The Anti-Manichaeist

I had something of a surreal experience last night, reading a letter from Jim Wallis on behalf of both Sojourners and Call to Renewal, while watching the remake of A Lion in Winter with the lead parts played by two ex-Star Trek Capitans, Glen Close and Patrick Stewart.
Wallis is trying to leverage his success […]

I am glad to hear that Venezuela received $768 million dollars from Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) to construct hydroelectric powerplants and to diversify their economy away from oil. Apparently, to get the loans, Venezuela needed to use some pragmatic diplomacy, inasmuch as US policy now is to oppose all loans from multilateral banks […]

I’ve been writing more letters to the Evangelicals for Social Action’s Prism E-pistle, practically pleading for attention for my idea to depoliticize abortion. Well, my pleadings were pleasantly answered when Bill Samuels, webservant of Seamless-Garment.org commented on my idea.

I can’t pass over briefly commenting on the recently announced Catholic Church’s ban on gay priests.

Top Ukrainian Journalist Taras Kuzio gives a comprehensive overview of the blessings that have happened to Ukraine since the Orange Revolution.
Dan McMinn gives a condensed version.
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I can’t resist passing along this important letter Joe Carson just sent to Ted Haggard…
November 21, 2005
Rev. Ted Haggard, President
National Association of Evangelicals

Re: Applying the Method of “For the Health of the Nation” to the
Engineering Profession?

Dan McMinn at Orange Revolution has a good post on him and his wife’s visit to Chernobyl. It is a serious tribute to the consequences of human folly and when we don’t act decisively to deal with situations that have a great potential to get seriously worse.
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If you got a fair amount of time on your hands, a comprehensive article has come out in Ukraine’s most scholarly newspaper, Zerkalo Nedeli, entitled, “One Year after Maidan” that discusses the results of a survey of Ukrainian political attitudes.

the WaPo has a decent article on how Brad Pitt is lending his star power to the issues of fair trade reforms and also studying the issues surrounding fair trade policy changes. It raises the gamut of important questions of what sorts of rule changes should be pressed for and how does one […]

The Asia Times Online has a well done article on how GWII has changed the dynamics of US politics. It seems the neo-conservative “Let’s take over Iraq” agenda and the domestic republican party “Let’s totally dominate the US Gov’t” agenda have come into conflict with each other, as the fear factor has turned […]