October 2004

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  You Say You Want A Revolution?

  10.29.04 | Permalink | Comments Off |

  “The military conflict itself, by cominating everything it its time, diminished other issues, made people choose sides in the one contest that was publicly important, forced people onto the side of the Revolution whose interest in Independence was not at all obvious. Ruling elites seem to have learned through the generations–consciously or not–that war [...]

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  Noam Chomsky in Antigonish: Transcript

  10.27.04 | Permalink | Comments Off |

  Noam Chomsky recently spoke at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where I happened to spend my first year of my undergraduate degree. Here is a complete transcript of his October 13 lecture, on occupying Iraq, the “War on Terrorism” and more. Many thanks to Stu for the transcript.
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  Does America Suffer from an “Excess of Democracy” ?

  10.24.04 | Permalink | Comments Off |

  Today, while reading Howard Zinnís masterpiece ìA Peopleís History of the United Statesî, I came across an interesting quote on the place of corporate power in government, one Zinn believes ìwas probably the frankest statement ever made by an Establishment adviser.î The passage is from a report called ìThe Governability of Democraciesî, and was [...]

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  World Series 2004: Yankees vs. AIDS patients

  10.20.04 | Permalink | Comments Off |

  Tonight, nothing will make me happier than seeing the New York Yankees go down in flames.
  While sports commentary is not exactly what visitors to this site are expecting, today I must break from tradition. The Boston Red Sox are one game away from making baseball history by coming back from [...]

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  Shooting Unarmed Children is Ethical, Says Israeli Army

  10.16.04 | Permalink | Comments Off |

  Update: The Israeli army today cleared the officer who was accused by his own troops of slaughtering a 13-year-old Palestinian girl earlier this week, “emptying his entire magazine to her head”.
  According to The Guardian, “the army’s southern commander, Maj. Gen. Dan Harel, said he found no ‘unethical’ behaviour by the commander or his [...]