It’s not that poverty doesn’t move them, but more correctly it is an interpretation of poverty that radicalizes (and is itself radical). When I started my studies at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies, I made the mistake of joking with a German colleague. We were discussing “terrorism” as a theoretical [...]
Posts Tagged ‘politics’
Kenya Series – The Myth of Western Superiority
July 15th, 2009
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I’ve been with The 1010 Project for a little over a year. At the same time, I was working my way through graduate school at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. At the office, I learned about humanitarian work by doing, and through discussions with those who had been [...]
Graduate School
May 29th, 2009
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A few months back, I read (with a somewhat horrified face) and commented on Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist post “Don’t try to dodge the recession with grad school.” It’s a silly post, really, full of lovely little bits of wisdom like “Law school is a factory for depressives” or “Going to grad school is like [...]
Kyrgyzstan and the United States
February 3rd, 2009
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The BBC reports today that Kyrgyzstan will be shuttering the United States air base outside the capital city of Bishkek. This is pretty big news any direction that you cut it, but given our new “focus” on fixing things in Afghanistan, the closing of the Manas base is really, really, really important. You can check [...]
The Pork Protest
February 3rd, 2009
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It’s official – I’ve decided to protest pork in the upcoming stimulus bill. CNN has a nice list (compiled by House GOP folk) of some of the sillier bits: • $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said [...]
Tit for Tat
January 12th, 2009
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OK. Punching someone just because they hit you is not good. This isn’t just me speaking as a (more or less) pacifist. Preemption is an even more dangerous game, as we have found with our Mesopotamian excursion. News this past week makes me think that we earthlings still haven’t figured these things out. In the [...]
Israel, Gaza, and Graffiti
January 8th, 2009
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As I biked up onto campus this cold January morning, I found a very interesting bit of chalk-drawing next to the library: I also took an aerial shot for dramatic effect, as seen below. I’ll update this post when they pressure-wash it off the sidewalk. politics, graffiti, #israel, #gaza
Washington, DC
December 15th, 2008
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Every time I go to DC, I spend my time there wishing that I was a resident. I feel the pulse of the whole entire world all around me, like being in the nexus of whatever happens to be happening. Even when I visit during the summer, when the fierce humidity reminds me of life [...]
