Phil Agre has issued two more sets of attack related links over the past couple of days. (10/1, 10/2)
I’m rolling out a new design for this site. I’ll be converting the sub-pages to the new design as I have time. Please let me know if you run into any problems. (I’m particularly interested in any font-size issues on Macs. If the fonts look like crap, please send email post haste.) Update: after multiple complaints in the first 15 minutes the new design was live, I toned down the green.
What are we getting into by letting the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan do our fighting for us? Robert Fisk has an opinion on that. I’ve been posting Northern Alliance links like mad in order to counter the kind of cognitive dissonance driven thinking that allows people to assume that the Northern Alliance are good guys because they’re fighting the Taliban, who are obviously bad guys. Giving guns and money to thugs in developing nations is one step in the cycle that winds up blowing up in our faces and causing us to start the cycle again with a different set of thugs.
CNN has the transcript of Tony Blair’s address at a Labor Party conference yesterday. He gave a great speech, it’s a clarion call for internationalism that we should all pay heed to. My favorite part is this:
And they [survivors of the 9/11 attack] don’t want revenge. They want something better in memory of their loved ones. And I believe that their memorial can and should be greater than simply the punishment of the guilty. It is that, out of the shadow of this evil, should emerge lasting good.
Destruction of the machinery of terrorism, wherever it is found, hope amongst all nations of a new beginning, where we seek to resolve differences in a calm and ordered way, greater understanding between nations and between faiths and, above all, justice and prosperity for the poor and dispossessed, so that people everywhere can see the chance of a better future through the hard work and creative power of the free citizen, not the violence and savagery of the fanatic.