Free Gaza Protest, Seoul

Thanks to a link at The Distant Ocean, I learned that there would be a demonstration today in protest of Israel's murderous attack on the Freedom Flotilla. It took me a while to find it because the Israeli Embassy is not on Embassy Row like the heavily fortified American Embassy a few blocks north, but on the sixteenth floor of an office building owned by one of the big Seoul newspapers.It was

Free Gaza Protest, Seoul

Thanks to a link at The Distant Ocean, I learned that there would be a demonstration today in protest of Israel's murderous attack on the Freedom Flotilla. It took me a while to find it because the Israeli Embassy is not on Embassy Row like the heavily fortified American Embassy a few blocks north, but on the sixteenth floor of an office building owned by one of the big Seoul newspapers.It was

Late-Night Notes

Numerous other people (including me) have quoted this line from Glenn Greenwald's May 31 post, but it's so on-target that I want to spread it a little farther:Just ponder what we'd be hearing if Iran had raided a humanitarian ship in international waters and killed 15 or so civilians aboard.And the only President we've got seems to be deliberately seeking to prove once again that reality outruns

Late-Night Notes

Numerous other people (including me) have quoted this line from Glenn Greenwald's May 31 post, but it's so on-target that I want to spread it a little farther:Just ponder what we'd be hearing if Iran had raided a humanitarian ship in international waters and killed 15 or so civilians aboard.And the only President we've got seems to be deliberately seeking to prove once again that reality outruns