The left is getting itself tied up in knots about the Just War
and the propriety of bombing Afghanistan. The respected Princeton professor
Richard Falk has outlined in The Nation an...
24 October 2001
"FBI and Justice Department investigators are increasingly
frustrated by the silence of jailed suspected associates of Osama bin
Laden's al Qaeda network, and some are beginning to that say that
traditional civil liberties may have to be...
20 October 2001
The last time I was in Selma, Alabama was in 1972, traveling across the
South with a group of activists making a movie. (It never came out, which
was just as well.) Our group was received with traditional Southern
hospitality...
19 October 2001
A couple of phrases give us useful pointers to the moral and
political intricacies of retribution. The Pentagon is talking about
establishing "killing boxes" around Kabul, where U.S. helicopter gunships
can fire at will. The Pentagon's...
03 October 2001
I've been surprised here in Petrolia, Calif., to hear some
people say they're afraid. Afraid of what, I ask. Remember, even in the days
when the imminent possibility of nuclear holocaust was dinned into
schoolkids, ducking and covering...
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