, a 2001 documentary about a gay drama coach and the troubled boys he teaches. From my favorite documentary filmmaker, Tomer Heymann (known more recently for his works I Shot My Love and The Queen Has No Crown), It Kinda
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: North Korea is no Iran
Iran has an elected President. Iran allows for protests against the government. Iran does not have nuclear weapons and is years away from having the capability to build them.Iran has not declared war with any country. North Korea has a dictator who doesn’t hold elections. North Korea does not allow
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Iran’s 2nd Amendment Right To Nuclear Weapons
If countries are like people and people, regardless of intelligence, have the right to bear arms, even though they can and have killed others, why can’t every country bear nuclear weapons? Either every individual actor, be they person or country, has the right to bear arms or they don’t. Guns
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Nuclear Weapons, Iran, and War
With an all-too-familiar rhythm, the drums of war are sounding. The target? An authoritarian Middle Eastern regime set on acquiring exceptionally destructive weapons. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. This time around the country is Iran, and the weapons allegedly being developed are nuclear. The Israeli government (although
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Politics, Re-Spun on The Rational on Co-op Radio, March 12 Lineup
Politics, Re-Spun is on The Rational on Coop Radio on Monday, March 12, 2012 from 6pm to 7pm with an intriguing lineup! Listen live online or at 102.7fm in the Vancouver area. Here’s the lineup: 1. Dylan Penner will talk with Stephen Elliott-Buckley about the Canadian Boat for Gaza: why,
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Israel Bans Palestinians From Living With Spouses
“Marriages between Jews and citizens of German or kindred blood are forbidden. Marriages concluded in defiance of this law are void, even if, for the purpose of evading this law, they were concluded abroad.” – Nuremburg Laws, September 15 1935, Germany In the United States by the late 1960s all
Continue readingIsrael is NOT Netanyahu: Israeli President Shimon Peres: ‘Under President Obama We Have The Best Relationship On The Issue Of Security’
Netanyahu is a crazy warmongering neocon hawk. He is not Israel, as much as the North American chickenhawks would like you to believe. But while the far-right attacks Obama’s pro-Israel credentials, their sentiments aren’t shared by Israeli President Shimon Peres. Last night, Peres told Charlie Rose that Obama “is a
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Protesters against Israel,
This video encourages thinking, something that some of you who are caught in the spirit of a movement in which you feel included, forget to do.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Netanyahu Comes Shopping
Israeli prime minister Benny Netanyahu is in town and his visit makes plain that he’s not interested in friendly countries supporting Israel, it’s their obedience he’s after. No problem with Steve Harper. The radical fundamentalist religious right is already onside. And when the radical fundamentalist religious rightwinger also happens to
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The chances of an Israeli strike on Iran
As a large caveat, let me first say that I think it is very hard to come up with a reasonable estimate of the chances that Israel, or the US, decided to attack Iran within, say, a year. For the casual analyst like myself, we can read the statements from
Continue readingOminous prediction from Andrew Sullivan re: Netanyahu vs. Obama
I guess it depends on what Andrew means by “get rid of Obama soon”. But I think we know exactly what he means. Shudder. Here’s a prediction. Netanyahu, in league and concert with Romney, Santorum and Gingrich, will make his move to get rid of Obama soon. And he will
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: Why are you protesting against Israel?
What I like about this video is the way in which it brings things down to one question, whose multiple answers are demystified, one by one. Beyond the specific subject of Israel, the video encourages thinking, something that some protesters, caught in…
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: Why are you protesting against Israel?
What I like about this video is the way in which it brings things down to one question, whose multiple answers are demystified, one by one. Beyond the specific subject of Israel, the video encourages thinking, something that some protesters, caught in the spirit of a movement in which they
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: Why are you protesting against Israel?
What I like about this video is the way in which it brings things down to one question, whose multiple answers are demystified, one by one. Beyond the specific subject of Israel, the video encourages thinking, something that some protesters, caught in the spirit of a movement in which they
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Stratfor Just Heating Up #gifiles Israel and Iran
Besides monitoring the Yes Men, Amnesty International, and a swath of international media and activist organizations, Stratfor fancied itself as a superior intelligence agency, better than the FBI anyway. Here’s their Glossary entry for FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation, aka the Downtown Gang. Very good a breaking up used car
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Pushing the Envelope on Palestinian Sovereignty
There has not been much movement of late on the Israeli-Palestinian front. This may partly be explained by the relative lack of violent activity by Palestinian groups. The conflict has dropped off the radar for most of the Israeli public, and the only constituency the government needs to worry about
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Canadian Foreign Policy: Nuance Matters
This video (from April, 2011 before the election) was brought to my attention today. Some thoughts: We should not forget, nor should we let Canadians forget that Stephen Harper lost a seat on the United Nations Security Council, for the first time ever. With the situation in Syria and the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Well, This Is Awkward
Israeli F-16 Showing Seven Syrian Aerial Victories and the Bombing of Iraq’s Osirik Reactor. Iran has warned it may strike pre-emptively in the face of persistent threats of imminent attack by Israeli or the United States’ forces. It sort of sounds like George w. Bush’s reasoning when he
Continue readingBaird lets loose radical Harper anti-Palestinian agenda at UN
The Conservative pit bull brings the hate for Palestinians to the UN, overriding cooler heads left once again on the Harper cutting room floor. No questions asked. Of course the media calls this hate “pro-Israel” sentiment. I don’t think most of the rest of the world would agree. OTTAWA – A Canadian expression of
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