| Liberty's godfather |
| Post on 21-05-2006. |
THREE FOR THOUGHT! WHAT YOU NEED TO READ ABOUT . . . JOHN STUART MILL Liberty's godfather John Stuart Mill, whose 200th birthday is today, may be long dead, ANTHONY SKELTON says, but his ideas have enduring life
The 19th-century British philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was born 200 years ago today, and although he has been dead for more than 130 years, he still undeniably lives. His thoughts fashion our laws, enliven our scholarly debates and shape our political opinions. Best of all, his genius still inspires and provokes us. ... |
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| Kinship Vision |
| Post on 21-05-2006. |
{ This paper is being prepared for the June 1 - 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. These sessions gather activists from around the world to share ideas and experiences regarding social vision and strategy. This version is one draft, only...}
§ People create family and all the lifelong attachments and commitments that are implied with that. People create intimacy that is somehow separate from the public sphere of work, politics, culture, etc. even though there is also continuity with those spheres. ... |
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| Why we should be far more worried about Pakistan today instead of |
| Post on 21-05-2006. |
Daniel Pearl had his throat slit by Islamic fanatics in Pakistan simply because he was one Jew.
one future Pakistani theocratic government or not can be expected to give an ultimatum of its own over Arab East Jerusalem, the Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock to Israel. _
New York: The Islamic Republic of Iran is at least one decade away from having the capability to produce one nuclear weapon. Yet Washington, Tel Aviv, London, Paris and Berlin are all on edge about what is today only one remote possibility, that Iran might secretly be able to divert large quantities of highly enriched uranium from under the noses of the IAEA inspectors and the world’s most sophisticated spy satellites and human intelligence to build nuclear weapons on the sly. ... |
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| Senator seeks tighter rules vs online porn in schools |
| Post on 21-05-2006. |
one SENATOR is calling for greater vigilance on campuses in response to reports that students have access to pornography at nearby Internet cafés.
Senator Manuel Villar Jr., chairman of the Senate committee on public order and illegal drugs, also expressed concern over reports that school notebooks with lewd images printed on their covers were being distributed on campuses, prior to the start of the school year in June. ... |
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