Yesterday’s Democracy Now on Pacifica was excellent. Jose Ramos Horta, the hero of the East TImorese resistance, was talking about suddenly becoming an “insider”, attending the WEF meetings, and learning all the nuances about “the other”. Unfortunately, Jaggi Singh kept interrupting him. The anti-globalization crowd needs to ball gag that kid and lock him in [...]
From 1961 to 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote an annual assement of the state of civil rights for The Nation. Today, the magazine featured this column where he discusses the progress made in Alabama: Are demonstrations of any use, some ask, when resistance is so unyielding? Would the slower processes of legislation and law [...]
Huey Freeman made the cover of the new issue of The Nation. Huey, if you haven’t seen Boondocks, is a ‘toon. Huey’s one of the few people in the media, real or fictional, asking questions about the War on Terrorism.
Hitchens echoing my increasing frustration with how we are prosecuting the war on terror: [ John Walker ] has illuminated the utter unfitness of our police and intelligence chiefs for the supreme power they now wish and propose to award themselves. And he has also accidentally exposed the stupidity and nastiness of the Patriot Act. [...]
Here’s something Dave and I agree on: Russ Feingold should be president.
The Nation’s put together an index page for all their articles and editorials on the WTC/Pentagon attacks, as well as related articles from their archives.
This is a rather long entry, which starts in one place and ends in another, so hold off on the flames until you read the whole thing. Noam Chomsky replies to Christopher Hitchens’ op-eds on The Nation’s web site from the past couple of weeks. Hitchens called Chomsky out for comparing the WTC attack to [...]
Phil Agre collected hundreds of URLs related to the WTC/Pentagon attacks. All the URLs are now archived in one place.
Christopher Hitchens has been berating fellow leftists (I suppose present company is included) for even thinking that the WTC/Pentagon attacks had anything to do with what the US has done in the Middle East. Let’s pause a moment to appreciate Mr. Hitchens in action. And this is precisely, now, our problem. The Taliban and its [...]
Don’t let the Conservatives hijack notions of pride and patriotism in the next few weeks. When people want to sing something American and patriotic start a rousing chorus of “This Land is Your Land”.
The cover of the 1 October issue of The Nation.
Wise counsel from Senator Russ Feingold in today’s Online Beat. “These are the moments that are the greatest tests of our commitment to Constitutional liberties,” says Feingold, who heads the Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “The worst thing that we could do to reward our enemies is to compromise our commitment to civil [...]
[ via Cyn Gonsalves ] Madison’s own John Nichols edits a web log version of his “The Beat” column for The Nation.
“It’s often hard to discern the difference between Texas Tough and Texas Stupid.” — Ivins considers the Jeffords exit.
[ via Red Rock Eater ] Fugeddahabout KSFO and trash talking conservative radio hosts. You can be your own Voice of Resistance.