Relocating Islanders Whose Homes Will Disappear
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is the highlight of my year. I go to four to six films a day for the ten days of the festival. Every year I want to diary the best films, but I am so...
View ArticleUncovering The Past, From The Big Bang to Pinochet
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is the highlight of my year. I go to four to six films a day for the ten days of the festival. Every year I want to diary the best films, but I am so...
View ArticleSanta Barbara Film Festival: Quebec films and Raymond
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is the highlight of my year. I go to four to six films a day for the ten days of the festival. Every year I want to diary the best films, but I am so...
View ArticleDoing Your Job Plus Life Experience = "Hero"
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is the highlight of my year. I go to four to six films a day for the ten days of the festival. Every year I want to diary the best films, but I am so...
View ArticleBarbara Conrad Beats Racism; Skateboarding in Afghanistan
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is the highlight of my year. I go to four to six films a day for the ten days of the festival. Every year I want to diary the best films, but I am so...
View ArticleDemanding and Offering Dignity
The idea for this group began with resistance to institutionalized torture. As the debate over torture has played out, it has seemed to me that too many of us have lost touch with the fundamental...
View ArticleResponsible Discussion: Group Guidelines
Here is the promised diary about my hopes for conduct in this group. This is more than mere housekeeping; I do believe the smallest act is just as profound as the biggest ideal from which it springs....
View ArticleIHR: Proving Torture Ineffectual
This is the first working diary for the group Inherent Human Rights. We are suggesting our first concrete project—collection and organization of data proving that torture is an ineffectual tool for...
View ArticleI'm sorry my government tortured you, David
What else could Jason Leopold say to David Hicks? When balanced against at least four years of brutal torture and over five years of confinement, it doesn't seem like much. If we hope to keep our...
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Sanctimonious Sundays: Purist Hall of Fame
Welcome to Sanctimonious Sunday, a new series that will be published by members of the following groups: The Amateur Left, Team DFH and Frustrati, as a collaboration of sorts. Feel free to get your...
View ArticleState Dept Spokesman Resigns; Obama Defends Treatment of Manning
I only have internet access a few minutes a day this week, so I don't have time for a proper diary. I post this primarily to get the story on record here, because my inept searches find no indication...
View ArticleU.S. ME Policy is Explicitly Against Regional Self-Interest
It is impossible for a feeling person to watch common citizens brutally crushed by a tyrant without wishing a benign force would intervene to stop the bloodshed. Is the U.S. military such a benign...
View ArticleDoor Number Three, Please Mr. Cole
Juan Cole, and many other people, are telling me I now face a Very Important Moral Question. They insist that I must take a stand, that I must choose between opposing United States imperialist...
View ArticleCommand Failure in Afghanistan
[Warning! THE PHOTOS ACCOMPANYING THE LINKED ROLLING STONES ARTICLE CONTAIN EXPLICIT IMAGES OF AN EXTREMELY VIOLENT NATURE] Despite the best suppressive efforts of the army, some of the hundreds of...
View ArticleMadoff Appointed to Commission on Pensions
Well, not yet, but the victims of Madoff would feel much the same as the mother of likely murdered U.S. soldier Pat Tillman feels about the appointment of disgraced General Stanley McChrystal to head...
View ArticleWe Cannot Merely Pray
We cannot merely pray to You, O God, to end war; For we know that You have made the world in a way So that all of us must find our own path to peace, Within ourselves and with our neighbors. We cannot...
View ArticleLooking Back at Gitmo Innocents and the Bush Doctrine
Our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for preemptive action when necessary to defend our liberty and to defend our lives. President George W. Bush at...
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Sanctimonious Sunday: Would You Buy a Used Car from This Organization?
Welcome to Sanctimonious Sunday, a series published by members of the following groups: The Amateur Left, Team DFH and Frustrati, as a collaboration of sorts. Feel free to get your sanctimonious on....
View ArticleForeign Policy of a Wounded Bear
The U.S. will react like a wounded bear and it will attack Afghanistan. These were the first words of President Pervez Musharraf at the meeting of top Pakistani military and government officials...
View ArticlePundit Accuracy Tested: Krugman and Dowd DOMINATE! Update: Professional Left...
In this paper, we report on the first-ever test of the accuracy of predictions in the media. We sampled the predictions of 26 individuals who wrote columns in major newspapers and/or appeared on the...
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