Monthly Archives: October 2010

WIKILEAKS REVEALS TIP OF THE ICEBERG ONLY

Wikileaks unfortunately compromised its own expose of the death toll from the war in Iraq by relying on faulty statistics to begin with.  Using the Iraq Body Count which seriously underestimates the number of Iraqis killed during the US war … Continue reading

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Thank you for you comments and patience, this blog is still in its early stages

Thank you for coming to this blog.  We had a good start, then with the publication of Unmaking War, Remaking Men, I was on the road and giving talks.  I’ll be back with new and regular posts in the next … Continue reading

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It was not surprising yesterday to read the results of the FAIR study of public broadcasting which is in fact no longer public but a CEO driven private enterprise.  Like corporations and the US government, we receive PBS news primarily … Continue reading

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Chilean Miners – Lives Saved, War – Where Killing Is Normal

I stayed up last night glued to the television waiting for the last rescue worker who had been a half mile below ground with the 33 who had been trapped there for 69 days.  I felt part of millions all … Continue reading

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We Urgently Await Lives Being Saved in Chile While Military Killings Continue in U.S. Wars

The news reports say that by this Wednesday the 33 Chilean miners trapped a half mile underground will be coming out.  When it was discovered that miraculously they are still alive, the best guess was they would not be rescued … Continue reading

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Why Empathy Requires Equality Among All Human Beings?

The politics of empathy insists on equality.  We cannot truly empathize with another unless we put ourselves on equal footing with her or him or them.  Empathy has room neither for inferior dependents nor for superior aggressors (for all superiority … Continue reading

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How Well-Meaning Americans Are Drawn Into Opposing the Islamic Center

The extreme-right hate campaigns are aimed at reducing all Arabs and all Muslims to Al Qaeda style terrorists in the minds of Americans. In other words, they are doing the public relations work of the military in promoting fear to … Continue reading

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