Author: palaverer

I recently participated in an exchange in a comments thread.  I responded to: My understanding is the public is already ready to blame the GOP and not Obama for a shutdown, although congressional democrats get some blame as...

Vine Deloria, in Custer Died for Your Sins:  An Indian Manifesto, had two intended audiences: Indians and white people.  His project, throughout his whole career, was to undermine the intellectual assumptions that...

With all the goings-on in Africa and Southwest Asia, Al Jazeera has become my newspaper of choice (though it’s not a newspaper…) much like the Financial Times did in the run-up to the current Iraq War.  Al...

Without question, Moammar Gaddafi is a relic of a different age, in this case the immediate post-colonial world.  One cannot understand his career without bearing this context in mind.  One also needs to understand...

I was going over my various newsfeeds, and this article came up on the Angry Indian’s site: By any political estimate, the Native  Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act commonly known as the Akaka Bill  is dead...