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Philadelphia High School for Girls my memories 40 years on
Contributed by : Carol Gould London I have been reading with great interest Allison ...
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Our Nightmare Day in Mayfair London 911
Contributed by : Carol Gould 24th Septembwer 2011LondonAs I languish in homesickness on this day of the fortieth reunion of the graduating class of 1971 I offer to our readers the essay I composed for the Reunion Committee : my memories of the turbulent world events of 1967-1971. It is so hard to make non-Americans and even non-Philadelphians understand the sisterhood that lasts a lifetime ...
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First it was the Big Society Now its the Broken Society
Contributed by : Carol Gould (First published February 20, 2011)LondonWhen I was a very little girl my mother used to say to my sister and me that ...
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Can one still give Barack Obama the benefit of the Doubt
Contributed by : Carol Gould London'...What does David Cameron have to offer but divisive and crude rhetoric? How dare he call this remarkable nation broken and sick? Millions of citizens like me are penniless and sick because of criminal bankers and endowment and pension providers giving us a pittance after twenty-five years of loyal investment....'16 August 2011Selma was ...
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July 10th Carol Gould Jonathan Freedland Omar Barghouti and Seni Seneviratne at the 2011 South Bank Literature Festival...
Contributed by : Carol Gould The article below was published in December 2010. As the USA gets closer to default I reject claims by conservative commentators that the present crisis arises from the Obama adninistration's action or inaction. Though I will acknowledge that Franklin Roosevelt was a consummate politician who knew how to commandeer support from Republicans, which Obama ...
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Fawlty Towers Lives in Eastbourne
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonIn my previous article I recounted the bizarre experiences I had in Eastbourne on my first UK holiday in five years. I would like now to turn to even more bizarre events during my visit as well as some unpleasant encounters in London. No sooner had I arrived in the coastal town than I discovered that my sunglass frames had come apart. The following day I ...
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Egypt Tunisia Lebanon...my thoughts from 2001
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonI live in parallel universes. There is the universe of my sister and of my American friends and huge family spread across the United States who provide me with accounts of opera, ballet, theatre, church organ and concert performances they have attended in various cities. Then I go to Press TV to talk about the revolutions in the Middle East and Gulf and ...
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Hitler and Stalin Had no TV or Internet
Contributed by : Carol Gould The Westminster Media Forum Policy Seminar: Ethnicity and the Media: January 31, 2007Report and Comment by Carol ...
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Is the British Jewish Community in Danger
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonI am ashamed I ever called myself a 'conservative' commentator. When is the Tory government going to stop obsessing on benefit claimants and start creating the 'New Society?' Franklin Delano Roosevelt did exactly the opposite: he created tens of thousands of jobs through TVA, NRA and WPA and never, ever made people on benefit feel they ...
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This Heartless British Government
Contributed by : Carol Gould I have it up to the eye teeth with Jewish and Zionist friends and correspondents writing in hysterical tones to me ...
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A Young Man So Full of Hate
Contributed by : Carol Gould London Whether or not the effects of the BP explosion and subsequent environmental disaster were overblown (the British media are saying it was) it is to me of importance to register the level of America-hatred that spewed forth at the height of the crisis. What is also astonishing is the lack of sympathy the British media have for the still-scarred folks who ...
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Did America Destroy the British Empire
Contributed by : Carol Gould In October 2008 the BBC became embroiled in a controversy over the live broadcast of lewd phonecalls made by Russell Brand ( he who so enraged American audiences when he hosted an LA awards show) and Jonathan Ross to the actor Andrew sachs. In the course of the broadcast Brand boasted of a sexual encounter with the actor's granddaughter.The British ...
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Claire Foxs Schools Conference on the War on Terror
Contributed by : Carol Gould In the wake of risng anti-Americanism because of the BP crisis and the desire of American senators to interview Scottish officials about the release of Lockerbie terrorist Abdelbaset ali al Megrahi, here are some thoughts from last Christmas.LondonOn Christmas Day I spent lunch and tea listening to a long discourse about the demise of the British Empire. For ...
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Simon Schama and the Dark Side of America
Contributed by : Carol Gould Image: Chef Gary Rhodes and a member of the public*******************My enduring memory of ...
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If home for the UK Olympics team is a military base whither the Americans
http://www.pajamasmedia.com .London May 31, 2010Not a week goes by in Great Britain that there ...
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Carol Gould on Yvonne Ridleys The Agenda
Contributed by : Carol Gould London As September came to a close Lord Heseltine, the man who held high office under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, appeared on the popular BBC primetime television program Question Time and promptly made a pronouncement that floored me.The show had been focusing on ...
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The Fellowship of Life Support
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonSeptember marks the seventieth anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. Throughout the month there are commemorations connected with the momentous events that marked the beginning of a war that eventually saw fifty million souls lose their lives. On September 20, just under the window where I sit writing this piece, a Spitfire flew over central London ...
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This month decided the fate of Humanity
Contributed by : Carol Gould This is a Seminal Moment in the History of an ancient Civilizationby Carol GouldJune 24th, 2009I cannot help thinking of how much my late mother, a lifetime political activist, would have been glued to her television watching the momentous events in Iran unfolding as June, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein song ...
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A Dozen Terror Suspects Go Free
LondonDuring the past month the British Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, has been embroiled in a scandal involving the purchase by her husband of pornographic films; the media have grabbed onto this story with glee because it is an engaging distraction from the horrendous credit crisis and other world calamities. Because the films were acquired on an expense account she promised to repay Her ...
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In Defence of American Jewry
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonOn March 11th, the fifth anniversary of the Muslim terror attacks on Madrid I found in my Inbox an excited email from a Palestinian group urging Americans to wake up -- ...
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An Important Conference in London
Contributed by : Carol Gould 8th March 2009LondonI nearly fell of my chair as the Jewish Sabbath came in on Friday 6th March, having just read my esteemed colleague Michael ...
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Is Caryl Churchill anti-Semitic
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonOn 21 February 130 delegates from 40 countries took part in a British government-backed conference of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism (ICCA ). On 22 February this coalition, also known as the London Conference on anti-Semitism, convened by a group whose majority was non-Jewish, issued a statement acknowledging that the scourge ...
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Manners Died a Long time Ago
Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonDuring the recent Gaza conflict and in its aftermath it has been open season on Israel across the globe. From a synagogue in Caracas to a Jewish member of my local community in London being set upon by anti-Semitic thugs, there has been a wave of anti-Jewish sentiment that goes beyond criticism of ...
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My Iranian Television Debut
Contributed by : Carol Gould London 5 January 2009I attended the Hate Israel Rally held in ...
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Wear Your Poppy with Pride
Contributed by : Carol Gould London3 November 2008Those outside the United Kingdom will be blissfully unaware of a news story that knocked everything else off the front pages of British newspapers this week: two of the ...
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