Being troubled by patriotic zealotry and glorification of war, I feel vaguely discomforted by Remembrance Days, particularly when craven politicians take centre stage at memorials. While struggling to find words that conveyed […]
Heroes and victims
We share responsibility
“…we actually share some responsibility for those deaths because, for us, it is no priority whatever, to stop it. Our United Nations, our Government, our World is not that interested…” Jon Snow […]
Has Edward Snowden already gained victory?
From Jay Rosen’s Press Think, Edward Snowden, meet Jeff Bezos: “…It’s not enough to defy the government and reveal what it wants to keep secret. When you go up against the most […]
Five Myths of Terrorism
From Michael Shermer, monthly columnist for Scientific American, a respected science magazine founded in 1845. Link to Dr. Shermer’s complete article, Five Myths of Terrorism. It is worth reading, particularly if you wonder […]
We’re "fed a constant stream of journalistic pap"
One of the most significant articles you’ll read anytime is by John Naughton, professor of the public understanding of technology at the Open University, published in The Observer, July 28, 2013: Without […]
We can help
As a journalist, Jody Paterson often wrote about Canadian children and families. Now, she and partner Paul Willcocks do humanitarian work in Honduras through Cuso International. One of their projects assists forty […]
Who buys after the last job is outsourced?
Our current home renovation project put us back in the market for major appliances. That brought to mind a 2010 piece, providing my view of Maytag, a once successful manufacturer that lost […]
The .01% wages war on the rest
From Robert Borosage, Campaign for America’s Future, March 29, 2012: In 2010, as the economy began its slow recovery from the Great Recession, a new study shows the richest 1 percent of […]
A message from Amnesty International
Shell: Own Up and Pay Up to Clean Up the Niger Delta Dear Supporter, There used to be life and hope in the Niger Delta town of Bodo, a village filled with […]
Willing to help with the oil resource curse
http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3523697345-audio-player.swf Aljazeera, US troops to help Uganda fight rebels “US President Barack Obama has announced he is deploying 100 “combat-equipped” troops to Uganda to help efforts against rebels of the Lord’s Resistance […]
Taking action when business is slow…
“The FBI has received substantial criticism over the past decade — much of it valid — but nobody can deny its record of excellence in thwarting its own Terrorist plots. “Time and […]
Killing machines have no conscience
Is there irony in America’s rush to deploy drones and remote controlled weaponry around the world? From Joseph Nevins at the Boston Review, Robocop: In September 2010 the House Unmanned Aerial Vehicles […]
Cluster bombs on aisle 4, torture gear on 3
British Defence Minister Liam Fox is proud of U.K. arms traders. He welcomed dealers and customers from around the world to the 2011 Defence and Security Equipment (DSEi) arms fair in London. […]
Fueling jihadist sentiment
The Terrorism Issue That Wasn’t Discussedby Gareth Porter, CommonDreams.org In the commentary on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the news and infotainment media have predictably framed the discussion by the question of […]
Spreading democracy by atrocity
Rolling Stone, iconic magazine of pop culture, presents a shocking Special Report, The Kill Team. …While the officers of 3rd Platoon peeled off to talk to a village elder inside a compound, […]
They don’t need us anymore
Harold Meyerson, an American journalist and opinion columnist, was named one of “the most influential commentators in the nation” by the Atlantic Monthly in 2009. Editor-at-large of The American Prospect, he wrote […]
Topicality is an illusion
Actor, director, writer, producer Jonathan Lynn is one of those Brits who thinks he can do almost anything in the entertainment business. And, in more than 40 years, he’s pretty much done […]
More Afghanistan, more of the same
I can’t improve on the reporting of ProPublica so click on the link and read Frustration Abounds With Afghan Army, Police Force.
And, the winner is . . .
KABUL, Sept. 20 — The big winner in the fraud-ridden, never-ending Afghanistan elections is turning out to be a party not even on the ballot: the Taliban. A stream of revelations about […]
Not out of sight, not out of mind
Afghanistan is a conflict that can no longer be out of sight or out of mind. Bill Moyers made that statement to Americans but it is apt in this country with the […]
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