tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34056902011-07-08T01:02:24.881-05:00FrankendesignA restless graphic designer bounces from reactionary to proactive in this anthropological soap opera of self awareness.Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.comBlogger1261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-5283753665303702002009-07-30T12:20:00.007-05:002009-07-30T13:09:48.356-05:00Innovation down the drainLast year they installed flushless/waterless urinals in the men's restrooms on the second floor of our building. They are supposedly revolutionary in how little they require maintenance and how much water they save. What's cool about working here is that we often get to be guinea pigs for products being tested for use in the hotels. Much like the awesome espresso machine that sits uncleaned and Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-57176412686262037762008-08-28T15:35:00.006-05:002009-07-07T18:28:13.612-05:00Seriously old schoolJohn Malmo's Two-Minute Business Pearls continue to annoy the crap out of me. They come on 91.1 WKNO around the 7:30 AM break. I'm sure it all sounds great when accompanied by the soundtrack of Leave It To Beaver streaming from an RCA Flip Top. But sandwiched between Morning Edition segments about a historic African American presidential nominee and ground breaking autism research it sounds more Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-12860675521994632592008-01-06T21:13:00.005-06:002009-07-09T09:44:01.697-05:00No logoHere's a bit of old news, but I've been meaning to post this for quite some time. And driving out to a local electronics chain in the burbs Saturday night reinforced the interest and appropriateness as I gawked at the new LED billboards illuminating the sprawling conduits of the shopping mall mystique that is Germantown.Billboards became illegal in Brazil beginning in 2007. There are great photo Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-27931598996828146582007-09-03T11:44:00.004-05:002009-11-08T21:09:47.891-06:00Comfort is overratedCame across this gem of Japanese apartment design from the Mister Shape blog. "By making the structure physically challenging to navigate, the architects hope to keep people young and active longer. The philosophy (is) that comfort makes you grow old quick...."Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-39410256385155321852007-06-11T13:28:00.004-05:002009-11-08T21:11:06.357-06:00Responsible brandingNY Times Magazine has been running columns on responsible branding. This week the article starts with the words "Corporate social responsibility." Worth checking out. The core premise features the shift of corporations giving back to the poor from sales to the wealthy to brands being directly targeted at the poor or needy with those branded items being a necessity among them -- the responsibilityMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1165950674700130702006-12-12T12:48:00.001-06:002009-06-26T14:38:12.142-05:00Sorry, it’s been a while. The pace has barely been manageable, so the blog was the first to suffer. What has happened since my last post?Got a new Harper’s, with an editorial about Progressives needing to stop supporting gun control—in lieu of us actually needing them in the Jeffersonian sense one day—and a frightful feature revealing the Christian right’s new front: American history education, Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1161184303424898692006-10-18T09:47:00.000-05:002006-10-23T23:53:45.316-05:00We progressive liberals are guilty of a set of no-win contradictions. We accuse the current administration of a mad cowboy agenda devoid of the ability to respectfully negotiate any situation while wielding a mighty sword from an inflatable pedestal ourselves accepting no compromise. On the other hand, our liberal politicians enter the circus evangelizing against corporate politics and election Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1160775409035409692006-10-13T16:06:00.000-05:002006-10-13T16:36:49.046-05:00First things first. Strep sux! Jack's Big Music Show rox! The boys tested positive for strep after a weekend of very high fevers. So they get shots, start feeling really great, and, of course, I get strep and spend two days in bed and four more days on antibiotics with all the glory of their side effects castrating my mobility and breaching my fragile bond with sanity. At this point, I'm claimingMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1159976433063004312006-10-04T09:58:00.000-05:002006-10-04T11:09:10.740-05:00Brand desire. Sounds sexy. Sounds compelling. Catchy, especially as a branding slogan for a local creative firm, itself provoking what it advocates.Do I have brand desires? What about my desires? Do I really *need everything I desire? How compatible are need and desire? Will desire hold need's hand while out of the corner of his eye track the sultry movements of consumption and profit? Can need Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1159820149285510832006-10-02T15:03:00.000-05:002006-10-03T11:22:32.216-05:00I'm reading MTIV: Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer by Hillman Curtis, for the second time. The first time I just skimmed it. You see, I get this 'tude with any book about process, like some I'm-all-that is going to school me on process? But I got a good feeling from skimming through the book. Good enough, as a matter of fact, that now I'm reading it in earnest. Funny Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1159390559838821712006-09-27T15:12:00.000-05:002006-10-13T16:38:32.983-05:00We just finished an internal exercise to help us more definitively visualize our