Category: Commentary

“400 years of slavery is worth 20 points” said one of hundreds of placards in the crowd outside the U.S Supreme Court, in Washington. “Save affirmative action!” Thousands had journeyed from as far away as California to support the University of Michigan Law School’s admissions policies, in what may be the last line of legal…

Racists act in bizarre ways. Incapable of properly processing information that does not conform to core assumptions of white supremacy, they react, instead, to shared fictions that they propagate among themselves. The racist popular character of the American war against an amorphous, imagined Arab-Muslim “other” is obvious to every sane citizen of the world. (As…

“The initial data available so far reveals the dirtiness of U.S.-British warmongers, the fakeness of their claims about a clean war, as well as their indifference to the lives of innocent, unarmed Iraqi civilians.” The indictment comes, not from Baghdad or Kuala Lumpur, but from the Foreign Minister of Switzerland. Micheline Calmy Rey, of the…

In the pursuit of national interests abroad, much of white America has been programmed to view policies that aid and abet this process as essential to its survival, regardless of the consequences such policies might have for their (mostly non-white) victims. Such a view, carefully crafted by government propaganda with corporate media complicity, can in…

We begin with an overarching truth: every person harmed by U.S. actions in the Iraqi theater of pre-emptive, unprovoked war represents a crime by the United States against international law and the evolved standards of civilized behavior. The very fact that we are compelled to state such an obvious truth before beginning a communication with…

The awesome maratelethon has invaded the nation’s households as Manifest Destiny on the march, a political spectacle in which the military are props and the civilian announcers are inspired by the most grotesque delusions of racial triumphalism. “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” the embedded multi-media experience, is neither news nor military propaganda. Rather, it is an imperial…

We are all assembled, the world’s people, awaiting the Pirates’ lunge at history. The Bush men have made sure we pay rapt attention to their Big Bang, their epochal Event, after which the nature of things will have changed unalterably to their advantage – they think. The Bush men are certain of our collective response,…

The pulsating horror of Shock and Awe is upon us. The Bush men manifest their monstrous act of will, intending to shatter the will of the human species to resist domination by Pirates. As we wrote in our “last pre-Event commentary,” America is well cast for the role of crazed Crusader: “The criminal enterprise on…

Affirmative action supporters hope to follow up last month’s institutional show of strength with a display of street power, April 1. Organizers of the Civil Rights March to the Supreme Court predict hundreds of thousands will turn out to “demand that the high court uphold affirmative action in the University of Michigan cases.” Students are…

Any day now, the Bush Pirates will attempt to shatter history, itself. The United States intends to demonstrate to the world that it is fatal to resist American global supremacy. The U.S. will rain thousands of rockets, tens of thousands of bombs, and millions of artillery projectiles on the people of Iraq and its Chicago-sized…