The disjuncture these days between reality and what one reads in
the press here is pretty much absolute. The other day I opened up the San
Francisco Chronicle and found a piece hailing what the writer described as
something most...
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18 January 2002
Delegates from all parts of the U.S. gathered in Washington DC June 15-18 to attend the Education for Peace in Iraq Center’s (EPIC) Iraq Forum and to lobby members of congress to lift economic sanctions and oppose prominent hardliners...
16 January 2002
Several years ago, while I was a student
at Columbia University’s School of In-
ternational and Public Affairs, one of the hottest topics of debate was an article Harvard’s Samuel Huntington wrote in Foreign Affairs magazine titled “The...
16 January 2002
How many people do you know who claim to be skeptical,
who pride themselves on their distrust for authority, who
like to pretend that they’re wise to the ways of the world — and then, every time there’s a war, they swallow the lies of...
16 January 2002
I arrived back from Colombia tired but very, very happy with
the trip. I have nothing but the highest praise for Witness for
Peace volunteers Jess and Julia who organized our delegation to travel and learn about the realities of life...
16 January 2002
The current political-economic crisis in Argentina, at first
glance, appears to be the resultant snafu of a corrupt
government that is itself the legacy of an even more corrupt government which itself arose from the ashes of a military...