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US
nonvoting - as powerful as using guns
November 14 2007:
Joel S. Hirschhorn
advocates a mass nonvoting strategy to
combat America's corrupt political conspiracy.
US
voters must humiliate political elites
October 27 2007:
Joel S. Hirschhorn argues
that America needs
a Second Revolution, which
must begin with massive withdrawal by citizens.
Why the US government tests few Chinese imports
September 27 2007:
By
Joel S. Hirschhorn.
Next step to 9/11 justice
September 26 2007:
By
Joel S. Hirschhorn.
Deck chairs on the
Titanic? Waiting for history to judge Bush's Iraq nightmare
March 7 2007:
Colleen Redman
asks whether we can afford to wait for history to judge the Bush
Presidency.
Taking
democracy seriously
March 7 2007:
Mandatory
voting is now required in the US, says
Joel S. Hirschhorn.
2007 Super Bowl ads
- what direction America?
March 7 2007:
Gary Simon
explains how US TV
ads are misrepresenting Americans.
Why Florida must fight for democracy
October 20 2006: Joel S. Hirschhorn
urges
Florida citizens
to vote
against
Amendment 3
in
November.
US political placebo or real change?
October 7 2006: If
Americans
are to win back their own country from political elites, says
Joel S. Hirschhorn,
a positive
unifying
strategy
is indispensable.
Criminally negligent US federal officials
October 1 2006: If it is true
that no person is above the law, Joel S. Hirschhorn
reasons,
then Bush and
many others in his administration should be investigated for criminally
negligent homicide.
Kinky
Friedman for US President
August 26 2006:
Joel S. Hirschhorn
argues
that Kinky Friedman, a genuine American personality, is the right man
for the next US Presidency in troubled times.
US Renaissance
required
April 14 2006:
Why is the US political system not working?
Gary Simon
considers some of the consequences of usurpation of power and the
failure to combat fear and build a national consciousness.
Beyond one-dimensional US political thinking
April 10 2006:
Tom
Crumpacker
examines some of the perils of narrowly linear logical perspectives in
US politics.
The politics of depoliticization and the end of history
January 4 2006:
Tom
Crumpacker
looks beneath the neoliberal veil of democracy at the politicised aims
of history.
Dr Weaver's
snake oil: Toward a realistic antiwar strategy
December 8 2005:
Tom
Crumpacker considers
some of the adverse influence
NSC special advisor
Weaver has been having on
Bush.
Cheney, CIA and
strategic deception techniques
November 7 2005:
Jason
Leopold
takes a
look at
White House lying techniques with particular reference to Vice-President
Dick Cheney.
Judith Miller's 'middleman'
mission in Iraq
October 20 2005:
Jason
Leopold
looks at
New York Times reporter Judith Miller's 'middleman' relationship
with
military and political groups in Iraq.
NYC subway bomb
plot is bogus
October 10 2005:
Jason
Leopold considers
evidence linking Bush terrorist warnings with falling poll numbers.
Bill Frist: savvy
stock seller or fraud?
September 27 2005: Jason
Leopold
examines the documentary evidence.
Katrina KOs GOP
fiscal policies
September 22 2005: Jason
Leopold
asks to what extent Hurricane Katrina
brought about a man-made disaster due to Bush's policies.
Katrina, cronyism
and incompetence
September 21 2005:
Colleen Redman
peers behind Bush's botched response to Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Frances
fraud: Bush, Brown and FEMA
September 10 2005: Jason
Leopold
explains how over $31m of taxpayer money was unlawfully distributed to
Florida voters as part of the Bush re-election campaign.
Hurricane
Katrina: a democracy disaster
September 7 2005: Joel
S. Hirschhorn
says why
Katrina should become a metaphor for
America’s
failed representative democracy.
Stalking the
elusive historical analogy
September 5 2005: Which foreign policy precedent for George W.
Bush? By John Hickman.
Luis Posada
Carriles: actual and virtual reality
July 3 2005:
Luis
Posada Carriles should be extradited to Venezuela for trial immediately
for having murdered 73 innocent passengers in 1976, says Tom
Crumpacker.
Yet the US insists
on holding him on minor charges.
Overt and covert
state terrorism
June 5 2005:
Tom Crumpacker examines some of the
typical uses of overt and covert state terrorism.
Caribbean creolophone
dilemma
May 26 2005:
In
addressing the language problem facing Caribbean creolophone
writers, Ardain Isma considers the
cases
of Edouard Glissant and René Depestre.
Responding to rising
rudeness
May 23 2005:
Caught
in the crossfire of rising rudeness in everyday life,
Gary Simon
takes a lighthearted look at a decidedly serious subject.
Bush beating
over Posada
May 23 2005:
The US is
refusing to extradite a former CIA operative who was allowed to escape
after killing over 70 people by blowing up a Cuban airliner nearly 30
years ago. Luis Posada Carriles is currently being held in Texas on
minor charges.
Tom Crumpacker
looks at the case.
