Hannah Arendt’s excellent though deeply flawed masterwork, The Origins of Totalitarianism yesterday, correctly suggesting that it’s worth a re-read in the current context. Doc: “…it deals with verities I think we need to factor into our convesations about the War on Terrorism, whatever that is.” He’s right, it does. I studied it several years ago and even had the opportunity to have dinner with her former student and intellectual biographer Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, and I totally agree with Doc that it deserves to be read again.
Sure to be under-reported:
New Survey Documents Global Repression. It looks like the entire World Report is online as well. [via blork]
John LeCarre weighs in
on the currently beating war drums in the US: A Predatory and Dishonest War. “Americans can still awake to the shame of what is being done in their name.” [via wood s lot]
And if you haven’t had enough Doctorow today,
he’s featured in an article in Internet Week today entitled Alleged Wi-Fi Risks Are Nonsense. “…in fact, users [of open WiFi access points] use only a trivial amount of a high-speed Internet connection. Moreover, switches on corporate networks are designed to balance multiple, high-speed demands on network resources. […] People who say to the contrary are wrong, they do not understand what they are talking about; they do not know how a switched network works.” Thanks Tamara!
If here was any question about US motivations,
surely this article in Oil and Gas International will clear it up. I don’t, of course, think it’s as simple as “Bush wants more oil for the US” – not by a longshot. But, as Billy Bragg wrote recently, the price of oil is significant in this whole thing.
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