Month May 2003

Powell knew he was lying to the U.N. “Straw, Powell had serious doubts over their Iraqi weapons claims Jack Straw and his US counterpart, Colin Powell, privately expressed serious doubts about the quality of intelligence on Iraq’s banned weapons programme…

Sojourners Christians for Justice and Peace

Touchscreen voting The Holy Grail for the Green Party (and other third parties) is to get Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) and Proportional Representation (PR) implemented in this county. Doing so would insure that third parties get their fair share of representation. Proportional…

“Because it’s there” Sir Edmund Hillary, on this the 50th anniversary of his ascent of Everest, is rightfully being honored worldwide, most especially in Nepal, where Everest is. Through the years he has continually and steadily stated that ascents of…

More on the “tyranny of structurelessness” From Murray Bookchin, founder of the Institute for Social Ecology “If anything, functioning on the basis of consensus assures that important decision-making will be either manipulated by a minority or collapse completely. And the…