Elections Without Democracy
Posted: Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Rescuers battle as toll climbs in Asia

US Businesses Overseas
Threatened by Rising Anti-Americanism

A Wave of Questions
How does one comprehend the magnitude, impact, and context of a disaster that may claim more than 100,000 lives? But enough about the U.S. occupation of Iraq...
The recent earthquake/tsunami in Asia raises more questions than answers.

NY Times Says Tsunami Kills White People, Too!

'War Crimes' Murmurs
While the right-wingers argue among themselves over the future of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld -whether, for example, to be upset because he signs death notices to military families by machine-a German court is in the early stages of hearing a case brought by German and American public-interest groups accusing Rumsfeld of being a war criminal because of his handling of the Abu Ghraib prison.

The Many Fictions of Iraq

In This Mire Of Death, Lies And Atrocities,
We Glimpse The Ghost Of Vietnam

Iraq 2004 Looks Like Vietnam 1966

No such thing as an ordinary day in Baghdad

Elections Without Democracy
During the 1970's, the apartheid government of South Africa sought to bolster its claims to legitimacy by allowing elections in the Bantustans - the equivalent to today's walled in Palestinian communities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The thought was that if people elected local officials, even to hold largely ceremonial offices, then the rest of the world would stop whining about how undemocratic and illegal apartheid was.



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