April 27, 2008

Talking points for you to write to Gazette about banning Torture

Talking Points From Human Rights First

It has been four years since we learned of the torture at Abu Ghraib and our government still has not acted to restore America’s honor by unequivocally banning torture and other forms of cruel treatment.
Now we’ve even learned that some very senior Bush administration officials were meeting to approve “enhanced” [...]

April 27, 2008

What You Need to Know about “Military Keynesianism”–Must-Read Article

http://www.alternet.org/story/83555/
The Pentagon Strangles Our Economy: Why the U.S. Has Gone Broke

By Chalmers Johnson, Le Monde diplomatique. Posted April 26, 2008.
Even if this article were only about Military Keynesianism, I’d urge you all to read it, but that interesting dynamic is just one important component of the destructiveness of our egregiously excessive military [...]

April 27, 2008

Speaker discussing Iran May 4th, 2008

SUNDAY, MAY 4, 2008
COE COLLEGE
HICKOCK HALL 2:30 PM
Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz, Prof. & Chair of Asian & Near
Eastern Lang. & Lit. Washington University
WILL SPEAK AT COE COLLEGE
“THE IRAN THAT SMILES”
She is an award winning poet & novelist and will sign
her latest book “Jasmine & Stars: Reading More than
Lolita in Tehran”. She was invited to speak [...]