Abe Osheroff on the struggle for a better world

After a recent talk about the struggle for social justice and the threats to the ecosystem, a student lingered, waiting to talk to me alone, as if he had something to confess.

On October 13, 1932, in laying the Supreme Court Building's cornerstone, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes said: "The Republic endures and this is the symbol of its faith." The words "Equal Justice Under Law" adorn its west facade. Facing east is the motto "Justice, the Guardian of Liberty." Since the Court's 1789 establishment, these words belie its decisions, arguments, and "supreme" allegiance to power, not "We the people."

A Satire

While in Britain, France, USA and Argentina the Mossad  enjoys the support of thousands of local Sayanim, Jews who are happy to betray their neighbours for their beloved Jewish state, when operating in Arab countries the Mossad  has to schlep its very many assassins and their assistants using different fraudulent methods.

You’ve seen “ER” and I’ve seen “ER” and I think we can both agree that if bipartisan health care reform were a patient, Doctor Obama would be dejectedly dropping the paddles, ripping off his mask and asking Nurse Pelosi to call it. Oh yeah. Its finished. Done with. Caput. Defunct. Deceased. Extinct. Artifacto. Fuggedaboutit. Game over, man. Part of the vast past tense. Washed up. Down the drain. Sleeping with the fishies.

I’m watching the Tea-Partiers, Glenn Beck and Alex Jones with interest, you see me and people like me are exactly the ones they profess to hate, Liberal Progressives. It makes me chuckle when I hear their complaints.  Allow me to bring up some of their major complaints so we are all on the same page here.

THIS COMING Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Israel will consider an application by a group of Israeli citizens to compel the Interior Ministry to register them as belonging to the “Israeli nation”.

Seventeen Nigerian security officers are reported to have been arrested in the country's north in connection with a series of extra-judicial killings caught on video obtained by media earlier this month.

Scientists have defended their decision to issue a tsunami warning to dozens of countries around the Pacific rim following Saturday's magnitude 8.8 quake in Chile.

Chilean authorities have imposed an overnight curfew in the quake-damaged city of Concepcion in an attempt to prevent looting, after hundreds of people ransacked stores for food.

The United States has temporarily closed its consular office in the Mexican border city of Reynosa after a series of gun battles between drug gangs.

The man picked by China as the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism has been appointed to the country's top legislative advisory body.

An iceberg the size of the European country of Luxembourg has broken off from a glacier in Antarctica in an event that could disrupt ocean circulation patterns around the world, scientists warn.

Four Nato soldiers and at least nine Afghans have been killed in separate attacks across Afghanistan, including a car bomb explosion in the southern province of Kandahar.

At least four people have been killed and dozens more injured after a suicide bomber drove his explosive-laden vehicle into a police station in northwest Pakistan.

Afghan officers will begin to take charge of the prison facility at Bagram, currently run by the US military, from next week.

Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, has told judges presiding over his genocide trial that the Bosnian wars during the 1990s were "just and holy".

At least 53 people have been killed after a devastating storm lashed France and four other countries in western Europe over the weekend.

An al-Qaeda double agent who killed seven American intelligence operatives in a suicide attack on a base in Afghanistan has appeared in a video calling for a "jihad" against Jordan.

Iraqis in Baghdad and Mosul have protested a recent wave of attacks on their minority religious communities, following the murder of eight Christians in less than two weeks.

Iran's most prominent rebel Sunni movement, Jundullah, has named a new leader to replace Abdolmalek Rigi, following his capture by security forces earlier this week.

British police officers are in Israel to investigate the use of fake UK passports in the recent murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas leader, in Dubai.

Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court has authorised the sale of Egyptian gas to Israel, overruling a previous verdict by a lower court. 

The president of embattled Japanese carmaker Toyota is to speak in China about the company's safety woes.

Canada's Winter Olympics have officially come to an end, with central Vancouver turned into a gigantic party zone for flag-waving Canadians and other revellers.