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Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments
Week [19]66 – World Cup Fever
By Jody Mcintyre These days, I don’t like football as much as I used to. It must be the first time in my life that I haven’t experienced the feeling of excitement and suspense as the World Cup explodes into action. With England’s first game up against the USA, I had no choice but to go […]
Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Sunday, June 6, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments
[SPECIAL EDITION] Week 65 – How Many More?
By Jody Mcintyre Saturday 5th June 2010, outside the Israeli Embassy at a demonstration of 20,000 people, London: “Five months ago, I was sitting on the beach in Gaza, watching the waves of the Mediterranean lapping onto the shore. If I was to return to Gaza today, the sea would be tinged red, with the blood […]Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Wednesday, June 2, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments
Week 64 – A Different Reality
By Jody Mcintyre As I was sitting on the steps of my close friend Fifi’s house in Catford, south east London, at around 1.30am, a man walked past asking for a cigarette. Fifi politely obliged. He came and sat down on the floor next to us, and Glen, as he introduced himself, turned out to live […]Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Sunday, May 23, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments
Week 63 – Telling The Truth
By Jody Mcintyre Returning to London, without any plans to think of, apart from reading books and taking down quotes which may come to some use in the future, has been a chance for me to reflect back on what I can only describe as a life-changing eighteen months. If one thing is for certain, I […]Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Saturday, May 8, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments
Week 62 – Talking About Dialogue
By Jody Mcintyre I think me and Kareem were both expecting to come across a barrage of Zionist questioners at every Norman Finkelstein event we spoke at, but it seems that times are changing; for the first half of the tour, such dissent was non-existent. We had to wait until the University of Arizona on May […]Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Saturday, May 1, 2010 12:00 - 1 Comment
Week 61 – “Are You Brothers?”
By Jody Mcintyre When I landed at Newark airport, plenty of uncertainty still hung in the air. I hadn’t yet met Norman Finkelstein, whose book tour I was supposed to be speaking on, and none of the universities hosting the events had actually booked me. As I was a last minute addition, no transport had been […]Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Tuesday, April 6, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments
Week 60 – Family Roots
By Jody Mcintyre Nine long months away, in which time I could’ve otherwise had a baby, were coming to an end, but not before a quick stop off in Beirut, meeting up with Lowkey, DJ The Last Skeptik and Shadia Mansour, and where I stayed with my Great Auntie Suzie. She told me about a time […]Blogs, Ceasefire Bites, Politics - Friday, April 2, 2010 2:30 - 1 Comment
In praise of (some) Israeli journalism
Today’s edition of the perennially essential, always excellent Electronic Intifada website carries a great interview with a brave voice of Israeli journalism, Haaretz reporter Gideon Levy. The interview conveys Levy’s trademark stoic timbre and his matter-of-factly excavations and denunciations of human tragedies and horrors. A must-read from start to finish, a couple of samples: On the role […]Ideas, Science - Thursday, March 18, 2010 4:28 - 4 Comments
Open Source: the future of science?
By Sebastian Meznaric The recent scientific crisis around climate research data leaks has greatly damaged the credibility and respect usually accorded the scientific community. The collected global temperature data was the subject of statistical analysis where the scientists in question used a “trick” to conceal certain decreases in the temperatures measured. The “trick” apparently went […]