brand. As always, these discussions become mired in disagreement (yes, I'm typically the instigator and contrarian) about how far we can push to educate clients and/or attract clients who are more open to big ideas and more willing to play with experimentation. Why do I keep doing this? We are a company that has Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1159323844091176062006-09-26T21:09:00.000-05:002006-09-27T12:54:42.443-05:00Tiger swallowtail. Coming up on two weeks since, and the arm is healing nicely. Jonesing for the monarch on the other forearm. Seems Underground Art has put the piece front and center in their portfolio. Nice work Paul, and thanx, I'll be back soon.Now, about what Hugo said...I mean, metaphorically, I'm there. Bush can't really be the devil as there is no such thing. But it's certainly nice to Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1157997978550527332006-09-11T12:22:00.000-05:002006-09-27T16:45:11.246-05:00People all over the world are spending today in quiet reflection of personal tragedy. Should I really open my mouth? Note, I said personal tragedy, as opposed to national tragedy. It's sad to see so many innocent people paying the price for their government's despicable history of imperialism, both physical and mental. But dare I say this—it was Simon Bolivar who reminded us that in a democratic Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1156875104241126162006-08-29T12:46:00.000-05:002006-08-29T14:16:30.603-05:00Pulling away from Jackson, Mississippi, I was tuning the radio dial to lower frequencies hoping to find some listenable community radio when I came across an evangelical mouthing this gem: “Ladies and gentlemen, evolution is dead from the starting gate...(amen)...” And on the long road of nothing that is between Jackson and Mobile we had to stop in Lucedale for lunch. If I believed in miracles, Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1087418298112453202004-06-16T15:35:00.000-05:002004-06-16T15:38:18.113-05:00Potential baby names, in no particular order:
Seth
Paul
Rothko
Miles
Cole
August
Sydney
Cobalt
Aspen
Rollins
Cisco
Dakota
Salem
Logan
Elston
Jullian
Harmony
Paulette
Paulina
Sienna
Emma
Lucinda
Monet
Lorraine
Celeste
Sydney
Solstice
Melanie
Melody
Cayenne
Sage
Terra
Eve
Add to the list, make some suggestions. You have until November. And remember, we need two sets of names.Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1078800734019249922004-03-08T20:50:00.000-06:002004-03-08T20:55:15.780-06:00The 14 identifying characteristics of fascism
01. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism -- Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
02. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights -- Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1075336703101191632004-01-28T18:30:00.000-06:002004-01-28T18:40:32.123-06:00War in Iraq: Not a Humanitarian Intervention
Ken Roth
Human Rights Watch | January 2004
Humanitarian intervention was supposed to have gone the way of the 1990s. The use of military force across borders to stop mass killing was seen as a luxury of an era in which national security concerns among the major powers were less pressing and problems of human security could come to the fore. Somalia, Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1074536253180166592004-01-19T11:46:00.000-06:002004-01-19T12:22:07.983-06:00The holidays were a bust. The flu kept me isolated within a 200 sq. ft. area, but the down time (literally) allowed me to take in a short and incredibly inspiring Christopher Hitchens book: Letters to a Young Contrarian. Although I disagree with his stance on Iraq, I now understand and appreciate his point of view while accepting the notion that most Trotskyites embrace interventionism. The book Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1064839257118335572003-09-29T07:37:00.000-05:002003-09-29T07:58:24.930-05:00Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything's OK,
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black
- J.R. Cash
So it's been a while since I've really paid any attention to this 'blog. I've been trying to figure out where to take it. The unapologetic assault of the Bush administration grew tiresome, Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1063383935521938892003-09-12T11:25:00.000-05:002003-09-12T11:25:35.520-05:00J.R. [Johnny] Cash, 1932-2003Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1058891458971389732003-07-22T11:30:00.000-05:002003-07-22T11:30:58.940-05:00The following is my email to NPR's Morning Edition.
Regarding Deroy Murdock's commentary that the Bush administration has nothing to apologize for: when he said that opponents of the war have been silent on the discovery of mass graves, so has everyone else. The rhetoric and the headlines continue to be that America is safer and a threat to America has been eliminated. Saddam's inhumanity to Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-1057855355349482862003-07-10T11:42:00.000-05:002003-07-10T11:55:21.830-05:004,000 miles.
Seven states.
Herds of buffalo and elk.
Two moose and quite a few mule deer, bulls included.
Two of the famed Yellowstone Druid wolf pack.
A pair of black bears, four grizzlies, two with a pair of cubs, with one of those grizzlies showing up about 30 feet behind us on the last trail we hiked -- yikes.
Native and cowboy cultures still rife with tension.
Log cabin bed and breakfasts Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-950987702003-05-30T17:18:00.000-05:002003-05-30T17:21:04.000-05:00Save Our Spooks
Nicholas D. Kristof
New York Times | 30 May 2003
On Day 71 of the Hunt for Iraqi W.M.D., yesterday, once again nothing turned up.
