In this Truthout interview (by Geoffry Millard), Phil Donahue exhorts: "Don't sanitize the war." Who are the perpetrators of this effort to sanitize the war? Politicians and the media, for starters. That effort to sanitize the bloody U.S. occupation of Iraq is the main message of the newly-released movie that…
My friend Russ sent me this link to an article in our local paper entitled, "Cowardly hypocrisy of Darwin fish displays". The title does a good job of strongly framing a weak argument. After I read it, I decided to post my response here: The article begins by framing anything…
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What is a meaningful way of understanding the immense amount of money the United States spends in Iraq each day? This simple video by American Friends Service Committee compellingly gets this point across. How does one most fairly frame this issue of what the United States is spending in Iraq?…
Charlie Rose is having such a difficult time listening to his guests, because he has so obviously bought into the standard mainstream media view on the Iraq conflict (which is essentially the view developed by the Bush Administration). He appears simultaneously ignorant yet preachy as two men with genuine familiarity with…