Posted on February 9, 2008 by Jason Barr
This morning, my grandfather sent me an email “action alert” from the American Family Association urging protest of the recent Berkeley, California City Council resolution that declared the downtown Marine recruiting office “unwanted” and urged the recruiters to leave town. This article does not respond to that issue, but rather to the subject line of [...]
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Posted on November 15, 2007 by Jason Barr
This article from today’s International Herald Tribune gives an excellent example of what Chalmers Johnson calls “blowback”, from the title of his 2000 book (revised ed. 2004) Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, in which he essentially predicted a 9/11-like attack as one of the “unintended consequences” of American policy towards so-called “developing [...]
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Posted on September 11, 2007 by Jason Barr
I wasn’t going to do this, I was just going to let the post about Stirling Bridge stand as my statement about 9/11, but I just wrote this for my Livejournal and thought it was worth sharing here.
“Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, [...]
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Posted on September 7, 2007 by Jason Barr
This article by Scott Ritter, hosted at Commondreams.org (originally published by Al-Jazeera) argues it did.
Americans, along with the rest of the world, are starting to wake up to the uncomfortable fact that President George Bush not only lied to them about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (the ostensible excuse for the March [...]
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Posted on September 5, 2007 by Jason Barr
Given the connections we hear on the official news and in the government’s pronunciations literally every day, probably multiple times per day, between Iran and terrorism, one cannot help but get the strong impression that the only (or at least primary) motives Iran would have for wanting nuclear power would be military. We have been [...]
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Posted on April 11, 2007 by Jason Barr
“Each day the war goes on the hatred increases in the heart of the Vietnamese and in the hearts of those of humanitarian instinct. The Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies. It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that [...]
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Posted on January 13, 2007 by Jason Barr
Absolution Revolution has moved! You can read this article at http://absolutionrevolution.com/blog/2007/01/13/and-now-this/
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Posted on January 13, 2007 by Jason Barr
Absolution Revolution has moved! You can read this article at http://absolutionrevolution.com/blog/2007/01/13/a-short-comment-on-bushs-speech/
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Posted on January 9, 2007 by Jason Barr
Absolution Revolution has moved! You can read this article at http://absolutionrevolution.com/blog/2007/01/09/potentially-disturbing-news-from-the-middle-east/
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