Maybe we'll do better on Day 72. But we might have better luck searching for something just as alarming: the growing evidence that the administration grossly manipulated intelligence about those weapons of mass destruction in the runup to the Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-950404762003-05-29T11:47:00.000-05:002003-05-30T17:22:20.000-05:00Troops find no bodies at Saddam site
Dafna Linzer
Associated Press | 29 May 2003
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. troops have found no sign of bodies or even a bunker at the site where intelligence had said Saddam Hussein was sleeping on the war's opening night, a senior officer said Thursday.
Acting on an intelligence tip, U.S. forces launched their campaign on March 20 by firing more than 40 Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-938011112003-05-05T09:24:00.000-05:002003-05-05T09:31:32.000-05:00Dissent and Democracy
A Special, Live Two-Hour Edition of Chicago Public Radio's Odyssey
Wednesday, May 7, 2003, from 8 to 10 pm CT
"We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent."
So said Senator J. William Fulbright in a 1964 speech in the U.S. Senate. With Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-916345292003-03-29T22:39:00.000-06:002003-03-29T22:39:40.373-06:00Vaclav Havel has warned that democracy arouses mistrust in some parts of the world because it lacks a "spiritual dimension that connects all cultures and, in fact, all humanity." For many people, the concept of rights, with responsibility and obligation, has been displaced by the idea of rights as the entitlements of individuals freed of "any and all ties of reciprocal obligation and mutual Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-903072062003-03-07T10:25:00.000-06:002003-03-07T10:25:27.340-06:00America as a gated community
Brain Eno
Time Magazine, International Edition | 30 December 2002
(...)
Too often, the U.S. presents the "American way" as the only way, insisting on its kind of free market Darwinism as the only acceptable" model of human progress." But isn't civilization what happens when people stop behaving as if they're trapped in a ruthless Darwinian struggle and start Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-888115552003-02-09T14:41:00.000-06:002003-02-09T14:42:38.000-06:00The coming war with Iraq
Deciphering the Bush administration's motives
Michael T. Klare, Professor of Peace & World Security Studies, Hampshire College | Foreign Policy In Focus
(...)
There are, indeed, advantages to being positioned on the inside of a powerful empire with control over the world’s second-largest supply of untapped petroleum. If nothing else, American motorists will be able to Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-874233922003-01-14T10:34:00.000-06:002003-01-14T10:34:04.950-06:00"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today [is] my own government. ... [F]or the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent."
Martin Luther King, Jr. 1967Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-863372842002-12-20T16:37:00.000-06:002002-12-20T16:45:01.000-06:00It's been a month of embracing caffeine addiction to keep up, and Frankendesign is taking a large dose of self prescribed down time and transitioning to green tea. The move to a new neighborhood and renovation of the house promises many new connections with people and much personal growth. Frankendesign will be silent until the week of 06 January 2003. Until then, relax but stay alert. Focus, Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-857790632002-12-10T06:38:00.000-06:002002-12-10T06:46:16.000-06:00Exactly how misleading can the American press be — with a little help from its largest funders, members of the Republican Party, of course. A shining example below:
Poisoning the air
US reports of Iraqi stockpiles of nerve gas antidote should be treated with a healthy dose of scepticism, warns Brian Whitaker
Guardian | 09 December 2002
One of the oldest tricks in the run-up to a war is to Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-852146762002-11-28T10:29:00.000-06:002002-11-28T10:29:45.363-06:00"The greatest single acts of terrorism to date were not perpetrated by Osama bin Laden, but by the US military when it dropped atomic bombs on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
Speech by Moonanum James
32nd National Day of Mourning, 2001
National Day of Mourning 2002
Moonanum James at National Day of Mourning 2001
Sisters and Brothers:
We wish to dedicate this day to Wamsutta Frank JamesMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-850515602002-11-25T06:56:00.000-06:002002-11-25T06:59:14.000-06:00But he IS a moron!
John Chuckman
YellowTimes | 25 November 2002
Françoise Ducros, director of communications for Canada's Prime Minister Jean Chretien, said in a private conversation that Mr. Bush was a moron for the way he pushed his obsession over Iraq at a NATO meeting in Prague that had other, important issues to treat. Most informed people on the planet would classify her observation in Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-842793022002-11-09T10:06:00.000-06:002002-11-09T10:06:05.570-06:00Commentary: 'Election 2002'
Bill Moyers | PBS
Way back in the 1950's when I first tasted politics and journalism, Republicans briefly controlled the White House and Congress. With the exception of Joseph McCarthy and his vicious ilk, they were a reasonable lot, presided over by that giant war hero, Dwight Eisenhower, who was conservative by temperament and moderate in the use of power.
That Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-841144062002-11-06T07:28:00.000-06:002002-11-06T07:29:29.000-06:00Peoples deserve the governments they have.
