Better searching on the Internet
The two most popular things people do on the Internet are: (1) search for things and (2) wait for pages to download. The latter is always and the former is often a huge waste of…
How the Internet is changing unions
There is little debate any more about how much the Internet has changed the world — it is now widely understood that the emergence of a global computer communications network is an event comparable to…
Can I help your union?
I have been designing websites since the early 1990s, have worked with Perl, PHP, XHTML, CSS, RSS, JavaScript, etc. The websites I build for unions are low-cost, quick to setup, easy to run and provide…
An end to ‘lost texts’
I can still remember the excitement we felt upon discovering Goldwater’s bookshop on an upper floor of a small office building on east 12th street in New York City.
From Internet to “International” The Role of the Global Computer Communications Network in the Revival of Working Class Internationalism
This paper was presented at the “Marxism on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century” Conference, 18-21 March 1999, Elgersburg, Germany.
The Next War [12]
In Israel these days, everyone is talking about the next war.
Back to the “Sealed Room”: Some thoughts on the alternative to the peace process [11]
I had intended to write this column this week about the various scandals and foul-ups which have troubled the Netanyahu government in recent days. Lots of material was available.
An Open Letter to David Levy [10]
The Honorable David Levy Minister of Foreign Affairs Jerusalem Dear Sir: When you established “Gesher” — which calls itself a “national social movement” — many thought that for the first time in many years we…
Back to the Future: If you liked 1991, you’re in luck [9]
Remember the 1985 film “Back to the Future”? Of course you do. One of the charming elements of that movie was the recreation of an imaginary American town in the year 1955. It cost Hollywood…
Simple Mathematics (Or: How to Bring Down the Netanyahu Government) [8]
A friend of mine on the Israeli Right recently asked me what seemed to him to be a tough question to answer: two months after winning the election, what terrible things has Netanyahu actually done?…