In These Times

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• • 07 Dec 05
  • 4:13 pm

  There is possibly no country on earth more misunderstood - and more foreign to us westerners - than the DPRK (Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea). I wonder how many people on this list have ever talked to or even met a North Korean - or anyone who has lived or spent any amount of time there outside of an escorted press trip. The father of a good friend of mine lived there for a few years in the 1970s (I will never forget his wonderfully insightful stories of life there - YES, there is life there, despite what the western press …

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• • 07 Dec 05
  • 4:41 pm

  Bravo, Kaw Valley Kid! Maybe you Americans aren't all as hoodwinked as we think...

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• • 23 Nov 05
  • 5:54 pm

  So what are you saying, Wolf???!!! Is war okay or isn't it? And as far as WP is concerned: it pains me as a total rejecter of the notion of a death penalty even to pose this question, but is there a difference between a firing squad that shoots its victim through the heart and one that sprays WP on the victim so as to cause an indescribably painful death? It seems that you would answer this question in the negative. And why is terrorism, which can target only a limited number of civilians, more vile than the war machines of …

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• • 27 Nov 05
  • 4:52 pm

  On the question of the definition of "terrorism": Chomsky has been saying it for decades: when "they" murder innocent civilians in cold blood it is terrorism. When "we" do it is a justifiable and morally pure. Check out his classic discussions of Reagan's self-proclaimed "year of the war on terror" (sometime in the early 1980s, I forget which year), where he shows that the three main candidates for the prize of carrying out the most deadly terrorist act were the CIA, the CIA and Mossad/CIA. If there were any justice in this world, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the whole crew …

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• • 09 Nov 05
  • 4:10 pm

  I hesitate to discuss anything involving German society on this forum for fear that JC the CJ might chime in with some more idiotic Lederhosen-Romantik comments on (virtually) non-existent autumn harvest festivals or our lack of ability to queue up at bus stops to prove how familiar he is with the country... ... but the article mentioned Walmart in Germany and I felt I had to comment. Walmart has had a very tough stand here - and there are justified hopes they will close down and go away. There have been many articles in the business press about how German consumers …

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