-Simon BolivarMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-838831432002-11-01T12:01:00.000-06:002002-11-01T12:01:58.553-06:00We must allow ourselves to question the foundation our errors are built upon. Have we betrayed the solid ground of liberty with a capitalist theocracy? How fair is laissez-faire. They say “life’s not fair,” but aren’t we civilized, rationalized, so as not to be victimized and ostracized? Do we not seek unity to ensure our liberty? But are we unified or uniformed? As the architects of conformity Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-834629762002-10-24T10:17:00.000-05:002002-10-24T10:20:44.000-05:00An ad George Bush should love
"I helped blow up a Bali nightclub -- by driving my SUV to work every day!"
Arianna Huffington
Salon | 22 October 2002
The Bush team's ridiculous and wildly inflammatory anti-drug ads are still running in heavy rotation. You know the ads I'm talking about -- the ones where innocent-looking, middle-class teens admit their culpability for the consequences of the drugMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-827481632002-10-09T12:30:00.000-05:002002-10-09T12:35:15.000-05:00(...) If you wanted to hire/appoint/elect someone to administer your country, how would you choose? What makes a person suitable for such a role and what makes people suitable judges of who could fill that role? Therein lies the fundamental danger of democracy - the power to make a horrendous mistake, the power to have uneducated electors choosing unqualified practitioners. It should never be Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-825277712002-10-04T14:11:00.000-05:002002-10-04T14:39:11.000-05:00Agency disavows report on Iraq arms
Joseph Curl
The Washington Times | 04 October 2002
The International Atomic Energy Agency says that a report cited by President Bush as evidence that Iraq in 1998 was "six months away" from developing a nuclear weapon does not exist.
"There's never been a report like that issued from this agency," Mark Gwozdecky, the IAEA's chief spokesman, said yesterday inMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-824182332002-10-02T09:58:00.000-05:002002-10-02T10:03:31.000-05:00Bush's real goal in Iraq
Invasion would mark the next step toward an American empire
Jay Bookman
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | 29 September 2002
The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-823087662002-09-30T06:57:00.000-05:002002-09-30T07:02:55.000-05:00The October Surprise and the world it made:
Speak, memory
Chris Floyd
Counterpunch.org | 09 September 2002
As the world prepares to mark the anniversary of one of history's great turning points, we would be remiss if we failed to make our contribution to the sad memorials. And so, with heavy heart, we return to that fateful moment when the forces of violent extremism struck a cowardly and Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-821667122002-09-26T17:49:00.000-05:002002-09-26T17:55:31.000-05:00From the mouths of babes
John Chuckman
YellowTimes.org | 26 September 2002
I've written before that much of American foreign policy is determined by domestic attitudes and politics, in a society driven by the fantasies of adults who never want to grow up, rather than by the complex realities of the world.
How else do you explain the perverse and destructive nature of so many of America's Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-820516402002-09-24T12:21:00.000-05:002002-09-24T12:28:37.000-05:00A poster from France, May 2002, during George W. Bush's visit to the country (photo taken by an American tourist): looks like the Germans aren't the only ones comparing Bush Administration policies to Nazism. Note that it's written in English, so that the foreigners can understand it.
Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-818783762002-09-20T12:01:00.000-05:002002-09-20T12:02:05.000-05:00The Troubling New Face of America
Jimmy Carter
The Washington Post | 05 September 2002
Fundamental changes are taking place in the historical policies of the United States with regard to human rights, our role in the community of nations and the Middle East peace process — largely without definitive debates (except, at times, within the administration). Some new approaches have Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-817694702002-09-18T07:43:00.000-05:002002-09-18T07:44:26.000-05:00Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President
Neil Mackay
Sunday Herald | 15 September 2002
A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001.
The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a 'global Pax Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-815020352002-09-12T06:54:00.000-05:002002-09-12T07:01:39.000-05:00Remembering Sept. 12
Our leaders encouraged us to return as quickly as possible to our normal lives. Regrettably, they got their wish.
Arianna Huffington
Salon | 09 September 2002
This week, Americans will mark the solemn anniversary of Sept. 11. As we do, we'll think back to where we were when we first heard that the unthinkable had happened. As we observe moments of silence, light candles, Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-813523322002-09-09T07:22:00.000-05:002002-09-09T07:25:50.000-05:00The Bully's Pulpit
Paul Krugman
New York Times | 06 September 2002
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Colin Powell and Dick Cheney are in perfect agreement. And the Bush administration won't privatize Social Security.
Ari Fleischer's insistence that Mr. Powell and Mr. Cheney have no differences over Iraq seems to have pushed some journalists into facing up, at least Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-812053032002-09-05T16:25:00.000-05:002002-09-05T16:30:11.000-05:00Plans For Iraq Attack Began On 9/11
(CBS) CBS News has learned that barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was telling his aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq, even though there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks.
That's according to notes taken by aides who were with Rumsfeld in the Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-811353892002-09-04T06:50:00.000-05:002002-09-04T06:50:45.000-05:00Summit agreement is struck, but US blocks deal on clean energy
Geoffrey Lean in Johannesburg
The Independent | 03 September 2002
Ministers and heads of state agreed a new plan of action last night for tackling poverty and saving the environment, but, in a rebuff for Tony Blair, they did not include a target for increasing renewable energy.
