Tag Archives: International Court of Justice

General Petraeus, War Crimes and culpability

September 23, 2013 · by · in History, peace protesters, Protests · Leave a comment

We had a lively discussion (code for ‘I seriously lost my temper’) a few weeks ago on Sex and Politics. I thought we’d be discussing the proposed bombing of Syria, but the topic was General David Petraeus. For those of you not keeping up, he has been hired to teach at CUNY, and there are significant […]

Don’t Know much about History: Ron Reagan, War Criminal

September 11, 2013 · by · in Don't know much about..., History, Protests, Uncategorized · 7 Comments

Finally–someone (in the form of Stephen Colbert) called out Bill O’Reilly for constantly bringing up Ronald Reagan in all the discussion of Obama’s reaction to Syria’s alleged poison gas attack. I don’t take Bill-o terribly seriously anyway, but since the memes about Reagan are constantly being picked up, let’s be clear: Reagan inarguably made the […]

Don’t know much about history…

January 14, 2013 · by · in Don't know much about..., tax policy for the 99%, Uncategorized · 5 Comments

I know when I’m watching a bad interview on TV or the Internet. The question comes up: “What was the most influential book you read in (high school, college)?” Standard answers include the Bible, Catcher in the Rye, Atlas Shrugged (though not in MY crowd), A Separate Peace, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. You know […]