The Anti-Manichaeist

Kerry says he believes Life begins at Conception
What is at issue for him is the separation of Church and State. He doesn’t believe he can impose his beliefs on others legally. He would have voted for the PBAban if it had allowed for an exception for the woman’s health.
What really seems […]

James K Galbraith gives us a list of issues the election should deal with and a brief analysis of each one. The paper more or less reads as a keynesian critique of Bush’s economic policies that also is critical of the manipulation surrounding GWII and its economic costs/impacts. I give my own summary […]

The ‘prop-agenda’ war
The above article goes into the forms of propaganda used by the BushAdmin to build support in the US for immediate regime-change in Iraq.
Propaganda typically is judged negatively, but “facts” rarely speak for themselves as far as their normative significance and since action requires solidarity or the formation of a majority-opinion, […]

Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder
Almost 17 percent of those who fought in Iraq reported symptoms of major depression, severe anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder, compared with about 11 percent of the troops who served in Afghanistan.
And so we’re doing worse than GWI, but better than Vietnam.
Hardly a surprise given the joys of urban warfare and the extended […]