An "unholy alliance" of oil exporting countries and Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-809301062002-08-30T14:53:00.000-05:002002-08-30T14:53:42.500-05:00http://www.moveon.org/nowar/Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-807242932002-08-26T06:38:00.000-05:002002-08-26T07:09:51.000-05:00On Wednesday, August 28, I'll be going to a meeting at the offices of Senator Richard J. Durbin and Senator Peter G. Fitzgerald. I and other folks from MoveOn.org will be expressing our deep concern about the Bush Administration's planned war on Iraq, and we'll be asking the Senators to ask hard questions about whether this war is necessary.
The meetings I'm attending are on Wednesday, August Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-806091042002-08-23T06:16:00.000-05:002002-08-23T06:16:17.550-05:00Blair's Earth Summit plea to Bush
Mark Townsend
The Observer | 18 August 2002
President George Bush has snubbed repeated efforts by Tony Blair to get him to attend the crucial Earth Summit in South Africa.
The Prime Minister believes it is vital that the US President makes an appearance in Johannesburg to avoid derailing the most important environmental talks for a decade.
Blair raised the Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-804806672002-08-20T11:39:00.000-05:002002-08-20T11:40:38.000-05:00'US gave Iraq intelligence aid'
David Usborne
Independent | 19 August 2002
The United States gave Iraq important intelligence assistance during its war against Iran in the late 1980s, even though Washington was aware of Baghdad's plans to deploy chemical weapons against the enemy, a newspaper report claimed yesterday.
Senior officials denied the allegation made in a report published in The NewMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-803174362002-08-16T08:29:00.000-05:002002-08-16T08:32:20.000-05:00The logic of empire
The US is now a threat to the rest of the world. The sensible response is non-cooperation.
George Monbiot
The Guardian | 06 August 2002
There is something almost comical about the prospect of George Bush waging war on another nation because that nation has defied international law. Since Bush came to office, the United States government has torn up more international Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-801804312002-08-13T06:28:00.000-05:002002-08-13T06:33:47.000-05:00from A Failure of Democracy, Not Capitalism
Benjamin R. Barber
New York Times | 29 July 2002
(...) Market fundamentalism, which defined the era of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, encourages a myth of omnipotent markets. But this is as foolish and wrong-headed as the myth of omnipotent states, which reigned from the New Deal to the Great Society. It tricks people into believing their own Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-799324802002-08-07T06:42:00.000-05:002002-08-07T06:44:26.000-05:00Come participate in a revolutionary perspectives "round table" to discuss where the future is headed, what the future holds for the people and whatwe should do about this?
U.S. war on the world: Can we stop them?
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- U.S. WAR ON THE WORLD: Afghanistan, the Philippines, next . . . Iraq. Bush has declared an "open Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-798866912002-08-06T06:34:00.000-05:002002-08-07T06:38:42.000-05:00Rock Without Rollers
John Patterson
The Guardian | 02 August 2002
You can usually count on Nashville to formulate the most reactionary responses to political crises. Check out Merle Haggard's 1969 classic The Fightin' Side of Me, in which Merle bollocks "some squirty guy who don't believe in fightin'." Sergeant Barry Sadler's Ballad of The Green Berets - a defence of the My Lai murderers - Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-798288042002-08-04T22:18:00.000-05:002002-08-04T22:18:58.000-05:00September 11, the brand
Pierre Tristam
CounterPunch | 30 July 2002
Get ready for September Eleven, the brand.
Between now and the first anniversary of that horrible day, Sept. 11 is going to be commemorated sometimes in the most moving ways, sometimes in the most humbling, even sublime ways: Greatness can be touched in spite of -- and because of -- the greatest tragedies. But Sept. 11 is also Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-797297942002-08-02T06:44:00.000-05:002002-08-02T06:44:26.620-05:00"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Herman Goering (second in command to Adolf Hitler) at the Nuremberg TrialsMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-795913522002-07-30T07:14:00.000-05:002002-07-30T07:15:45.000-05:00Iraq attack plans alarm top military
US and UK commanders 'scratching their heads' to make sense of invasion
Richard Norton-Taylor and Julian Borger, Washington
The Guardian | July 30 July 2002
Military commanders on both sides of the Atlantic are privately expressing deep unease about American plans to invade Iraq, believing they are ill thought out with the strategy to achieve the ultimate Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-794499582002-07-26T14:54:00.000-05:002002-07-26T17:56:49.000-05:00What Europe can teach Uncle Sam
In the second extract from his eagerly awaited new book, Will Hutton reveals why the American economic miracle is not all it seems
The Guardian | 29 April 2002
(...)American economic success has been dazzling, validating its belief in enshrining liberty at the heart of economic and social organisation. The recent bursting of the stock-market bubble has shaken it,Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-792520432002-07-22T06:44:00.000-05:002002-07-26T14:56:26.000-05:00Log cabin to White House? Not any more
The State We're In, Will Hutton's explosive analysis of the British economy, caused a storm and became an instant bestseller seven years ago. Now, in The World We're In, he turns his attention to the global picture. In this exclusive extract he argues that the US can no longer lay claim to being the land of opportunity.
