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An unlikely alliance

A new issue of Surveillance and Society is out. Xia Yanping (HIE): Memetic Study on Number Three. From Tablet, after 25 years, the CIA has declassified documents that show Jonathan Pollard never spied on the U.S. for Israel; and can an unlikely alliance of renegade rabbis and right-wing politicians strip the ultra-Orthodox of their power? From Moment, Yagil Levy on Israel’s new hierarchy of death: Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, Israeli, Gazan — whose life is least valuable?; and why can’t we show empathy for the Palestinians? From Conservative Battleline, ObamaCare may be the law, but the ObamaCare Resistance Movement has begun. A great example of capitalism with a human face — with a beard, even! — is Garry Kvistad, founder and proprietor of Woodstock Chimes. The introduction to The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy, ed. Eldar Shafir. From The American Reader, Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon reviews The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance Franco “Bifo” Berardi. America's real criminal element: New research finds lead (Pb) is the hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and even the ADHD epidemic — and fixing the problem is a lot cheaper than doing nothing.