Carl Bloice

Getting up in the morning and turning to the media is becoming a surreal experience. I stop chewing on my bagel because my mouth is agape. I learn that the Bush Administration’s new plan for Iraq involves creating nine “military districts” in Baghdad and sprinkling them with setting up 30 or 40 “joint security sites.”…

Forget about all that stuff about Ethiopia having a “tacit” o.k. from Washington to invade Somalia. The decision was made at the White House and the attack had military support from the Pentagon. The governments are too much in sync and the Ethiopians too dependent on the U.S. to think otherwise. And, it didn’t just…

There’s one important thing the new Congress could do that would be really worthwhile, and that would be to revisit the question of the mysterious energy task force, or National Energy Policy Development Group, assembled by Vice-President Dick Cheney back in early 2001. They could do so not just because it would open a can…

On the eve of the vote, very conservative African American commentator Star Parker, wrote, “The intensity of black negativity makes the overall dour mood of the general voting population look almost sunny.” That will explain the sour mood of most black conservatives as Tuesday neared. For Star, it reflects “black attitudes” and the extent to…

It’s perhaps symptomatic of the times that although experts have warned for years that the specter of global warming is real and could become catastrophic for the future of human life on the planet, it was when someone added up the economic cost of dealing with the threat that some people in power sat up…

On more than one occasion over recent months I’ve heard or read something actually defending inequality. After a lifetime of hearing about the idea of “liberty, equality and fraternity”, I was hearing educated people saying inequality is what keeps the system going – a motive force propelling our society to ever new heights. At first,…