The Observer | 28 April 2002
AmericaMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-790212962002-07-16T10:29:00.000-05:002002-07-16T10:29:42.000-05:00The great charade
As the West prepares for an assault on Iraq, John Pilger argues that 'war on terror' is a smokescreen created by the ultimate terrorist ... America itself
The Observer | 14 July 2002
It is 10 months since 11 September, and still the great charade plays on. Having appropriated our shocked response to that momentous day, the rulers of the world have since ground our language Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-789695522002-07-15T07:04:00.000-05:002002-07-15T07:16:13.000-05:00Slouching Toward Populism
Maureen Dowd
New York Times | 10 July 2002
WASHINGTON - It must be frustrating for the George Bushes.
They go through all the motions of proclaiming that they're self-made Texas bidnessmen.
They become president by acting more red-blooded than blue-blooded.
They whup small, backward countries that brutalize their own people and get dizzying approval ratings.
And Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-788332072002-07-11T15:33:00.000-05:002002-07-11T15:34:25.000-05:00"I see in the near future a crisis approaching. It unnerves me and causes me
to tremble for the safety of my country. The money power preys upon the
nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It
is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish
than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its
methods or throw light Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-786830392002-07-08T06:55:00.000-05:002002-07-08T06:56:53.000-05:00Jesse Jackson Jr. presses for fundamental election reforms
John Nichols
The Nation | 07 November 2001
(...)"Most Americans will be shocked, appalled and outraged to learn that their Constitution does not grant them the right to vote. The 15th, 19th and 26th Amendments prohibit 'discrimination' in voting on the basis of race, sex and age -- but does not extend to (Americans) the right to vote," Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-785542602002-07-04T11:56:00.000-05:002002-07-04T11:58:15.000-05:00Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-784714882002-07-02T13:03:00.000-05:002002-07-02T13:07:19.000-05:00Hypocrite in chief
Jeff Faux, president of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, says the crisis of confidence goes to the ideological core of the Republican Party's domestic policies. "The Republican domestic agenda rests on the assumption that less regulation is better," says Faux. "It presumes that government has got to be cut back and the market will deliver whatever you need. Now Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-784225142002-07-01T11:21:00.000-05:002002-07-01T11:25:34.000-05:00Smedley Butler on Interventionism
Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defenseMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-782879272002-06-27T17:55:00.000-05:002002-06-27T17:56:31.000-05:00God-bothered
Carrie Gibson says America should forget its pledge of allegiance, even if she cannot get it out of her head
Guardian | 27 June 2002
Of all the "sacred" texts I had to memorise throughout my US-based education (Hamlet's soliloquy, Walt Whitman's poems, etc) the one that I can still recite perfectly to this day is the pledge of allegiance. It is difficult not to know it by heart - IMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-782303772002-06-26T12:29:00.000-05:002002-06-26T12:35:31.000-05:00"As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] ... it is declared ... that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries....
"The United States is not a Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-781283482002-06-24T06:49:00.000-05:002002-06-24T06:49:28.783-05:00"It's interesting to observe that in the new AIGA's code of ethics there is a significant amount of useful information about appropriate behaviour towards clients and other designers, but not a word about a desiger's relationship to the public."
Selection from Milton Glaser's "This is what I have learned," from Voice: AIGA National Design Conference, 23 March 2002
dowload pdfMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-779985192002-06-20T17:24:00.000-05:002002-06-21T17:38:12.000-05:00The I-Said-So Test
The Washington Post | 20 June 2002
Editorial
"A court's inquiry should come to an end once the military has shown...that it has determined that the detainee is an enemy combatant...[T]he court may not second-guess the military's enemy-combatant determination."
These words were not written by some petty dictator whose kangaroo courts rubber-stamp his every whim and whose whimsMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-778432152002-06-17T08:03:00.000-05:002002-06-17T08:07:45.000-05:00Republicans debate state party's makeup
Platform is approved at convention as religious links become focus of discussion
By R.G. Ratcliffe
Houston Chronicle | 09 June 2002
DALLAS -- Texas Republicans argued over whether their state convention was mainstream or filled with "religious zealots" Saturday as delegates approved a party platform that called for the repeal of the state lottery, Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-777436742002-06-14T11:12:00.000-05:002002-06-14T14:59:13.000-05:00 Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy TourSaturnday, 15 June 2002, 9:30am - 8:30pmUnion Park, Ashland and Lakecomplete event informationMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-776729712002-06-12T18:00:00.000-05:002002-06-13T15:31:57.000-05:00Kissinger may face extradition to Chile
Henry Kissinger may face extradition proceedings in connection with the role of the United States in the 1973 military coup in Chile.
