Saturday, February 27, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Germany: Left Party, Greens cancel appearances by historian Norman Finkelstein - '...The first organization to announce that it had canceled Finkelstein’s appearance was the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Just a few days ago, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation also announced it was withdrawing its offer of facilities for Finkelstein to speak. One member of the RLS executive, Heinz Vietze, justified his organization's cancellation of the meeting by arguing that the foundation "had underestimated the political explosiveness" of a lecture by Finkelstein...'
