a work in progress
Good evening. Five years ago, this date — September the 11th — was seared into America’s memory. Nineteen men attacked us with a barbarity unequaled in our history. They murdered people of all colors, creeds, and nationalities — and made war upon the entire free world. Since that day, America and her allies have taken […]
The “war on terror” - and by terrorists - has directly killed a minimum of 62,006 people, created 4.5 million refugees and cost the US more than the sum needed to pay off the debts of every poor nation on earth.If estimates of other, unquantified, deaths - of insurgents, the Iraq military during the 2003 […]
Remember, remember the eleventh of September,
the bin Laden conspiracy and plot,
I see of no reason why planes of terror
should ever be forgot.
Before the age of film, music played a significant role in remembering events of our past. Transmission through song was a sort of coping device for us to overcome grief while also passing down […]
One: George Bush II admits Iraq had nothing to do with the September 11, 2001 attacks. Two: The United States Senate officially declares that there was and no link between al-Qaeda and Iraq. Of course those who voted for George Bush should have known this four years ago. Or three years ago. Or two years […]
Although I am a Religious Studies major, I do not pretend to know much about Islam. I have never had an interest in the academic study of Islam. This is not to say I do not know the history of Islamic nations, as I have been fascinated with the stories of Muhammad and grateful to […]
Woken by the jarring peal of the phone at 5.58am, Pacific time, I heard a friend’s voice say, “Turn on your TV! Turn on your TV!” Then she hung up. Groggy with sleep, I clicked the remote, and the screen bloomed into a scene of aghast confusion. I was still dopily figuring out the what […]
For the next week or so I will be dedicating this blog to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the chaos that has ensued. Some of the articles are ones that I have written, and some I have not.
Tomorrow is the first day of the last year of my undergraduate career. And I do mean career. I graduated high school in 2000 and have been in numerous colleges and universities since. Every year I like to think about what I would like to accomplish for the coming school year. Sometimes it is specific, […]
I find it troubling that someone actually called me an anti-Semite because I do not agree with Israel’s actions against Palestine or Lebanon. This sort of cowardly “argument” is only enforcing racism and anti-Semitism. Let me get one thing straight: if Iran or Syria invaded Israel right now, I would have very few positive things […]
In case you did not notice, Mexico is undergoing a second revolution in six years. The battle between the leftist candidate Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor, and Felipe Calderon, the incumbent government’s candidate, is somewhat reminiscent of the American elections of 2000. The exception that makes this “tiff” much more interesting is that […]