Democratic Individuality

         In a Sunday Review in early August, the New York Times published a sour article by a Virginia political scientist apparently protesting Jon Stewart’s putatively myopic liberalism. But the article actually built toward a conclusion which emphasized the pluckiness of John Yoo, whom Stewart had expected to be a blusterer, and the allegedly …

3:AM:: article: obama’s speech on the iran nuclear treaty By Alan Gilbert. Last Wednesday, Obama gave the most important andwell-argued foreign policy speech of his Presidency,a speech which follows two years of long and harddiplomacy, and put together a diplomatic agreement to bar Iran from seeking a nuclear weapon. Thisagreement blocks the danger of an even …

     Rob Howse and Jacob Lew underline an argument about the emptiness of Republican claims to sabotage the mulilateral treaty with Iran which most people don’t know.  It is worth taking in and emphasizing to our fellow citizens and Congress to uphold the Treaty. ***      International finance, as Rob Howse underlines, works …

A dumb waiter Monticello connects the dining room dumb to the kitchen so that cooks missing hovels and waiters need not be seen

   For the first two parts of this series on the need for everyone to work to sustain the nuclear Treaty with Iran, see here and here.  ***    David Bromwich offers below a definitive consideration of the Israeli strategy of conquest/destruction in the Middle East, and how the neocons, notably Richard Perle but also …

   For part 1, see here.   This series is on arguments to use in talking with people, protesting against war. ***    The American press and government make no effort to cover what Iranians actually think.  Instead, they demonize them. ***     But Obama’s multilateral efforts which have secured a Treaty barring Iran …

        Last Wednesday, Obama gave the most important and well-argued foreign policy speech of his Presidency, a speech which follows two years of long and hard diplomacy, and put together a diplomatic agreement to bar Iran from seeking a nuclear weapon.  This agreement blocks the danger of an even larger war in …

                  For Michael Brown                 He did not walk errant the side walk he erred on the street his friend laughing a big top Officer Gideon sunny afternoon giddy swept around spinning (now hides in his house) high school over almost danc did not walk on the sidewalk

   Visitors to the Occupied Territories, as I did as part of a delegation of the Dorothy Cotton Institute in October, 2012, see naked Israeli violence against nonviolent protestors, ordinary villagers, from small towns near the Wall.  Since Palestinian villagers demonstrate every Friday (often supported by the Israeli Anarchists against the Wall or Rabbis for …

racist terrorism: dead for driving whilst black By Alan Gilbert. Sandra Bland was an activist in Black Lives Matter! from Chicago. She had just gotten a job at Prairie View A & M , her alma mater, and was driving to it. Sandra was also an artist who had a whole life to live… Geneva Reed-Veal, Sandra’s mother, …