[Warning: Angry Post] On November 21, Atlanta cops serving a no-knock warrant gunned down 88-year-old African American (of course) Kathryn Johnston in her own home. The controversy now is about whether or not a police informant set up the warrant, or was told to lie about it afterwards. Franky, I couldn’t give two shits. We [...]

Idaho town asks residents to own guns By JESSE HARLAN ALDERMAN, Associated Press Writer Thu Nov 16, 5:26 PM ET After seeing the chaos of Hurricane Katrina, a city councilor in this tiny Idaho town founded by pacifist Quakers came up with a novel idea. Ordinance 208, passed by the City Council on Tuesday, asks [...]

With some sadness and with not the least desire to devalue the experiences I have had with comrades, nor to minimize the hard work, nor the consciousness and concience, nor the friendship of many comrades, I am herein announcing and explaining my definitive rejection of Marxism in its current organizational forms, be they called Marxist-Leninist [...]

I am linking two pieces from Asia Times, one by M K Bhadrakumar, and one by Gabriel Kolko. Kolko’s is second, and zooms back from Bhadrakumar’s relative microanalysis of realignments in the Middle East. M K Bhadrakumar served as a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service for more than 29 years, with postings including [...]

male privilege personified. every freaking college boy who is complicit supporting the show should know about the below article. and women should think what we’re licking the boots of. also see analysis here, which relates the below to murder/rape in Iraq – and a response to that analysis – i’ve been thinking about the lack [...]

Two days ago, alone with a colicky baby in arms, I was channel-surfing, when I came upon an HBO documentary called Thin. It was shot in an expensive treatment facility for eating disorders. The profiles of the women featured, with feeding tubes and suicide-attempt scars and some with the ability to vomit on demand, were [...]

Before we deconstruct the assassination of Pierre Gemayel in Beirut two days ago, we need to go back in history, to 1982. September 15, 1982. Israeli occupation forces in Lebanon, commanded by Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, surround two large Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. The names of the camps are Sabra and Shatila. No one [...]

[Also published at huffingtonpost. Comments there recieve a very large audience.] * * * Here is a thought exercise. Think of all the euphemisms used to describe the distinctly male external appendage, or eroticized acts from the male point of view, that call to mind conquest, war, or violence. Examples: I’d like to hit that [...]

[Dismal and dull as it is, this may be one of the most signficant events of the decade.] Hard US lessons, harder landings By Max Fraad Wolff Reposted from Asia Times Online The arriving Democrats in the US Congress are likely to plan little and execute on even less in the way of seismic economic [...]

The top contenders for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination, according to the latest poll, are Hillary Clinton (33% of likely D-voters support her), Barack Obama (15%), John Edwards (14%), Al Gore (14%), and John Kerry (7%)… sorry, John. The same poll has 63% of the likely D-voting population opposing the war in Iraq. That position [...]