On Iran, Ahminajad at Columbia, and Free Speech.

Posted on September 25, 2007

All of the recent hysteria over Iranian President Ahminajad’s visit to Columbia University this week got me thinking about Iran and Persian politics, specifically the Iranian Revolution, which is one of the saddest tales in modern political disaster.

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10 Steps to Fascism

Posted on September 24, 2007

In a new article for the UK Guardian, Naomi Klein goes down the 10-point checklist used during every authoritarian coup in history and shows just how far down the road the USA under Bush has gone.

The worst part, of course, being that no American paper would dare to print this kind of thing, it had to get printed in the UK.

Again, this is your wake-up call. Get out in the streets and fight back while you still can.

if voting could change anything…

Posted on September 19, 2007

Emma Goldman used to say that if voting could change anything it would be illegal. I’m inclined to agree with her and I’m endlessly frustrated y the illusion many people still maintain that our electoral system is somehow “representative” or “democratic”. There is nothing even remotely democratic about a system that claims 1 man can “represent” a nation of 300 million. It’s simply impossible. The United States is too big, too diverse, too divided to ever be accurately represented by anyone who doesn’t have a severe multiple personality disorder.

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