Recommended Reads August 25, 2005 Lauren The Heretik: Women Left Hanging in Iraq The Economist: For Jihadists, Read Anarchists (very interesting article though I don’t necessarily agree with everything stated) Bulldog Manifesto: Orwellian 101 Media Girl: Kingmakers and the Real Net Roots
Iraq is going to become just like Iran. Women do not have rights, nor will they ever under the constitution of Iraq, they will just word the constitution so that it will have the ability to be interpreted according to Islamic law. I too am tired of the Newspeak and doublespeak that the administration is putting forth as well as the media’s capitulation towards the administration and its vile propaganda.
For the Economist, that was a surprisingly even-handed treatment of the history of 19th-early 20th Century anarchism. I was surprised to see them actually cite Woodcock. Of course, being in the Economist, it still sucked. Trying to conflate Kropotkin with the Propaganda of The Deed folks was shameful. And the piece somehow neglected to mention the deep rift between jejune bombthrowers and the more pacifist-orinted folks. Even would-be assassins like Alexander Berkman later publicly repudiated their earlier tactics, and Emma Goldman famously offered to use her nursing skills to aid the assassinated William McKinley. Bakunin said “the urge to destroy is also a creative urge,” but he was talking about social structures, not restaurants and plate glass windows. Something certain bandana-ed adolescents hiding behind the “chicks up front” would do well to remember.
I’m being a blog tart, but I’m kinda proud of what I’ve written about how our government sold out Iraqi women. The latest word today is that the star of the last State of the Union address, an Iraqi feminist present to prove we “liberated” Iraqis, is now mad at Bush, too.
Thanks for the link. I confess I’ve posted a lot about Kos. Now I’ve said why. And I need a cocktail.