The Marathon Bombings and the Lockdown of Boston: Was it really a Vindication of the Surveillance State?
By Falguni A. Sheth and Robert E. Prasch The sub-text of the official state view and media coverage coming …
Category Archives: Violence
Violence Begets Violence: Turning to Dr. King in the aftermath of the Boston Bombings
This piece is in Salon, under various headlines: Where does the hate come from? Amid this tragedy, we ought to …
Obama is Channeling Bush Fever in Iran
Hi folks. Thanks for checking in. Regular readers will notice that I’ve been writing rather sporadically over the last few …
On the Regulation of Firearms
Robert Prasch thoughtfully unpacks the firearm regulation debate. Almost two months after the massacre in Newtown, and six months after …
Violence is Not Power: Meditations on Obama’s Second Term
Revised 1/7/12, 3:25 pm. Pervasive violence is the ever-louder siren of the U.S. state’s impotence. It is the beacon of …
Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the Advantages of Not Being Female, Muslim, or Black*
What I do know is that nothing in the world can justify a man being thus thrown to the dogs. …
Shrien Dewani, Julian Assange, and British Justice
“…[V]iolence… threatens [the law] not by the ends that it may pursue but by its mere existence outside …
Race, Murder, and Mayhem in America: Considering the Links
Glenn Greenwald is right to be skeptical of any direct causal links between the horrific events such as the Sikh …
Mosques, Temples, and Theaters: We Need to Change the Script
Yesterday, less than 48 hours after the shootings in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, a mosque in Joplin, Missouri was burned to …
What Michael Moore Said…
“It’s the Guns – But We All Know, It’s Not Really the Guns“ Michael Moore with a column in Common …
Holmes, Guns, and Terrorism: We Need to Ask Different Questions
The last 72 hours have been an important exercise in understanding how a public tragedy is framed, or taken as …
