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Polemics and Genuflection

Political buzzwords, empty slogans, narrative framing - Whatever you want to call it. Right or wrong they are proving effective.

Three issues immediately come to mind where this is significant:

~ Wars of Aggression
~ Torture
~ Healthcare

Wars of Aggression - We fight them there so we don't have to fight them here!

What I Hope to Get Out of the DFWPPS

http://www.newtexasradical.org/node/238

There is a person who is very interested in the Dallas/Fort Worth Project for a Participatory Society (DFWPPS). I already sense we will be good friends. He has a keen understanding of power structures and social relations. He also has a way of asking me questions that get me talking. He asked me what I hope to get out of the DFWPPS.

I hope everyone interested in the group finds themselves in here, somewhere.

War on Afghanistan: Not So Just

http://www.zcommunications.org/blog/view/3608

The other day I posted an article from Yahoo! on how the US military demolished a clinic in Afghanistan due to a Taliban soldier seeking aid there.

Of course the story that the clinic was cleared of civilians before being attacked has not been independently confirmed and like most news stories is left to the word of the foreign invader.

But it hardly matters. Bombing the clinic was A) illegal, and B) unnecessary.

Under the 4th Geneva Conventions,