Working Life

  Bat-shit crazy, right-wing wingbats stop denying the holocaust so that they can liken it to federally funded health care.    

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   I’m going to ask for your indulgence for another moment–but this is just an important and personal issue to me. A week ago, I wrote about Jimmy Carter’s meeting with representatives of Hamas. Carter had a simple idea: you only make peace with your enemies and you can only make peace when you talk […]

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   A momentary reflection away from what I usually write about. Every day that Jimmy Carter continues his works of peace and humanitarian outreach justifies the day that I cast my first vote in a presidential election for him some…okay, a lot of years ago. His recent foray to establish another line of communication with […]

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As I prepare to leave Israel Monday (so this space may have a one-day break for the long flight home), can’t help but relate last night’s/early morning today’s episode. Headed back to my place here at 11:45 p.m. to run right into a massive shutdown of the entire highway system of the central part of […]

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Yesterday afternoon, I met with about a dozen Arab Israeli journalists in Nazareth to get a feel for what they face as part of an effort to create a more solid union presence in the area for all journalists. First, a definition: these journalists are Israeli citizens and do not, as a rule, work in […]

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I’ve been in the Middle East for the past week meeting with Israeli journalists (today I’ll be sitting down with Arab journalists in Nazareth). The wonders of the free market have infected labor relations here, too. It used to be that Israeli journalists were paid via a collective agreement that was set through the semi-government […]

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