Add comment May 15th, 2008 08:01am Rowan Wolf
What with the Democratic campaign wall to wall, and disasters in Myanmar and China, some things are getting very little coverage. Here are some news items that I have found interesting.
Regarding the massive earthquake in China, there are concerns about damage to nuclear plants.
Add comment May 15th, 2008 07:47am Rowan Wolf
Republished from Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention In Iran. Originally published May 10, 2008.
In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all.
Add comment May 14th, 2008 08:53pm Rowan Wolf
By Rowan Wolf
I have been heart sick, and I can’t quite shake it. Perhaps it is one of my “global depressions,” and perhaps things are as insane as they seem. I want to share three events with you that all seem to spring from the same source … the same story. One is the story of a wolf, one a story of a people, and one a casually uttered threat.
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Add comment May 14th, 2008 08:52pm Rowan Wolf
By Suzanne Baroud - managing editor of PalestineChronicle.com, and a regular contributor to IslamOnline.net.
Nothing seems to work right for Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton in her attempts to once more dwell in the White House. Senator Barack Obama, despite inflated controversies continued his glide to the Democratic nomination with a landslide victory and a marginal defeat in the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, respectively.
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Add comment May 13th, 2008 07:08am Rowan Wolf
By Rowan Wolf
As we have watched the government of Myanmar block aid to victims of cyclone Nargis, anger and frustration have been present in every report. It is only to be expected that a government would try to aid the victims of disaster as quickly as possible. The evidence of the Myanmar government’s lack of response is read as just another example of how bad it really is. While I agree that the military government of Myanmar is a “bad” government, they did not get there without help, and they don’t stand alone in lack of response to disaster.
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Add comment May 12th, 2008 07:40am Rowan Wolf
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com
On February 12, 2008, Arab League information ministers issued a communique outlining ‘tough’ guidelines for Arab satellite channels. The new guidelines specifically prohibited the broadcasting of negative reporting of heads of state, religious or national figures.
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Add comment May 11th, 2008 10:23pm Rowan Wolf
By Jason Miller of Thomas Paine’s corner
“What this means is that corporations and those who run them cannot stop exploiting resources and amassing wealth until they have… .I cannot finish this sentence, because the truth is that can never stop; like cancer, they can only continue to expand until they kill the host.”
–Derrick Jensen
Yes. It’s another anti-capitalist rant by Jason Miller. Big surprise! I’m the associate editor for Cyrano’s Journal Online, the anti-capitalist tool. We’re not big fans of free market ideology and its tacit socioeconomic license to rape, pillage and plunder.
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Add comment May 11th, 2008 08:14am Rowan Wolf
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring
According to a little heard news, the current Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani has reportedly decided to drop the family prefix of Makhdoom from his name saying he wants to serve people and not be served by them. Gillani said the honorific “Makhdoom”, which means “one who is served” is no longer appropriate as he believes in serving the people.
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Add comment May 9th, 2008 09:54am Rowan Wolf
By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power
The end of everything we call life is close at hand and cannot be evaded. H.G. Wells, 1946
I recently received an email from a reader, frustrated with my insistence on holding a vision of what is possible alongside the dismal, inevitable current realities of civilization’s collapse. Admonishing me to bear in mind America’s Oprah and NASCAR world view and therefore abdicate any sense of optimism I might have, this reader accused me of suggesting that we should 12 Step our way through Armageddon. Rather than being offended, however, I was overcome with gratitude for this reader’s image, frustrated with me as he may be, because in spite of the regular “wordsmithing” that I do as a writer, I always feel a sense of relief and validation when someone else gives words that I may not yet have for what I’ve been thinking, feeling, or doing.
Add comment May 7th, 2008 08:00am Rowan Wolf
By John Steppling
I think your points about Iron Man are right, and it’s worth taking note, again, of the Orientalism implicit in these projects. Simply by virtue of having a colonial occupation in Afghanistan presented in a completely de-contextualized way, one creates the knee-jerk reactions about Islam and terrorism that the FOX news channel likes to peddle. The mysterious east has always been presented in the west as timeless and mysterious –and the motives of its people indecipherable and shrouded in veils of ancient tribal rights the progressive west can’t (and doesn’t want to) fathom.
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