November 3, 2008

The Coming Obama Global Test

"The reality is, we have to cleanse the soul of America. Our soul is covered in militarism, economic exploitation and racism. . . We need to acknowledge the obscenity that America is . . . America the beautiful is America the obscene."...

June 7, 2008

The Audacity of the Democrats

There was a pre-Lewinsky time, before moral relativism blurred America's vision, when associating with people like Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers would have automatically excluded someone from attaining the highest office in the land. Back then, a...

November 20, 2007

Left to the Wolves

How a man who risked his life in Iraq was abandoned by the United StatesThere are stories in this world that were it not for the injustice that forever curses humanity, would not need to be told. This is one of them. Still, I am hesitant making it pu...

April 17, 2007

Hypocrisy has a Human Price on the Streets of Baghdad

Author's note: Some names in this piece have been changed to protect individual identities.I have observed first-hand the effects of the Bush Administration's new Iraq security plan since it began two months ago. Street violence in Baghdad and s...

June 2, 2006

Al Gore and the Limits of Recycling

Have you noticed the drive—by media's blossoming love affair with Al Gore? Like so many springtime infatuations, this one is likely to end badly. Faced with polls indicating Hillary's un—electability in 2008, and fearful of her energizing...

March 11, 2006

Terror Meets Delusion: The Murder of Tom Fox

An American peace activist is slaughtered by Islamists Yesterday, peace activist Tom Fox was found murdered in Iraq. Fox, along with fellow activists Harmeet Singh Sooden, Norman Kember, and James Loney was kidnapped in Baghdad on November 26, 2005. ...

January 2, 2006

The limits of "transgressive" art

Salvatore Scuotto is an Italian artist from Naples who is famous for the nativity scenes he creates. His latest masterpiece is a nativity scene featuring naked women and transvestites standing near the baby Jesus. This highly respectful work, evidenc...

February 17, 2005

The meaning of Lynne Stewart

"I don't believe in anarchist violence but in directed violence. That would be violence directed at the institutions which perpetuate capitalism, racism, sexism, and at the people who are the appointed guardians of those institutions and accompanied ...