Ignorance in the form of stereotyping people from other parts of the world can have unpredictable consequences, sometimes leading to mass suffering that a more enlightened view might have avoided, as Lawrence Davidson reflects.
Category: Human Rights
Tea Party and Thomas Jefferson
Hectoring Obama Over Syria
Amazon, the CIA and Assassinations
The entangling threads connecting technology, media and the surveillance state have snarled so completely that it’s next to impossible to untie them, exemplified by Amazon, the Washington Post, and the CIA’s pending assassination of a suspected American terrorist, as Norman Solomon explains.
Learning the Wrong Mideast Lessons
The High Cost of a ‘War on Terror’
Is Hillary Clinton a Neocon-Lite?
A Half Century of the Beatles
The Beatles — introduced to Americans a half century ago — became a marker for Baby Boomers as they emerged from the shock of JFK’s death, faced the Vietnam War, grieved over the murder of prophets, including John Lennon, and confronted life’s endless complexities, as Michael…