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Street: Carlos Beltran v. the People of South Asia: Radio Reflections on American Compassion
Blog Post, January, 01 2005
Paul Street
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I recently spent 5 evening hours on U.S. Interstate Highway 80, the semi-trailer-packed “main street of America.” Meanwhile, people in Indonesia, Thailand, India, and Sri Lanka were experiencing the worst natural human disaster to take place in a...
Podur: New Year's Eve 2004: It ain't over yet
Blog Post, January, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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Let's take a look at the past year. I was looking back over my files on Colombia for the past year, trying to put together an article about it. Just write some straight history. Colombia's seen a mixed year. Brutal paramilitary violence, to be su...
Podur: New Year's Eve 2004: It ain't over yet
Blog Post, January, 01 2005
Justin Podur
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Let's take a look at the past year. I was looking back over my files on Colombia for the past year, trying to put together an article about it. Just write some straight history. Colombia's seen a mixed year. Brutal paramilitary violence, to be su...
Spannos: Western Governments can do more to help tsunami victims
Blog Post, December, 30 2004
Chris Spannos
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Like many others I have been shocked and horrified by the current tragedy that has struck hundreds of thousands throughout Asia. I have a hard time comprehending the scale of the disaster, and indeed it grows day by day. I have to say that I could...
Podur: 886,000 black people died unnecessarily - in the world's wealthiest country - from 1991-2000
Blog Post, December, 28 2004
Justin Podur
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This story came from the LiP people who do a 'media picks' weekly mailing. You have heard of the Lancet study that conservatively estimates that the US killed 100,000 in Iraq. You have heard of the UN figures that suggested in 1996 that excess mo...
Podur: 886,000 black people died unnecessarily - in the world's wealthiest country - from 1991-2000
Blog Post, December, 28 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
This story came from the LiP people who do a 'media picks' weekly mailing. You have heard of the Lancet study that conservatively estimates that the US killed 100,000 in Iraq. You have heard of the UN figures that suggested in 1996 that excess mo...
Chomsky: More on the Draft
Blog Post, December, 27 2004
Noam Chomsky
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One is the system that the military preferred after the debacle with a citizen's army in Vietnam, the first time an imperial power used a citizen's army to fight a colonial war: what's called a "volunteer army," which in effect amounts mostly to a...
Chomsky: Freedom: a moral hypothesis
Blog Post, December, 27 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Is it a claim, or a thesis that is put forth as a kind of null hypothesis -- something that it is morally right to accept unless there is evidence against it? I think the latter. Thus take a debate about slavery, or women's rights. If Jones c...
Chomsky: Public Expense & Private Profit
Blog Post, December, 27 2004
Noam Chomsky
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For computers, the period from development to commercially viable sales was about 30 years (depending on how you count). For the internet, it was also about 30 years within the state system before it was handed over, by a process that remains obs...
Street: Bush's Christmas Budget: Guns Over Butter
Blog Post, December, 24 2004
Paul Street
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Tomorrow morning and afternoon, I expect, George and Laura and mom and fellow war criminal Dad and the twins and Jeb and the rest of the misbegotten hyper-aristocratic and necrophyilic Bush brood will open presents and enjoy a sumptous meal prepar...
Street: "There's Nothing You Can Do"
Blog Post, December, 23 2004
Paul Street
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It's always nice to hear that considerable numbers of Americans tell nice and progressive things to public opinion pollsters. But when I see the happy data showing that the United States populace supports peace, justice, and democracy, not emp...
Albert: A Sporting Revolution: The Parecon Hockey League
Blog Post, December, 20 2004
Michael Albert
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I reeived this in Email. It is a short essay by Kim Peterson. Relevant here, more so than on the main site, I think. Up to now, there is no National Hockey League (NHL) fare for ice hockey aficionados. The public NHL players and behind-the-scenes...
Chomsky: Bakunin, the death penalty & seeds of the future
Blog Post, December, 20 2004
Noam Chomsky
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Bakunin's point was, I think, pretty simple. Within the larger society, it is possible to build structures that capture hopes for the future. For example, free schools, or self-managed cooperatives (like South End press, or worker-run factories ...
Chomsky: Vietnam then, Iraq today
Blog Post, December, 20 2004
Noam Chomsky
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We can learn a lot from what happened in Vietnam. Protest was very slow in developing. By the time it reached a significant scale in 1967, the highly respected (and rather hawkish) military historian and Vietnam specialist Bernard Fall was won...
Chomsky: US-UK relations
Blog Post, December, 16 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The general contours are pretty clear. The US effectively displaced Britain as world-dominant power during World War II, quite consciously -- there were mini-wars going on right through the conflict, and they continued afterwards, often in ugly w...
Chomsky: The Draft
Blog Post, December, 16 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
My guess is that the Bush administration planners will not call for a draft. The military command, and the civilian leadership, learned an important lesson in Vietnam: you can't expect a citizen's army to fight a vicious, brutal colonial war. ...
Street: The Manly Scent of The Hummer
Blog Post, December, 16 2004
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I know a young lady in Chicago who has a curious reaction whenever she sees a HUMMER while driving in the city: she raises her middle finger and screams "go to Hell you rich gas-guzzling imperialist pig" at the top of her lungs. She's about 5 fo...
Pandya: Seamless Transitions
Blog Post, December, 15 2004
Cp Pandya
Pandya's ZSpace page
Quick note from Corporate World about one politician's seamless transition into the drug world. It doesn't get more slimy than this folks. It's quite an endearing tale, actually; one that will surely reverberate in the halls of infamy: It's a sto...
Street: "To Counter the Enemy's Perception Management"
Blog Post, December, 14 2004
Paul Street
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Today's prize for bad Orwellian prose goes to chief Pentagon spokesman, Lawrence Di Rita. "In the battle of perception management, where the enemy is clearly using the media to help manage perceptions of the general public," Di Rita says in today...
Podur: Gaza Explosion
Blog Post, December, 13 2004
Justin Podur
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Media will dutifully be reporting the deaths of five Israeli soldiers -- though some media are calling them simply 'Israelis', not specifying that they are soldiers -- in a Palestinian armed attack at a military checkpoint in Rafah. Israelis have...
