London gets attacked, again
This is really sad. London has been attacked another time. This time the damage is smaller, as are casualties, but it’s still sad to see what’s going on. Terrorists figure if they keep on attacking,...
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Writes the Economist about the London bombings: Mr. Blair’s blank refusal to acknowledge a possible link to Iraq is wrong. But so what if there was one? Those who would go on to conclude that the right...
View ArticleHomeland Security, or the Department of Peace?
I really have been so caught up in my own nonsense that I haven’t even deeply parsed and analyzed what has gone on since the feds fumbled dealing with the Katrina approach and aftermath, but I will say...
View ArticleBill Moyers speaks The Truth: The New American Political Movement is Religion
This is one of the best articles I’ve read in a long, long while. Bill Moyers elucidates the religious and moral situation of the United States with a clarity simply not found elsewhere. Here is an...
View ArticleThe Humanity
Check out this interesting table about world views on torture over at the BBC. Notice how the best scores are in Spain, France, and Italy (where more than 80% find the practice of human torture...
View ArticleEmbarassed to be an American
Following up on the torture table from my last post, today I read two of the most engrossing and depressing articles I’ve ever read, about detainees tortured by the US Government, using cruel and...
View ArticleConversation on Torture with Doomsy
Been having a cross-blog discussion with Doomsy over at the Liberal Doomsayer about our recent crimes torturing detainees, as widely reported in NYTimes and on Alternet. A follow-up to this post from...
View ArticleFalwell Never Apologized
Jerry Falwell died today. He was a great preacher, a wonderful father, a … oh, who the fuck am I kidding? The guy was an evil, intolerant man, who called the Civil Rights Movement the “Civil Wrongs...
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