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AdBusters:
The Inside Story
unpublished [June 2006]
AdBusters
has rapidly become emblematic of the liberal movement.
But who are the people behind it? Do they ride bicycles
to work and eat only raw vegetables? And are they winning?
Astrobiology
and the Search for Meaning: An African Boy's Perspective
In The Astrobiology
Newsletter [January 2006]
I
spent most of my life in Southern Africa. Like a grain
of Kalahari sand carried in the Okavango River that
suddenly finds itself – quite unexpectedly –
in the fertile Okavango Delta, the river of life somehow
carried me to UW’s Astrobiology Program where I
found myself surrounded not by Gemsbok and Fish Eagles
but rather by some of the best astrobiological thinkers...
The
new all-American plan for HIV/AIDS in Africa
with Emi Maclean, In
The Washington Spark [July 2005]
The
announcement of the U.S. President’s Emergency
Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was met with both eagerness
and skepticism when it was first announced by President
Bush during the 2003 State of the Union address. The
plan promised, for the first time, a commitment to attack
the deadly AIDS scourge with more than just measures
of prevention. Explicitly, PEPFAR promised $15 billion
over five years to provide care and treatment for HIV/AIDS
in fifteen severely affected countries. Activists, medical
professionals, and the HIV affected expressed concern
about what was left unsaid, however.
Wolfowitz
for Africa
In The Washington
Spark [June 2005]
Liberal
advocacy groups came out forcefully against President
Bush's recent surprise nomination of Paul Wolfowitz
as president of the World Bank. Many fear that Mr. Wolfowitz
will pursue a policy tainted with U.S. economic and
strategic interests, shifting the Bank's -already contentious-
focus away from its' stated goal to "fight poverty
and improve the living standards of people in the developing
world".
Voting
Against Occupation: Iraq's Election Results
with Douglas Whitehead,
In Ruckus [Vol. 8, Iss. 4, February
2005]
7,200
candidates, organized into 83 electoral blocs. 75 seperate
attacks and 44 killings by the Iraqi Resistance. That’s
a lot of democracy, eh? Invasions and corporate interest
aside, what were the results of the Iraqi election?
The
Rape of Data/Bush v. Science
with Nicolás Pinel,
Tarek Maassarani, Bonnie Chang and Beth! Orcutt,In
Ruckus [Vol. 8, Iss. 5, March 2005]
In
this article we set out to show, through examples drawn
from recent policy proposals and implementations, that
the current U.S. administration is actively and effectively
reducing solid science into a political tool through
a series of determined maneuvers that undermine the
vital relationship between science and public policy.
Turmoil
in the Himalayas and the Dawn of a New Era
In Ruckus [Vol.
8, Iss. 4, February 2005]
Nepal,
remembered by every ones’ parents as the
primary destination for high-altitude, low-cost karma
(not to mention hashish) has recently seen the second
subduction of its’ government in about as many
years. Ruckus investigates what’s up and what’s
down on the roof of the world.
Two
views on Hotel Rwanda
with Beth! Orcutt , In
Ruckus [Vol. 8, Iss. 4, February 2005]
Two
reviews of the movie Hotel
Rwanda.
One by an enthusiastic yet critical Beth! Orcutt. One
by a furious Jelte Harnmeijer. But which is right? Will
we ever know? And is there a God, and if so, what does
he have to say about Rwanda? Read on for answers to
these and other questions.
Africa's
Stolen Revolution: The Story of Moçambique
In Ruckus
[Vol. 8, Iss. 3, January 2005]
Moçambique
is one of those countries that few Americans will ever
hear about, and even less will ever get to visit. From
our privileged view atop our victorious post-Cold War
balcony - built with the tropical hardwood, and carried
upon the broken backs, of our brothers and sisters in
the Southern lands - we should steal an occasional glance
downwards at that continent so easily overlooked: Africa.
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