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Monday, May 1, 2006
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Juan Cole: "A renewed debate on the possible partition of Iraq is emerging. Let's get one thing out of the way. As for letting a civil war rage, deliberately, I don't understand. Everyone is (rightly) complaining about world inaction on the genocide in the Sudan. But here you want to provoke a genocide (maybe a million dead and 5 million displaced) and have troops in the region and not intervene? Doesn't that make you worse than Khartoum? It is despicable. And, remember that such a war a) would not stay inside Iraq--it would become regional; and b) a full-scale war in the Persian Gulf region will lead to a big increase in your gasoline prices (as in, you ain't seen nuttin' yet). Personally, I am against breaking up Iraq. I don't think it is more unworkable than Nigeria or Lebanon. And, the consequences are unforeseeable and potentially very, very dangerous. I do, however, believe that the tendencies toward separatism must be recognized and managed. I say that we make 5 superprovinces: Deep South, Middle Euphrates, Baghdad, Sunnistan, and Kurdistan, along with two smaller ethnic enclaves, of Turkomanistan and Chaldeanistan in the north. Bear with me."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
6:06:30 AM 
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Today is a big day for immigration supporters. Here's an article from the Rocky Mountain News about students from North High and their plans for protest. From the article, "Today, 50,000 or more demonstrators are expected to march from Viking Park at 29th Avenue and Federal Boulevard, directly across the street from North High, into downtown Denver. Similar rallies are set for cities across the U.S. today. As many as 400 North students are expected to join the marchers. Nearly 90 percent of the school's 1,230 students are Hispanic. Some are illegal immigrants themselves. Others are children of undocumented workers. And some come from activist families who have called Denver home for generations, but are passionate about immigrant rights. Students at North are thrilled to find themselves at ground zero for the local immigrant rights movement, which has erupted this spring with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets in cities all over the country. Organizational meetings have been held right across the street at Escuela Tlatelolco, a school with many Latino activists and long ties to civil rights causes."
Here's a report from the Denver Post dealing with employers and their preparations for today's boycott.
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
5:43:21 AM
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