[I have glanced at the web site here of a Yale prof, Mazin Qumsiyeh. Presumably it reflects the character of the debate now being experienced by Yale students....
As the reports begin to dribble out of our abuses of Iraqi prisoners apparently sanctioned by our military intelligence operatives there and, thus, the direct...
I have just watched our Chief of Staff, General Richard Myers, and Senator John McCain being interviewed on ABC and responding to questions about: 1) the now...
[I pass along the following posted to the PeaceEfforts list. Ed Kent] Seymour Hersh has an indepth and very graphic account of the torture of Iraqi prisoners...
[The sites here are followed by a few snippets. This is a national disgrace -- and disaster. Please ask your elected representatives to comment. Ed Kent] ...
Who wins in the Fallujah handover? As marines hand over the city to a new Iraqi security force, local insurgents say it's a victory over occupiers. By Scott...
Not to dismiss the seriousness of the abuse of imprisoned Iraqis by Americans, I recall a study done some decades ago with college students that had to be...
-The Stanford Experiment by P. Zimbardo. I am a former prisoner and i attend Sonoma State University, I have been hurt by many on campus, because I am a...
Although the U.S. (through the efforts of Eleanor Roosevelt as our UN representative) played a large role in formulating the Universal Declaration of Human...
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR A President Beyond the Law By ANTHONY LEWIS President Bush has made it clear, time and again, that law must bend to what he regards as...
[I should have mentioned that Ben Scotch was former chief counsel of the Vermont Supreme Court and Executive Director of the Vermont Civil Liberties Union....
As I teach in these areas, I try to alert my students to the fact that imprisonment is an incredibly destructive situation for all involved and that the fact...
I don't know exactly what to make of the Rumsfeld testimony yesterday, most of which I watched -- it looked to be an expression of irritation/embarrassment...
Joy Catherine Carroll sends this along. IMHO it is outrageous to pin this on this kid. She was simply carrying out the mandate implicit in so much of the...
Dorothy Naor sends the following on from Israel. Dorothy and I -- unlike so many today -- share all too vivid memories of WW2. Ed Kent -- Dear All, I do not...
[A very dear and peace loving friend sent the following along a few days ago. I debated passing it on. But in a way it captures what lies at the heart of our...
[For the benefit of those who do not get the New Yorker. It looks as though the man first in line for court marshall is one of the picture takers? Hm! I...
The pictures of Abu Ghraib torture reminded me of the mug shots of lynchings circulated in U.S. drug stores as picture postcards in the 1920s and 1930s. I...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/opinion/13COXX.html -- Yesterday the NY Times (5/13) had an op-ed piece on where the jobs are -- and are not. If one goes to...
only the naive, dishonest or inexperienced would call toolmakers a category of manual dexterity, as if there is not considerable knowledge and intellectual...
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Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 by In These Times <http://www.inthesetimes.com/> Cold Turkey by Kurt Vonnegut Many years ago, I was so innocent I still...
[This looks to be a fair contrast. One's vote MAY make the difference. Ed Kent] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tiburon, California, May 14, 2004 Bush or Kerry? Stark...
The Gestapo. The Geheime Staatspolizei (German for Secret State Police, abbreviated) OGPU All Union State Political Board. Soviet Secret Police (1923 - 1934). ...
from Progressive Secretary: Help rebuild these group shut down by blatant censoring. Andy Johnson had some of the best groups on Yahoo. Help rebuild them ...
I assume that many, if not most, will have seen today's NY Times on the chaotic non chain of command holding Iraqis imprisoned, but the Monitor fills in the...
I hate to say it, but the CUNY Faculty Senate Discussion list did the same (i.e. banned both categories of participants -- students and alums and specific...
What I most deplore about the right wing in this country is its cowardly scapegoating of selected victims. I first became familiar with this right wing tactic...
But the population of many schools is even more skewed than the student population as a whole. Some 60 percent of all black students in New York State,...
Manifestly the Bush administration has lost it. Ed Kent [from the Monitor today] Such unknowns suggest to some observers the broader disappointments that the...
Last night I awoke to spell smoke. This happens not infrequently when the winds are blowing lightly from the West. We live about 200 yards above the Amtrak...
