Bad & good news roundup for this Monday morning

First the bad news: Israeli Apartheid is doing just great, thank you, and the Olmert regime is enthusiastically pressing ahead with illegal, immoral, plain stupid and Hamas-fostering racist policies. The US government is preparing a special operations command to use against its own population. Now the good news: Some Israelis are really getting fed up with Dubya and his neocon policies Have a great week everybody!

Uri Avnery and Gideon Levy speak up against the Neocon folly

It is a common mistake to think that the US Neocons are somehow concered with the welfare of Israel or the of Israelis. In reality, of course, the Neocons are interested in their own power and they simply realize that by mantrically repeating "Israel! existential threat! anti-Semitism! self-hating Jews! Holocaust!" they can get away with murder, literally. Sadly, there is a Neocon clique in Israel who pretty much uses the same trick. Thus one cannot be blamed for feeling that "the Israelis"...

The Best Children’s Hospital in the World

I was given the grand tour of the new Dell Children's Hospital here in Austin yesterday. The entire thing was paid for by Seton, a private hospital chain here in Texas, Michael Dell, self-made man and a few handfuls of other businesses around town. Not one penny came from the lying, murdering, criminals we call government. I know what you're thinking too, you'd rather be taken care of in a hospital like this Cuban one, as long as you can hire the Sheriff of Nottingham to mug your neighbors,...