Of all the things, what does Australian electoral politics concerns itself with?
The killing train rolls on
It rolls on with its thousands upon thousands of corpses, it rolls through towns and cities, through prairie and forest, though the mountains and the plains, through heaven and earth, through the valley of the shadow of death, across the
Heroism in War
In contemporary society, perhaps all societies, violent actions are often applauded and labelled heroic — and especially actions in war. And so the question arises: what makes actions such heroic, if at all? This is a question close to pure
Antiwar and queer liberation politics
The antiwar and queer liberation movements are natural allies. Yet the focus on “don’t ask don’t tell” threatens to turn the queer liberation movement pro-militarism. The two perhaps most important specific LGBT-related issues in recent times — gay marriage, and
ANZAC Day
By jingo, it’s ANZAC day, Australia’s favourite nationalist/gambling holiday! Time to put aside pro-war ANZAC “lest we forget” mythology, which amounts to forgetting everything important in history. Lest we forget Australia’s role in maintaining British, now American, domination of the
On militarism
During the US wars in Indochina, a tumult of protest and activism at Stanford brought many momentous changes to the university. Among these was the banishment of the ROTC from campus. But recently, the suggestion has been made in the
Self-determination and Afghanistan
Self-determination is a central principle of international law. In the case of Afghan self-determination it’s probably also useful to point out that there is a sizeable Afghan peace movement, very courageous and principled, which the antiwar movement in the US
The antiwar movement in the large, and measuring it
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/measurenonprofit I read this article and thought it was interesting. I had some comments on it, which pertain to the antiwar movement at large, so I thought I would share them. Make of them what you will. 1. Measuring is
Rice's nonsense on torture
Oh wow, I only got around to watching this video now, and from some of the comments I thought she must have been making some half-convincing arguments… nope! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijEED_iviTA&feature=channel_page Well, first we upgrade al Qaeda to tyrants, okay. Then one
Civilian Casualties in Iraq?
We have a densely argued discussion of the available evidence andliterature review in footnote number 30 of our open letter: http://www.stanford.edu/group/antiwar/cgi-bin/mediawiki/index.php?title=Condi_coalition_letter_draft#cite_note-29 (Why does the link for footnote 30 ends in “note-29”. I think I blame computer scientists who like to