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Blazing the Trail Or Covering It?
It is clear that the failed terrorist attack on the Delta/Northwest airplane preparing to land in Detroit this past Friday at the end of its flight from Amsterdam demands serious analysis. What is less clear is how seriously that analysis will be...
Confusion Begets Fear
There is something about the reporting of terrorism that seems to bring out tendencies to confuse, rather than inform. Consider the case of a possible precedent for the attempted attack on Friday’s Delta/Northwest flight during its approach...
New U.S. Policy Towards Russia – Worrying News for Eastern Europe?
On 17 of July at European Council on International Relations a letter was published signed by 22 former presidents, intellectual and policy makers from Central and Eastern Europe announcing their mistrust in the new rapprochement policy with Russia ....
Terror Pornography
Last month, in posing the “inconvenient hypothesis” that there was a pornographic quality to the propaganda photographs that Dorothea Lange took of the destitute victims of the Great Depression, I drew upon Plato’s “Republic”...
Berkeley-Style Chutzpah
The first time I presented a Chutzpah of the Week award to the Berkeley City Council (for their rather innovative effort to bring to account John Yoo’s role in Bush Administration atrocities invoked in the name of its “Global War on Terror“),...
The Disaster Mentality
I have been reading Bill McKibben’s latest piece for The New York Review with great fascination. It is a review of the book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit. As McKibben makes...
Oversight And Accountability
The ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) story is basically concerned with the accountability of both institutions and individuals responsible for oversight. The underlying question concerns what can and should be done when such an institution...
Negative Thoughts About False Positives
Apparently, I have not been writing about instances of synchronicity for a couple of years; but, since one of the first such instances I detected happened to involve Facebook, a curious coincidence of events has prompted me to return to the subject....
