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Peterson: Rev. Jeremiah Wright for President
Blog Post, March, 17 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Characterizing it as character-assassination "in the public sphere because he has preached a social gospel on behalf of oppressed women, children and men in America and around the globe,"
Peterson: Audacity and Hopelessness
Blog Post, March, 16 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Flipping the TV channels this Sunday morning, I passed over something on the FOX News Network that, not surprisingly, was billed as "race and presidential politics."
Cronan jr: All Aboard Amtrak!: Forget About the Fourth Amendment
Blog Post, February, 20 2008
John Cronan jr
Cronan jr's ZSpace page
Looks at Amtrak's latest announcement that it will conduct "random" searches of bags, and more...
Peterson: Questions for the U.S. Presidential Candidates
Blog Post, February, 07 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Numerous questions always come to mind that would be worth asking the rapidly-declining major-party presidential candidates in the States
Street: On the Elections Tomorrow and Politics More Broadly
Blog Post, February, 04 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I’ve been getting a number of e-mail messages pretty much along the following lines: “Dear Paul Street, you intrepid Left political analyst you, I live in a Super Tuesday Primary state and I just don’t know what to do tomorrow. I know you follow ...
Mcgehee: This Just In!
Blog Post, January, 28 2008
Michael Mcgehee
Mcgehee's ZSpace page
more bullshit from the elites
Peterson: There Is No "War on Terror"
Blog Post, January, 21 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
When you stop and take a look at usage of the phrases 'war on terror' and 'war on terrorism' across a great many public records over many years, something curious turns-up:
Street: David Brooks is a Little Slow
Blog Post, January, 04 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
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Markland: Kenya: the new orange revolution
Blog Post, January, 03 2008
Dave Markland
Markland's ZSpace page
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Markland: Kenya: the new orange revolution
Blog Post, January, 03 2008
Dave Markland
Markland's ZSpace page
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Davidson: Make the 2008 Election All About the War
Blog Post, December, 25 2007
Carl Davidson
Davidson's ZSpace page
This is both a discussion and 'How To' Piece on how the left and antiwar movement can relate to the 2008 elections independently of any party.
Street: On Obama and Pathological Tolerance of Criminality
Blog Post, May, 11 2007
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I do not understand our tolerance of imperial arch-criminality. Last night on “public” television I saw Joe Mantegna say that PBS will host Colin Powell in a special Memorial Day concert later this month.. I don't think Colin Powell sings...
Street: On Selection by Lot, Obama, King and the Right Not to be ruled by Narcissistic, Power-Mad Shitheads
Blog Post, March, 19 2007
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
One of the distinguishing features of early Athenian democracy was the “selection by lot” – the random appointment – of ordinary citizens for government offices and courts. One of the ideas behind this practice was very interesting from a radical ...
Peterson: Crimes of Aggression
Blog Post, February, 01 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Something the leadership of no state is willing to face -- but never moreso than in the contemporary United States: The inherent criminality of aggressive war. After taking up...
Street: Obamanable National Narcissism: Hating a War Because it's a Strategic "Mistake" v. Hating it Because it's an Imperial Crime*
Blog Post, November, 21 2006
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I recently dove back into my borrowed copy of presidential candidate Barack Obama's sickening book The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (New York, 2006). Somewhere on this blog I said that I'd be knocking this thing ...
Szczepanczyk: A brief word about the Mark Foley matter
Blog Post, October, 15 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
Szczepanczyk's ZSpace page
I don't want to spend too much time about the Mark Foley scandal in the United States House of Representatives, involving a resigned representative and his electronic communications of an explicit sexual nature with Congressional male pages. The...
Street: Selective War Photography: Worthy and Unworthy Victims
Blog Post, July, 22 2006
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Here is a short piece I did for the excellent radical-democratic newsletter Dissident Voice: “A picture,” the old saying goes, “is worth a thousand words.” When it comes to eliciting support for, or revulsion against, a policy, it is often t...
Peterson: International Criminal Court
Blog Post, March, 22 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
I'm afraid that the International Criminal Court is off to a very bad start indeed. Struggling to get off its institutional butt in the face of its serious and perhaps debilitating rejection by the Americans---having in May, 2002...
Marshall: Time to Burglar-Proof the Elections
Blog Post, November, 07 2005
Lucinda Marshall
The following list of problems with voting machines doesn't present anything particularly new, but it is an excellent summation of the issues involved. Also, here is a link to the latest by Bob Fritrakis and Harvey Wasserstein about the GAO report...
Street: Dominant Media's Selective Morality
Blog Post, April, 01 2005
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Some of this blog's readers may know that I published a piece in Black Commentator last week under the title "Savage Morality: Selective Concern and Dominant Media in an Age of Empire and Inequality (see www.blackcommentator.org/131/131_think_sava...