The former US secretary of state is wanted for questioning as a witness in the investigation into the events surrounding the overthrow of the socialist president, Salvador Allende, by General Augusto Pinochet.
It focuses onMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-775737312002-06-10T13:14:00.000-05:002002-06-10T13:28:34.000-05:00The Validity of Cranks Filling Cracks in the Historical Narrative
There are sharp distinctions between the "Bush is a Nazi" vulgarizations of the conspiranoia-ists, and the documented corporate-Nazi connections delineated by Simpson or Aaron. Where one sees ideology, the other sees opportunism. Where one sees intention, the other sees unintended consequences. The theorists who see this historicalMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-773718282002-06-05T07:36:00.000-05:002002-06-05T07:41:53.000-05:00Al-Qaida monitored U.S. negotiations with Taliban over oil pipeline
A 1998 memo written by al-Qaida military chief Mohammed Atef reveals that Osama bin Laden's group had detailed knowledge of negotiations that were taking place between Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and American government and business leaders over plans for a U.S. oil and gas pipeline across that Central Asian country.
The e-mailMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-772903822002-06-03T10:54:00.000-05:002002-06-03T10:54:40.860-05:00Want and need have evolved into disparate elements embattled through their marketability or lack of in the US's lassaiz faire society. With those who abide by laws of necessity having by nature of their need a disadvantage in purchasing power, the want in our society has already won this war unless fundamental values of fraternalism and altruism are realised, at which cost we will then be in Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-770614042002-05-28T08:14:00.000-05:002002-06-03T10:51:06.000-05:00I will be lax in posting as more attention will be shifted to improving this site overall. I am collecting all previous references and building a PDF library as to eliminate dead links to articles originally referenced but since moved from the given URL. And who knows what else I might change. Hopefully I will have these 'improvements' wrapped up by June 15. Thanx for your patience.
As well, I Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-769230032002-05-24T08:50:00.000-05:002002-05-24T09:00:08.000-05:00Memorial Day
Memorial Day was originally designated as a time to honor those who died in the American Civil War. Since then, many U.S. soldiers have died for many causes. Although I may find many of the U.S. military's actions less then honorable, the fact that so many die for a cause is reason enough to honor those dead in hopes that it may inspire us to never embrace apathy and complacency as aMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-768484832002-05-22T13:08:00.000-05:002002-05-22T13:12:35.000-05:00Give War A Chance
A passage from (Tom) Friedman's 1999 book "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" sums up his overarching global perspective: "The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the U.S. Air Force F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies to flourish is Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-766682942002-05-17T14:14:00.000-05:002002-05-17T14:20:05.000-05:00"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are people who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. That struggle might be a moral one; it might be a physical one; it might be both moral and physical, but it must be struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never did and Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-766189452002-05-16T09:04:00.000-05:002002-05-16T09:04:52.083-05:00"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people."
Henry Kissinger, as President Nixon's National Security AdviserMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-765794372002-05-15T11:05:00.000-05:002002-05-15T11:13:15.000-05:00Congresswoman McKinney presses for investigation of Bush Administration links to 9-11
Dennis Bernstein interviews Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney
KPFA, Flashpoints News Radio, 12 April 2002
Centre for Research on Globalisation, 14 April 2002 (Transcript)
STATEMENT OF CONGRESSWOMAN CYNTHIA MCKINNEY
The need for an investigation of the events surrounding September 11 is as obvious as is the need forMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-765364902002-05-14T10:19:00.000-05:002002-05-14T12:37:41.000-05:00Jimmy Carter questions Cuba terror claims
Former President Jimmy Carter found himself in a debate on democracy with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, after he ignited an uproar at home by saying U.S. officials told him they had no evidence Cuba was involved in developing weapons of mass destruction.
Carter's statement, made Monday during a tour of Cuba's premier biotechnology lab, seemed to contradict Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-764950412002-05-13T08:57:00.000-05:002002-05-13T09:00:02.000-05:00God fearing or Communist fearing?
(...) A decade later, the pledge was altered once more. The change was spurred by a sermon delivered on Feb. 7, 1954 by George M. Docherty, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington D.C. With President Eisenhower sitting in the front pew the Reverend declared, "Apart from the mention of the phrase 'the United States of America' it could be Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-763996342002-05-10T10:55:00.000-05:002002-05-10T10:57:46.000-05:00The American Taliban
Jeffrey Ziegler, President of the National Reform Association (NRA), a Pittsburgh, PA based Christian Reconstructionist organization, has announced plans to form a political action committee and public policy organization, officially entering Washington’s world of politics. The NRA hopes that through "Operation Potomac" it can begin lobbying, developing political campaigns, Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-763459002002-05-09T10:29:00.000-05:002002-05-09T10:31:34.000-05:00Voter Participationof the richest industrialized nationsGermany 87%Sweden 86Norway 83Netherlands 80Finland 76United Kingdom 75Canada 75United States 49Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-763094792002-05-08T12:02:00.000-05:002002-05-08T12:08:03.000-05:00What are conservatives conserving?
