I went to DC three weeks before my wedding because there are two things that matter to me right now: marrying the love of my life and ending the Afghanistan War. In her memoir, A Woman Among Warlords, Parliamentarian Malalai Joya reminds us that on July 6, 2008 the U.S. military bombed a wedding party [...]
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
When I was in junior high, I read the Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov. It laid out a vision of the rise and fall of empires that had a profound impact on my understanding of macro-history. Reading Andre Gunder-Frank’s ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age in college provided me factual underpinnings for my understanding [...]
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
All of our messages are intertwined. While some may question the utility of staying in the streets without “unified demands,” the people of Occupy Wall Street understand that the only way to make real change is to challenge the system by standing up and being counted. In public. Watch Medea’s interview on #OccupyWallStreet with Oz [...]
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
For those who follow political news, you’ll recognize the title of this post as a quote from Obama’s speech to the Congressional Black Caucus annual awards dinner on Saturday. His speech has gotten attention from across the media spectrum. According to Rachel Maddow, the mainstream press unfairly focused on the critical points in his speech. [...]
Monday, September 26, 2011
Significant violence in Afghanistan over the past two weeks included the assassination of former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, and an attack on the CIA office in Kabul. In Pakistan, the revelation that the Pakistani military would not go after the Haqqani network led to criticism and threats of cuts to US military aid to Pakistan. Reflections [...]
Friday, September 23, 2011
This week, the White House launched their “We the People” petition site. Don’t confuse this with the National Endowment For the Humanities site. On the positive side, the White House guarantees an official response to any petition that reaches 5,000 signatures within 30 days. The site launched yesterday and I immediately put up a petition for the U.S. [...]
Friday, October 7, 2011
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