Thursday, June 19th, 2008
American Empire
Somebody sent me a link to this YouTube video of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of American Empire: What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me about the American Empire.
It’s worth a look, even if you don’t agree with Zinn’s thesis. I am familiar with Zinn’s work, particularly his People’s History of the United States but [...]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
The Global Peace Index
Visions of Humanity has released its Global Peace Index, ranking 140 nations in terms of their relative peacefulness.
Bad news: We’re #97.
Worse news: That’s +7 from last year (the lower the number, the more peaceful you are)
Good news: I don’t live in Sudan (#138), Somalia (#139) or Iraq (#140).
Even better news: Our neighbor Canada (#11) is [...]
