(see 10 for introduction) 7 next For Thursday's Capital Times , John Nichols reworked his latest Nation On-Line Beat entry, which topped Common Dreams' list Wednesday. The subject was the thwarting of a church's attempt to celebrate inclusiveness. I'm attempting to...
(see 10 for introduction) 8 next Good news out of Madison, "progressive" bellwether John Nichols has rung out November with "Accenture pact a boneheaded move." The streak lives, still no mention of "Israel" this year, 101 columns down, nine to go. If John does...
local to 9 express to 7 The 9/11 Commission Report, issued in July, recommends that the U.S. "should offer an example of moral leadership in the world, committed to treat people humanely, abide by the rule of law..." It notes that "it is a simple fact that American...
It's not surprising that people are thinking of '60s protest music. Juan Cole draws attention to what happened at a Colorado high school talent show when a group tried to perform Dylan's "Masters of War". Pepe Escobar is also thinking Dylan. Meanwhile, I've been...
At Commondreams, Ira Chernus explains how the '60s prepared us to live with the fact that we will never, ever know for sure who was behind the 9/11 attacks. Whoops, I had always thought the counterculture's primary message was never, ever eat fried food. Are we to...
In addition to Ed Kihane's Plea for the Abducted Iraqi and Italian Bridges to Baghdad aid workers, Voices in the Wilderness has posted a Bridges to Baghdad collection which includes a link to freeourfriends.blogspot which has a petition to sign and a statement of...
The Forward of August 27 has an interesting pairing of op-ed pieces. In the first, the Jewish weekly expresses its dismay re the Bush administration's approval of a new Israel settlement construction project. The approval comes at a time when Israel's attorney general...
I was watching TV the other night and saw a new episode of the Verizon Wireless commercial, you know the one I mean, a guy with a cell phone at his ear repeatedly asks "Can you hear me now?" as he moves from spot to spot in the swamp, or desert, or city. And now, or...
Zbigniew Brzezinski points to two Bush administration "blunders" which have "precipitate[d] the increasingly intense hatred for the US, not only in the Middle East but in the Islamic world at large." In both instances, it "adopted a stance that was not only unilateral...
Over the weekend of August 12-13, 2000, as the delegates to the Democratic National Convention gathered in Los Angeles, the US and the UK conducted two airstrikes against the southern Iraq town of Samawa. Two people were killed and 19 injured in the first, in which...
