Susanne M.J. Heine writing for INTERRACIAL VOICE on The RPI and why it doesn't work in the minds of bureaucrats: Two weeks ago in California, the "Racial Privacy Initiative" (RPI), […]
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Category: Blog, Commentary and Articles
A section containing all blog entries, articles and commentaries. Many of these entries were imported from my earlier Blogspot, MovableType and WordPress blogs. In addition, political commentary, articles and essays written for publication and coursework can be found here. Much of the commentary in this section was published in The Multiracial Activist, The Abolitionist Examiner, The Good Men Project and Interracial Voice. Many essays in this section were written for coursework at the American Military University.
Philly Says No To PATRIOT Act
Reuters on Philadelphia council condemns Patriot Act: Philadelphia on Thursday became the largest U.S. city to date to condemn the USA Patriot Act as a threat to the constitutional rights […]
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General Zinni Dissents
Jan Barry writing for Veterans Against The Iraq War on Retired General Dissents, Big Media AWOL: Working for peace in the Middle East is more important than waging war in […]
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Administration Scripts Another War
Michael Theodoulou writing for the Christian Science Monitor on 'Crude' US rhetoric could boost Iran's hard-liners: There is an unpleasant sense of deja vu in Tehran. In 2001, Iran helped […]
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The Long, Dark Backpedal of Shame
Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus of The Washington Post on U.S. Hedges on Finding Iraqi Weapons: Officials Cite the Possibility of Long or Fruitless Search for Banned Arms: Pressed in […]
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Victim Disarmament, Pentagon Style
Tyler Marshall of the Los Angeles Times on Search prompts rioting in Iraq: In the third consecutive day of Iraqi violence against US military occupation, residents enraged over house-to-house searches […]
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Biometric Blues
NCPA on Biometrics May be Impractical: Biometrics — the statistical study of biological phenomenon such as the shape of your face, the minutiae of your fingertips, the bone structure of […]
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The Ghost of Gulf War Future
The Guardian on 'Gulf war syndrome' soldiers threaten legal action: Four soldiers have threatened to sue the Ministry of Defence after suffering symptoms similar to "Gulf war syndrome", their lawyer […]
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More Friendly Neo-con Bashing
Karen Kwiatkowski on Neocons on the Outs?: We have seen them in action – chicken hawks who conveniently missed out on military service, who safely skipped the wars of their […]
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The Myth of the Indispensable Chickenhawk
Bob Wallace on The Brain of the Chickenhawk: These men are deserving of nothing but contempt. They're cowards, all of them. They think they are so intellectually and morally superior […]
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