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Podur: A kidnapping in Cauca
Blog Post, August, 26 2004
Justin Podur
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I am writing to apologize for taking so long to write back. Readers were writing me asking about my safety. You are too kind. In fact it is not my safety that I am writing about right now. Nor the safety of the Palestinian political prisoners ...
Podur: A kidnapping in Cauca
Blog Post, August, 26 2004
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
I am writing to apologize for taking so long to write back. Readers were writing me asking about my safety. You are too kind. In fact it is not my safety that I am writing about right now. Nor the safety of the Palestinian political prisoners ...
Dunn: EvilDoers & DoGoodgers 3: Historic Origins
Blog Post, August, 26 2004
Andy Dunn
Dunn's ZSpace page
Well, on another tangent concerning duality, an interesting tidbit may be the history and mythology surrounding the subject. I'll start with what I know of the history of absolutist moral dualism in this blog, mythology in the next. (Then I'll get...
Peterson: Torture and "Intelligence" in 2004
Blog Post, August, 26 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
By my count (and please correct me, if I'm mistaken), through this Wednesday in August, 2004, the public realm has been blessed with four official U.S. Government (whether directly or so-called independently, on behalf of an official request) inve...
Dominick: Mediocrity on the Left
Blog Post, August, 25 2004
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
Perhaps the only thing more disappointing than watching liberals sell themselves short and shoot themselves in the proverbial feet is watching self-proclaimed leftists do the same thing. The once-promising United for Peace and Justice organization...
Peterson: "How America Gets Away With Murder" I
Blog Post, August, 25 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
With the military assault on the most resolute faction of the resistance to the American occupation of Iraq approaching some kind of final climax in and around the Imam Ali Mosque in the Old City of Najaf, where the "smell of burnt flesh filled th...
Dominick: Liberals and Mediocrity (or, "Anybody But Kerry")
Blog Post, August, 24 2004
Brian Dominick
Dominick's ZSpace page
It's sort of amazing, if you think about it. One could hardly dream up an incumbent president who would be easier to defeat than George W. Bush, and yet the Democratic Party is getting a run for it's money because it chose one of the least inspiri...
Peterson: "All These Things Happened Among Us" I
Blog Post, August, 24 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
To quote an important UN document from 1993, From Madness to Hope:...Report of the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador (S/25500, April 1, 1993---though released a couple weeks earlier): On Monday, 24 March 1980, the Archbishop of San Salv...
Peterson: "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths"---and the Presidential Campaign
Blog Post, August, 24 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Back in April, the Toledo Blade received the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for its lengthy series of reports "uncovering the atrocities of an elite U.S. Army fighting unit in the Vietnam War that killed unarmed civilians and children...
Chomsky: Civilizing Aristide
Blog Post, August, 23 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
My own judgment, for what it is worth, is that [Aristide] came into office committed to the kind of significant social and economic reform that was called for by his popular constituency in the hills and slums, desperately needed in Haiti. His ...
Chomsky: Attack on Democracy
Blog Post, August, 23 2004
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
The standard doctrine -- preached by Alan Greenspan, any number of economists, and commentators commonly -- that the marvellous "new economy" is a tribute to "entrepreneurial initiative," "consumer choice," and other free market wonders does not s...
Spannos: LAC, Day Three
Blog Post, August, 23 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Today was the closing day of the Life After Capitalism conference. Hundreds of people excited, stimulated and inspired, exhausted came together and are now going their separate ways again. It almost seems sad except I know that this opportunity to...
Peterson: Not on the Dong Cung River
Blog Post, August, 22 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
One feature of the whole Swift Boat Veterans For Truth-slash-Kerry Edwards-slash-Bush Cheney contest over the Democratic Party presidential nominee's distant records of military and anti-war service that I've been enjoying the most has been how li...
Spannos: LAC, Day Two
Blog Post, August, 22 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Well, it's hard to convey all that happened today. It wasn't like lastnights event, "Beyond Bush", where all four speakers were under the sameroof spanning a three hour period. Workshops today had at least three, andup to five, speakers,...
Dominick: Bringing the 'Vietnam Syndrome' Back Home
Blog Post, August, 21 2004
Brian Dominick
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Back in 1990, during the lead-up to the First Gulf War, George H.W. Bush talked about the need for his impending war not to suffer from what pundits called "the Vietnam syndrome." As the fable went, the media and antiwar movement, in cahoots again...
Peterson: The Right to Kill
Blog Post, August, 21 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
In a very short period of time (really, inside just the past week or so), one issue of great importance has irrupted on the American political scene: Much less a contest about the Vietnam War-era record of the Democratic Party's presidential nomin...
Spannos: LAC, Day One: Beyond Bush
Blog Post, August, 21 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Last night Life After Capitalism 2004 kicked off it's three day series with "Beyond Bush", an evening of visionary resistance. This event brought activists and organisers from throughout the US, and world, to begin the week of events pro...
Peterson: The Crap that Fills Americans' Minds
Blog Post, August, 20 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Once again, and for the countless time, Wednesday's release of (what was billed as, anyway) a major survey of American public opinion by the The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press was far more interesting for what it betrayed about t...
Spannos: Architecture of the New Society
Blog Post, August, 20 2004
Chris Spannos
Spannos's ZSpace page
Here is an essay I recently wrote about how cities, architecture and spacial design may evolve within a participatory economy. It was published on ZNet but I wanted to put it here hoping to get feed back. So please feel free to comment....Architec...
Dunn: EvilDoers & DoGooders 2: The Concrete & Abstract
Blog Post, August, 20 2004
Andy Dunn
Dunn's ZSpace page
Much thanks for the response Peeperkorn. I'm afraid I'm only getting a glimpse of what you're conveying about values, though; I'd need the specific example. My academic knowledge on the moral dualism subject is limited--I've read about it sporadicall