It's hard to know what came first, the chicken or the egg, taxes or tax relief. A key foundation of this country, no taxation without representation, is indirectly an admission that everyone understood the necessity of taxes; of sharing; of the responsibility of a people to a government, a government to its people, and the people to each other. And to be a Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-762614012002-05-07T08:57:00.000-05:002002-05-07T09:16:27.000-05:00Protest George Bush in Chicago
Monday, May 13, 11:30 am
Sheraton Hotel, 301 E. North Water (400 N.)
President George Bush is coming to Chicago for Jim Ryan's gubernatorial campaign. Tell them both we won't accept a budget that denies crucial funds for children, seniors, the disabled, schools, Social Security, health care, the environment, and housing while Bush takes care of his corporate Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-762233232002-05-06T11:14:00.000-05:002002-05-06T11:23:02.000-05:00We don't need your help
Reem Mohammed Al-Faisal
A few days ago I was asked by a concerned American what she could do to help the Palestinian people. For the first time, I understood how Malcolm X would have felt when he was asked by a white American what she could do to help blacks in America. Malcolm X's answer was "Nothing."
Naturally he apologized later and I today apologize for what I Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-761573792002-05-04T12:14:00.000-05:002002-05-04T12:20:47.000-05:00"Americans are asking, 'Why do they hate us?'" President Bush stated in his nationally televised call to war. His answer was that "they hate our freedoms; our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other."
I’ve covered the Middle East for more than 20 years—traveling to Iran, Palestine, and Iraq to investigate, first-hand, the impact Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-761159592002-05-03T06:56:00.000-05:002002-05-03T06:56:08.323-05:00How Corporate Law Inhibits Social Responsibility
A Corporate Attorney Proposes a 'Code for Corporate Citizenship' in State Law
by Robert Hinkley
Published in the January/February 2002 issue of Business Ethics
After 23 years as a corporate securities attorney—advising large corporations on securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions—I left my position as partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-760764582002-05-02T07:36:00.000-05:002002-05-02T07:37:13.000-05:00Iraq and the U.S. Media: We Are Being Lied To!
Public Forum: Friday, 3 May, 7PM, Skokie Public Library
Featuring the award-winning documentary "Hidden Wars of Desert Storm" that public television has refused to show. Gabe Huck and Teresa Kubasak of Voices in the Wilderness will share eyewitness accounts of the effects of sanctions and war on Iraq.
Skokie Public Library, 5215 Oakton St (just westMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-760359002002-05-01T06:28:00.000-05:002002-05-01T17:24:21.000-05:00May Day
May Day (May 1) was designated an international labor day by the International Socialist Congress of 1899, and it remains the standard Labor Day worldwide, with a few exceptions, incl. Canada and the U.S.A. A major holiday in socialist countries, it is the occasion for important political demonstrations.
In Europe, May Day is a day of traditional springtime celebrations. It probably Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-760079422002-04-30T13:16:00.000-05:002002-04-30T13:21:44.000-05:00"It is essential in a democratic society that young people and adults learn how to think, learn how to make up their minds. They must learn how to think independently, and they must learn how to think together. They must come to conclusions, but at the same time they must recognize the right of other men to come to opposite conclusions. So far as individuals are concerned, the art of democracy isMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-759580922002-04-29T06:37:00.000-05:002002-04-29T07:00:09.000-05:00Give me liberty, or give me . . . what? Security?
Gore Vidal
(...) Six years ago last week, in response to the Oklahoma City bombing (which, if indeed perpetrated by a lone nut armed only with a rental van and fertilizer, begs the question of why sweeping new legislation was necessary), Congress passed the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, "antiterrorism" legislation which not only Michael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-759067202002-04-27T17:56:00.000-05:002002-04-27T17:58:39.000-05:00 The pay gap between CEOs and workers: 475 to 1.
billionaires for bush or gore
truth is a virusMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3405690.post-758436722002-04-26T06:25:00.000-05:002002-04-26T06:28:48.000-05:00Currently, the realm of television in its entirety is controlled by six mega-corporations in the U.S. and strongly dominated by three worldwide. When only a few players run the most powerful medium of our time with the same agenda, the small fry (read: you and I) are shut out of the culture-making process.
Today concludes the TV Turnoff Week report on corporate media ownership.
General ElectricMichael Forsythehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08553296048164969409noreply@blogger.com0