August 2003

by Jenni Minner

Although the Bush administration's Roadmap for Peace is mentioned in the mainstream media, the realities of Palestinian life are often distorted or unreported. Many Americans hear nothing about the Separation Fence (a.k.a. the Apartheid Wall) that Israel constructs, separating many Palestinians from their land, water, schools and services, thus putting Palestine under even tighter Israeli control. It is rare that Americans are able to hear critical analyses of the situation or perspectives that connect the situation to overall American foreign policy.

July 2003

by Jenni Minner

Years ago, I sat in a boat in Lake Union and watched the largest military helicopter I had ever seen descend upon Seattle crowds with a gigantic flag attached to it. It was a frightening display and strangely prescient of today's growing ideology of US dominance and of an increasingly rigid political climate in which citizens are now expected to be blindly patriotic, unquestioning, and controllable as they cower in front of their television sets waiting for the world's terrorists to be obliterated. The message of Independence Day is one of military might written in the sky with . . .