Neo-Nazis try to take over N.D. town; hundreds protest

And a considerably more biased account, albeit with more pictures: Neo-Nazis trying to take over North Dakota town sent running by Native American and anti-fascist activistsI make it a point to stress, whenever I sense conversations drifting into dualistic good-guy/bad-guy-isms, that everyone ( Read more... )

(irritated blogger warning.)

(possibly i should just write about our visit this morning by a nice french monk named sebastian.)

(oh well, keep reading anyway.)

Glenn Greenwald asserts that MLK's vehement condemnations of US militarism are more relevant than ever, and raises some very good points in doing so. I feel similar today to the way I ( Read more... )

Did any of you see Obama's speech/sermon last night, at the memorial service for the Sandy Hook victims in Newtown, CT? I just watched it today. I've been deliberately not engaging with this horror, not reading everything I can, or wading through it like I'm sure many of you in the States are -- I just can't do that, right now. But I did watch ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder what the heck I'm doing. Not just what I'm doing here in Iraqi Kurdistan, but in general. What am I doing? Why now? Why here? How can I do it better? What's it, anyway ( Read more... )