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February 21, 2009

These are my links for February 17th through February 21st:

Recession grows interest in seeds, vegetable gardening – USATODAY.com –
Fix-It Nation: In Tough Times, Tailors and Cobblers Thrive – TIME – Don't throw all your shoes at your nearest available statesman! Some of those still have some life in them
Mashahed, "Egyptian Workers Strike against Fertilizer Export to Israel" – English translation of a short piece about Egyptian workers striking against a company that was exporting fertilizer to Israel
Right Wing Sweeps Israel – Juan Cole on the death of the two-state solution
State of the Internet: Top Technorati Searches, Feb. 9, 2009 – Juan Cole attempts to parse the top Technorati searches.
Missing Mexican island fuels mystery – "a force of nature (able to sink an island) does not take place without anyone noticing, and much less so when it is sitting in an area with more than 22 billion barrels of oil reserves."

These are my links for January 29th:

Ezbet Abed Rabbo area: Remnants of houses and soldiers’ presence – There’s no polite way to put it—these people are assholes
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: The Obama Era: Arab hopes or Illusions –
‘Draculas’ get their teeth back into lucrative Gaza tunnel operation – “It’s the Israelis who made us need the tunnels, and that’s the real tragedy, that they’ve created this situation where people can capitalize on disaster.”
Daily News Egypt – RAILWAY WORKERS’ STRIKE PARALYSES MAJOR TRANSPORT ARTERY – It’s always good to see people breaking out of their craft-union ghettos to organize on the basis of industry (in this case, railroad switchmen working with train drivers)
Pew: Almost half of Americans want to live somewhere else – USATODAY.com – I guess this isn’t entirely surprising, but interesting nonetheless. I’d love to see a similar survey around people’s jobs.
Egyptians travel to US-Mexico border | Middle East | Jerusalem Post – A little something for you border activism folks

These are my links for January 26th through January 28th:

Radical Indian group ‘plotted Hindu state’ – The National Newspaper – Great two great nut-job chauvinist anti-muslim “states” on Palestinian land. Yeah, that’s gonna work.
Bushama Speaks: Pitfalls of Economism – A great skewering of the praise that was heaped upon Obama for his appearance on al-Arabiya
LRB · Henry Siegman: Israel’s Lies – Another good article for unpacking Israel’s hasbara
الكشف عن تورط ضباط من الأجهزة السابقة ومن “فتح” بتقديم تفصيلات للاحتلال خلال الحرب – Knowledgeable sources report that leaders of Fatah security forces provided intelligence to occupation forces in a list of targets “deserving of bombing”, including mosques and medical facilities. “The sources pointed out…that much of the information submitted was inaccurate information, and was aimed in part at taking revenge on Hamas.” The Palestinian Interior Ministry said it had arrested tens of those who had informed on the resistance.
Mexico City vows to green garbage dumps – but what happens to the garbage-pickers?
Print Article: Internet is big and has a carbon footprint to match – The internet’s carbon footprint—nothing to shake a memory stick at.