The show Homeland began its third season with record-breaking ratings. The show’s creators Alex Ganza and Howard Gordon, who previously collaborated on the wildly popular series 24, seem to have worked out a successful narrative for the War on Terror during the Obama era.
I have spent over a decade speaking and writing about empire and racism. For the most part this experience has been positive — I have met thousands of amazing people in this country and around the world and have learned so much from their questions and their experiences.
THE MOVIE Zero Dark Thirty has sparked widespread debate, mainly about whether it justifies torture by portraying savage interrogation techniques as necessary to extract information about Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts so he could be assassinated. Criticism of the film has come from the highest levels of the political establishment. In a letter to the CIA, Read the full article…
This piece first appeared at Progressive.org The tragic death of six Sikhs in suburban Milwaukee sheds light on the ugly ways that bigotry works. Since 9/11, Sikhs have often been the target of hate crimes. Balbir Singh Sodhi, a gas station owner in Arizona, was the first such casualty. He was murdered just four days Read the full article…