Reality According To Bush
By John McDonald05/27/2005
Some months back, a Bush administration operative told a New York Times Reporter something like “We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.”
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The Nuclear Option's Bipartisanship-Busting Bright Side
By Dennis Fox05/17/2005
The Senate's so-called nuclear option seems likely to go into effect in the next few days. That would end the filibuster as a means of blocking majority action, at least in terms of judicial nominations. Despite the likely outcome -- swifter and more certain approval of George Bush's choices to turn the judicial clock backward a century or so -- the apocalyptic terminology is a bit overblown. Sure, the prospect of the majority Republicans running things single-handedly even beyond judicial appointments is scary, but what we've got today is already pretty scary. Indeed, maybe eroding the bipartisan middle is good thing.
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Intelligently Designed Education
By Dennis Fox05/17/2005
The effort across the country to insert creationism into public school biology classes continues. Replacing the term "creationism" with "intelligent design" and avoiding direct identification of God as the intelligent designer do little to hide the motivation of conservative Christians to inoculate our children against Darwinian evolutionary theory. Biology teachers are up in arms, school board candidates fight about it, and all good-thinking liberals and humanists are appalled.
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Yale Targets David Graeber
By Dennis Fox05/13/2005
The latest assault on radical professors comes at Yale, this time targeting anarchist anthropology professor David Graeber. There's a petition started by Graeber's students to appeal the non-renewal of his contract. And there's plenty to read by Graeber himself on the web, including this criticism of police action targeting anti-globalization protesters and a useful article he wrote with Andrej Grubacic, Anarchism, or The Revolutionary Movement of the 21th Century.
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Law and Justice in Israel and Palestine
By Dennis Fox05/11/2005
The Palestinian Authority is already confronting one of the challenges likely to complicate any future state of Palestine: How to emerge from the chaos of occupation to create a functioning, orderly society. Palestinian law schools explicitly seek to produce a cadre of lawyers trained to modernize the overlapping and contradictory systems of law and tradition that now constrain Palestinian life. But I wonder: Will new Palestinian law reflect the needs of the Palestinian majority, or merely those of the business class and political elites? Will everyday injustice be more bearable when imposed by Palestinians rather than by Israelis?
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Globalization: A specter or a Saving grace?
By Alexander Rai05/07/2005
A New World Order looms over the destiny of men today. The trials and tribulations of the Old World have shown mankind that ideologies are immaterial.
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Bush's Big Lie
By Robert Adler05/06/2005
" . . . the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy."
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Opinion and Sensationalism: A portrait of nations
By Alexander Rai05/05/2005
"I speak in the name of the entire German people when I assure the world that we all share the honest wish to eliminate the enmity that brings far more costs than any possible benefits... It would be a wonderful thing for all of humanity if both peoples would renounce force against each other forever. The German people are ready to make such a pledge."
Adolf Hitler - 14th October 1933
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