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In a new ABC story, a Marine has testified under oath to rthe existence of serious abuses at Gitmo. ABC reports: “In a sworn affidavit filed with the Pentagon Inspector General, Sgt. Cerveny says she met several Navy prison guards at a club on the base where, over drinks, they described harsh physical abuse. “‘One…

The Blogosphere has been an excellent source of information and in-depth discussion of issues surrounding the English medical journal Lancet’s report that most likey somewhere in the number of 650,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the US invasion and its aftermath. The American radical right has attempted to deny the this report’s accuracy,…

As I was looking over WWI posters on Google Image to help illustrate some of Jane Addams’ arguments about opposition to war in my Twentieth Century American Political Thought class, I discovered this poster from WWI. Back then what counted as a genuine atrocity was something that would probably not even merit a news story…

Recent years have seen the mainstream media’s ability to serve the public by keeping tabs on Washington wither under the combination of corporate priorities, over paid and lazy talking heads, and sophisticated manipulation by the President’s media managers. It had become almost as if we had a state owned media, but because it was “privatre”…

“If I catch anyone who leaks in my government,” Bush tells Chrétien in March, 2002, “I would like to string them up by the thumbs — the same way we do with prisoners in Guantanamo.” George Bush to French prime minister Jean Chrétien with thanks to Digby Perhaps this quotation explains why Bush wanted so…

Not only can we not trust current Republican politicians with our Constitution (signing statements, torture, habeus corpus), our government (Katrina, suppression of science), our military (Iraq) or our money (Abramoff, Iraq, the deficit, the economy), you can’t trust Republicans with our kids (Predator Coverup). Come to think of it, I am not sure the picture…

I got up this morning despondent about the latest news over George Bush’s evident desire to torture people, the failure of anyone in office to genuinely stand up to him, and what that says about a country that once deserved to be called great in more than its ability to kill people. How else describe…

This blog has been silent most of the summer, largely due to my having been on a long road trip up into northern Ontario, then to California to give some papers on emergent order, followed by teaching a workshop in New Mexico. Then I moved into a new place and visited Maine, my favorite part…

The recent Republican attempt to pass a anti-flag burning amendment has an interesting affinity with Fundamentalist Christian’s views of the Bible. Fundamentalists worship the Bible, confusing it with God, but pay remarkably little attention to what it actually says. Orrin Hatch and other Republican thugs worship the flag and pay remarkably little attention “to the…

I will be giving a workshop at Ardantane in Jemez Springs, NM, Saturday July 22 and Sunday July 23. Pagans often describe themselves as an earth or nature religion, but what does that mean? We celebrate the phases of the moon and Sabbats related to solar and agricultural cycles, but what more is involved? Why…
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