Dying beliefs
April 2 2005: Héctor Abad
Faciolince takes a critical look at modern life prolonging
methods in the context of religious faith.
Cardinal chicaneries
- flight from eco plight
March
28
2005:
Neglect of the ecosystem, overconcern with greed and the passing of
regressive laws have contributed to rendering the US a hardened nation,
says
Gary Simon.
Close contact with nature proves both enjoyable and instructive.
Uncle
Psalm and the First Amendment
March
7 2005:
The US Supreme Court has been asked to judge whether a granite
edition of the 10 Commandments should not be removed from public display
on the grounds that the state is thereby discriminating against Muslims,
Hindus and others. Meanwhile George W. Bush has said that he would like
to nominate high court judges who share his own religious beliefs. Mister
Thorne examines the issue.
Uncle's
America
March
7 2005:
Gary
Simon recalls
the formative role of his early mentor in teaching him crucial values
and principles. But how would uncle's passionate American patriotism
figure in today's context and just how much still survives of those old
principles and old America?
Economic
corruption US style
February 24 2005: Joel
S. Hirschhorn
looks at the phenomenon of "naked shorting" on the stockmarket
and explains how American shareholders are being freely and
systematically defrauded with counterfeit shares.
Iraq
election truths
February 10 2005: How much real democracy has been achieved in
Iraq and at what price? Colleen
Redman looks at past comparisons, future probabilities and US
interests.
Turning
the tide on torturing nature
December 1 2004: The US urgently needs to devise adequate
policies to prevent appalling animal cruelty and irreversible
environmental damage worldwide, says
Gary Simon.
Bush
sleeps on Afghan opium boom
November 27 2004: A UN study has revealed
a record opium production boom in Afghanistan to 87 per cent of the
world crop for 2004. So why is the White House not responding? John
Hickman provides some of the answers.
US
Constitution revolution for real democracy
November 23 2004: Pending
a radical change to the US Constitution progressives can forget genuine
democracy, says Tom Crumpacker.
Pre-election
message to Americans - 30 Oct 2004
November 1 2004: Text of Al-Jazeera televised message
from Osama Bin Laden.
Positively
Jewish: Jews with Christians for social justice
October 25 2004:
In
the US the Jewish condition is often experienced as one of
"otherness". Omar Swartz advocates transcendence of
this condition in order to unite with Christians in combating social
injustices.
Election of Afghan president sets undemocratic precedent
October 18 2004: President Hamid Karzai is insisting that his
country's first democratic elections were carried out freely and fairly.
But, says John Hickman, despite high voter turnout and mainstream
press reports, the election conspicuously failed to represent the will
of the Afghan people.
Nationality
irrationality and the Swiss referendum
October 10 2004:
A
referendum in Switzerland has upheld the country's policy of keeping
Swiss citizenship élitist. Héctor Abad Faciolince reflects on
some of the prejudices
underlying the assignment of nationality.
Haiti
uncertainty after Aristide
August 28 2004: Ardain
Isma
explains
why the Aristide regime collapsed so quickly and considers the role
of the United States.
Bewailing
walls of doom: Israel and beyond
July 23 2004: Héctor
Abad Faciolince describes
his visit to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and reflects on some of the
far-reaching implications of Israel's ongoing Cisjordanian wall for the
21st century.
Stalking
heads - from John the Baptist to Herrera and Berg
July 14 2004: Daniel Patrick Welch peers
beneath the West's self-proclaimed cultural and moral superiority in the
face of atrocities against innocents in other parts of the world.
From
linguistic to moral degeneracy
July 3 2004:
Are there important links between language neglect and contemporary
moral abandonment?
Gary
Simon
says why he believes there are.
Novel
injustices: Whither the contemporary novel?
June 30 2004: To
what extent has the book industry damaged the contemporary novel? Is
saleability prevailing over genuine artistic merit? Ardain
Isma provides
some of the answers.
The
quiet American
June 22 2004: Gary
Simon
reflects on the current state of the US, its relationship to the
environment and the use of power and propaganda together with their effects on people.
Impeach
George W. Bush now!
May 18 2004:
It
is now time to get rid of Bush fast.
Daniel
Patrick Welch
explains
why.
Imperial
tea party in Iraq
May 12 2004: With
recent "revelations" of Iraqi mistreatment, the Bush horror
show in Iraq has assumed a surreal dimension, say
Daniel
Patrick Welch
and
Julia Nambalirwa-Lugudde.
Gay
marriage and hypocrisy in Massachusetts
March 31 2004:
Daniel
Patrick Welch
says
that Massachusetts state lawmakers have drawn up same-sex marriage
legislation in a cowardly and evil manmner.
Preventive
war, preventive scanning
January 9 2004: Héctor
Abad Faciolince argues that present US procedures for anti-terrorist
frontier scanning could mark the start of a new paradigm in
discrimination against citizens of "grade-B" countries.
Message
to Iraqis - 19 Oct 2003
November 30 2003: Text of Al-Jazeera televised message
from Osama Bin Laden.
