For Americans, the aughts began with the fearful Y2K and ended on
Christmas Day 2009 with a terrorist attack, thankfully failed, on board a
plane from Amsterdam to Detroit. Call these ‘macro-fears’ and include
everything that is going on in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, North Korea, Yemen, Somali and the newest
exotic locale which a primarily xenophobic American cultural
consciousness has no “ap” for.
Since the Cold War ended in 1990, four legacy empires — those of China, France, Russia, and the United States — have exercised an undue influence over almost every aspect [...]
In Ft. Wayne, Indiana, this September, I was arrested with a long-time activist friend, Cliff Kindy, for blocking the entrance to a Raytheon Corp. facility. We both requested jury trials [...]
Carr has long opposed net neutrality, insisting it created burdensome and overreaching regulations to govern the internet. One reason Carr might have chosen not to consider net neutrality was that [...]
In 1989, US forces invaded, conquered, and occupied Panama, replacing its pet dictator, Manuel Noriega with a new regime. Then-president George H.W. Bush’s justifications for the invasion included protecting US [...]
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding [...]
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