Whichever leading candidate wins the 2008 election, the there is little indication that U.S. policy will shift away significantly from using military force in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which is increasingly being recognized by international experts not as a solution, but part of the problem.
I was walking down the street when I noticed a man sitting behind the wheel of a car, cursing and angry. His face was a mask of rage. I stopped and contemplated the source of his fury and assumed it was the election. Clearly, this man was fed up with the two-party farce, the barring of non-corporate candidates from public debates, the lies, the corruption, and the fact that a vote for either McCain or Obama is a vote for the same gluttonous, murderous culture.
I pull out my camera, but the mothers quickly tell the children to hide their faces. Photographing people who are planning to live permanently at Loi Tailang is okay. But photographing civilians who plan to return to Burma is a no-no. If the photos get into the wrong hands, they, the SPDC, could find out that they have ties with the Shan State Army, and kill them.
This strategy of choosing an alleged “lesser evil” because he/she might be influenced by some mythical “popular movement” would be naïve if put forth by a high school student. Professors Chomsky and Zinn know better. If it’s incremental change they want, why not encourage their many readers to vote for Ralph Nader or Cynthia McKinney?
Antonio Graceffo explains why you can never be too old to start learning a foreign language.
American voters should shift their electoral strategy from seeking to put the lesser of evils into power to seeking to elect the force for the greatest good.
Antonio Graceffo describes some of his experiences learning foreign languages in a perhaps slightly less orthodox method.
Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in an interview that Israel must withdraw from the occupied territories. A closer look, however, reveals that his remarks are not anything dramatically different from what other Israeli leaders have said. Nor is it any consideration for international law or concern about the rights of the Palestinian people that is driving any potential shift in Israeli policy.
An analysis that dissects an argument proposed by prominent neoconservative Robert Kagan in the journal Foreign Affairs in which he essentially suggests that a return to a Cold War-like paradigm would benefit U.S. foreign policy.
Antonio Graceffo writes about his experience learning foreign languages and offers his advise to others seeking to do the same.
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