6 Articles
Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Collateral Damage is Murder
...there is probably no term that is more repugnant and immoral than the one that discards the importance of other people's lives are mere collateral damage; especially when their deaths become incidental to the conquest of some military or political objective. As collateral damage, these people suffer the same outcome as fat discarded by a butcher...
Saturday, August 5, 2006
The world enters crisis overload
...The ongoing war in Lebanon is taking our eyes from a possibly epic humanitarian disaster, the same way the heatwave of 2003 killed 52,000 Europeans in one of the deadliest climate-related disasters in Western history. Close to 15,000 Frenchmen were parched to death when the media focused on the humanitarian crisis du jour in Iraq...
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Bush's "wimpification" of the UN
...Inviting China, India, South Africa, Mexico and Brazil to the shindig in St. Petersburg didn't validate or add luster to this G-8 gathering; it only underlined the need for all issues of concern to the peoples of the world to be discussed and negotiated under one roof: the United Nations; or, if this institution is broken, an appropriate replacement...
Sunday, June 4, 2006
Politicians Lie? Say it Ain't So!
... the federal government extracts over Two Trillion Dollars from us every single year. Yet, with all this unthinkable wealth, it has been incapable of reducing poverty, improving our schools, preventing 9-11, catching those who perpetrated the attacks, making health care affordable, reducing crime, and so on. Going even further, each year, it passes new laws that make it legal to pry into your life even more...
Sunday, May 21, 2006
On the Electoral College
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Limiting Presidential War Powers
An ongoing examination on the executive branch and related war powers...