When the news hit that the NSA had a domestic spying program, I was shocked, but not entirely. With the passage of the USA - Patriot act, a new world is revealed: warrants that keep cops and the FBI out are no longer needed, habeas corpus is in danger of becoming extinct and those […]
Do you remember when Kanye made his mark in the collective post-Katrina conscience when he said Bush doesn’t care about black people? Those on the west coast may not have seen it in the CA NBC telecast of the Katrina fundraising event, because Kanye’s comments were edited out.
Despite NBC’s unfortunate editing, everyone knew about […]
Israel continues the shelling of Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. For three soldiers. Shelling is a misnomer; let me restate that:
Israel continues its grossly disproportionate blood bath by an equally machismo war machine.
There is certainly no justification for this incursion. I’ve been wondering what has made Israel come to this, to nearly […]
Seconds ago, I found out about seven rail blasts along Bombay’s commuter train network. I was there earlier im Bombay earlier this year and took these trains often; they served equal doses of fear (of getting pushed off due to the monstrous people density) and utter happiness (for not having to deal with constant […]
Israel continues its brutal offensive into parts of Gaza; today with tanks. Its said that the country plans to re-occupy formerly occupied territories. The target is no longer to get Cpl Gilad Shalit, but to destroy Hamas and its “terror infrastructure.” How often does Israel’s actions render its rhetoric insufficient in describing the […]
I wonder how Cpl Gilad Shalit feels now that the city of Gaza, Palestine is being shelled out and ground up for the latest bloodbath in the latest imperial Israeli operation.
Of course, he’s being held, probably against his will, somewhere in Palestine. But is anyone curious about what he’s thinking, what runs through the 19-year […]
I just saw part of a documentary on PBS called No More Tears Sister: Anatomy of Hope and Betrayal about Sri Lankan Human Rights Activist Dr. Rajani Thirangama.
I didn’t see the whole thing, and I wish I had. Dr. Thirangama, who was a member of the Tamil Tigers, was the head of the […]
Someone I met a long time ago only once and saw again this weekend at a Dallas wedding - Robert - said something quite revealing: that all our friends our rich.
He was referring to his particular set of friends, who are mostly medical students/doctors based in Texas or were once in TX for school. […]
There’s been a lively discussion happening with a friend that started when I said the word ‘desi’ one day. You can track some of it here and, more recently, here.
My stance is that the d-word indicates a shared experience, and is particular to the diaspora. It doesn’t indicate a homogeneity of people coming […]
I am reading John Perkins’ book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which reads a little like a history book/tabloid/memoir. What prompted me to read it has to do with a theory I had some time ago.
I thought that power and empire work purely to create more power and more empire. If not actual power […]
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