So, Glenn Beck says: “Something that is beyond man is happening. America today begins to turn back to God. For too long, this country has wandered in darkness.” I don’t understand this. There’s very little content to this statement. Will we be scrapping our nuclear arsenal anytime soon? The content of the “turning back” is [...]
Archive for August, 2010
What’s the Turning?
Posted: August 29, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Gandhi, Glenn Beck, God, Hitler, mass meetings, Nazis, Restoring Honor, satyagraha
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New Orleans, I Love You.
Posted: August 29, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Department of Homeland Security, Episcopal Relief and Development, FEMA, flood, Katrina, New Orleans
The thing I remember most is the smell. I had nightmares about it. I woke up our second night in New Orleans under a pool table, pulling myself out of a nightmare with one component: the horrible smell of a basement apartment that had been submerged, food and cats and all, in the flood and [...]
With General Petraeus’ stop on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric now halfway over, it’s worth taking a moment to unpack the unchallenged, false assertions and implications he’s piled up thus far on his media tour. We decided to look into the claims he made about “oil spots” of “progress” during his interview with NBC’s [...]
Media Failing to Ask Tough Questions on Afghanistan War…Again
Posted: August 15, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: act.ly, Afghanistan, Air Force, Army, Brave New Foundation, David Gregory, insurgents, journalism, Katie Couric, marines, media, Meet the Press, military, Navy, Obama, petition, Petraeus, propaganda, Rethink Afghanistan, Robert Greenwald, spin, Taliban, troops, violence
Sign our act.ly petition to tell the next journalists on Petraeus’ media tour to ask tough questions and expose his effort to extend the Afghanistan War. General Petraeus is on a media tour to sell the idea that the U.S. military is “making progress” in Afghanistan, a well-worn message aimed at convincing elites to extend [...]
A Response to Rafia Zakaria’s Response to My Response to TIME Magazine
Posted: August 5, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Brave New Foundation, Left, Ms. Magazine, political equality, Rafia Zakaria, Rethink Afghanistan, women, women's rights
Over on Ms. Magazine‘s blog, Rafia Zakaria takes issue with my response to TIME Magazine’s pro-war, propaganda cover art. Zakaria and I agree on the critical importance of getting women into real decision-making positions in the reconciliation and reintegration processes. However, Zakaria falls right into the bad frame pushed by TIME’s cover art, and in [...]
