Thursday, September 27, 2001
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
Saturday, September 22, 2001
Friday, September 14, 2001
by Phil Agre
[Much more in link.]
Should we go out and get the people who blew up our buildings? Of course we should. If we can't get them nonviolently law, should we start dropping bombs on impoverished countries? Maybe we should, if it will actually achieve the stated goal. A world that has graduated beyond the traditional conceptions of war may not be able to avoid military action, regrettable as it always is. Evil is real, whatever excuse it might present. The important thing is to draw a distinction between military action, as the exercise within a framework of international law of the power of a legitimate democratic state, and war, as the imposition of a total social order that is the antithesis of democracy, and that, in the current technological conditions of war, has no end in sight.
Thursday, September 13, 2001
Blaming the victim -- They Can't See Why They Are Hated
Eyewitness -- Sitting in my windowless cubicle, responding to emails in my usual morning routine when that first plane struck my building - I was almost knocked out of my chair. (Scroll down this page to Evan4's post about escaping from the 89th floor of Tower #1. )
Sunday, September 09, 2001

Isn't that great?


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