Diversity Of Tactics: The Noise Before Defeat
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.” Sun Tzu For the reasons given by me and others it is necessary that the progressive movement distance itself from the violent Black Bloc faction which is coopting the movement. Even Jon Stewart (in Canada here) notes that “they’re violent, disruptive, and draw a lot of […]
Wikileaks: Exposing US And NATO’s War Crimes In Afghanistan
Today, The White House sternly condemned the release by Wikileaks of nearly 92,000 secret US military documents about the conflict in Afghanistan as “irresponsible”. The files were made available yesterday by the whistle-blower website, and include details of covert operations against top Taliban, unreported civilian killings and NATO concerns about Pakistan official ( notably agents […]
Right-Wing America: Racism And Religion
There is a preponderance of malicious and racially controversial rhetoric emanating from a particular area within the body politic. The same population of political and social conservatives that espouse their Christianity, and wish to impose it on the rest of the nation, are the instigators of much of the current, racially divisive, rhetoric.
California ACLU Endorses Pot Legalization Measure
The California affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union announced Friday their endorsement of Proposition 19, the initiative on the November 2010 ballot to allow state regulation and taxation of marijuana.
Indigenous Sovereignty Threatened by UK LaCrosse Decision
The Native American Indian confederacy of tribes known as the Iroquois Nation, or Haudenosaunee were recently denied access to the World Lacrosse Championships in England, despite their ancestors invented the sport. This brings up an important indigenous rights issue: sovereignty.