Message
to Americans - 18 Oct 2003
November 30 2003: Text of Al-Jazeera televised message
from Osama Bin Laden.
Never
mind the democracy - export the love
November
27 2003:
Daniel
Patrick Welch
casts
an ironical eye over pResident Bush, Brit Bliar and US-UK
attempts to export democracy tailor-made to suit themselves.
Who
was behind 9/11? - an interview with Osama Bin Laden
November 26 2003: The
Daily Ummat of Karachi interviews Osama Bin Laden.
Muslims
against global crusaders - an interview with Osama Bin Laden
November 26 2003: Tayseer Alouni interviews Osama Bin Laden.
When
terrorist response is justified - an interview with Osama Bin Laden
November 26 2003: John Miller and some Bin Laden followers put
questions to Osama Bin Laden.
Focus
on Saudi Arabia - an interview with Osama Bin Laden
November 26 2003: Peter Arnett conducts the 1997 CNN television
interview with Osama Bin Laden.
Transplanting
the heart of democracy in Iraq
November 21 2003: Héctor
Abad Faciolince explains why Bush's declared attempt to introduce
democracy in Iraq by force seems set to fail.
Collateral
language: an interview with Noam Chomsky
November 17 2003: David
Barsamian interviews
Noam Chomsky.
Multiplying
misery - Vatican sins against humanity
October 25 2003: As
the Roman Catholic world celebrates the 25th anniversary of Pope John
Paul's pontificate, Héctor Abad Faciolince argues that
continuing Church opposition to birth control now threatens planetary
disaster.
Between
Europe and America - the Friedenspreis acceptance speech
October 19
2003: On
12 October 2003 Susan Sontag was awarded the Friedenspreis
peace prize at the Frankfurt book fair for being the “most prominent
intellectual ambassador between the two continents” of America and
Europe.
Dominance
and its dilemmas
October 11 2003:
Noam Chomsky on US global hegemony.
Appeal
for David Aliaga
July 25 2003: Domenico
Pacitti urges the Human Rights Watch Academic Freedom
Committee to intervene in the Aliaga case and help change a
university system that Italians have for centuries shown themselves
unable or unwilling to reform.
We
are the patriots
May 31 2003: Gore
Vidal asks
how it is possible for the US to engage in wars without the consensus of
a large part of the American people and places
the question within a historical perspective that reveals the remarkable
foresight of Benjamin Franklin.
Imperial
ambition: an interview with Noam Chomsky
May 18 2003: David
Barsamian interviews
Noam Chomsky.
Don't
mess with Texas
April 13 2003:
Daniel Patrick Welch asks what lessons we should learn from Iraq 2003.
Road
to hell
April 7 2003: An
Argentinian asks whether current US genocide could reach the level of
the Jewish holocaust and whether Americans are aware that a tiny
percentage of the world's population has "democratically"
elected a puppet-madman. Daniel Patrick Welch provides some
honest answers.
Iraq
2003 - a trial run: an interview with Noam Chomsky
April 4 2003: V.K.
Ramachandran interviews
Noam Chomsky.
Fair
warning
March 15 2003:
Daniel
Patrick Welch argues that unilateral
unprovoked American aggression against Iraq would signal the beginning
of the end of the US as a world power.
Genetic
manipulations: an interview with Michael Pyshnov
February 7 2003:
A
Russian biologist who emigrated to Canada tells how he was literally
robbed of his research. Despite his supervisor's serious admissions,
Michael Pyshnov’s repeated appeals for help have fallen on deaf ears.
American
Taliban
January 17 2003: Obsession
with Iraq by George W. Bush and his henchmen has set the US firmly on
course to becoming the world's pariah, says Daniel Patrick
Welch.
Doctoral
torture: an interview with David Aliaga
December 21 2002:
Bureaucracy,
inefficiency and corruption in Italian academia shattered a Canadian’s
dream of a doctoral degree in his ancestral country. David Aliaga
relates the bitter experience that has changed his life.
Suffering
suffrage!
November 25 2002:
Challenging
voters under the guise of fraud prevention is an old White Supremacy
trick, a black-and-white case of "keepin' the niggers down",
says Daniel Patrick Welch.
Colombians
weary of kidnap terror
November 15 2002: Kidnap
victims in Colombia have risen to a world record of over 17,000 in the
last five years. The much tried patience of the Colombian people is now
running out, says Héctor Abad Faciolince.
Criminally
courting Bush in Colombia
August 30 2002: Colombia
should reject U.S. carrot and stick methods and fully recognise the
authority of the International Criminal Court. Héctor Abad
Faciolince reports.
Blair's
Bobby Cooper for Colombian president?
August 15 2002: Héctor
Abad Faciolince advises passive resistance as a last resort in
coping with British and U.S. defensive imperialism.
Waiting
for Godot in quarantine
August 15 2002: Héctor
Abad Faciolince
reveals
the cruel psychological torture suffered by Colombians seeking visas and
places them within the broader context of the world's poor, the new
plague-ridden pariahs of society who must be quarantined.
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