Month September 2005

Why Palestine matters

Many people don’t know what happened. They don’t know that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly driven off their land in 1948 in violation of international law. The right of expelled and excluded Palestinians to return to their land…

Katrina leaves a toxic nightmare

This Dallas News article is the best, most exhaustive article I’ve seen on the multiple, highly serious environmental nightmares that NOLA, southern Louisiana, and the Gulf now face. Yet, the federal government, with the exception of EPA, are asleep at…

The petulant president

The deepest wound is not that he was incapable of defending the country but that he has shown he lacked the will to do so. In Bush’s own evangelical language, he revealed his heart. The press disclosed a petulant, vacillating…