Today is Ethnic Cleansing Day in America. Or it would have been if a federal judge had not temporarily barred Arizona from enforcing parts of its Draconian immigration law. The law would turn undocumented immigrants into something like prey in Arizona, and other states plan to follow suit. If Arizona has its way it will [...]
Read More...The gaping disconnect between newspaper and television journalism is on full display in the WikiLeaks Afghanistan war controversy. Television, and cable news in particular, would have us believe that the story is about posting 90,000 documents on the Internet and not what the documents themselves say. Television would have us believe that the Pentagon’s outrage [...]
Read More...Keeping your spirits up these days may mean turning your television off. The alternative is to be water-boarded by dire warnings about disease and the consequences of taking drugs to combat them, deficits, failing banks, Wall Street casino, and every other manner of disquieting infotainment. The alternative is, in fact, to be entertained to death. [...]
Read More...(Deserted Memory, Christine and Dominique Fasse, 77 Books, UK, 2010) “The future may not be completely unknown to us.” These are the concluding words of Deserted Memory on the back cover of an extraordinary collaboration of father and daughter portraying a colonial Algeria that refuses historical segmentation. The words suggest that the bell cannot be [...]
Read More...What is the business of the United States, to assure peace, prosperity and a bright future for its people—or to make war? Are we the United States of America or War Inc.? Do we the people govern ourselves or do paid stooges govern in behalf of bankers? Since World War II we have been more [...]
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