Archive for March, 2007
“If I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world”
2 Comments Published by Ryan March 25th, 2007 in Seriousness.These words were written by Malachi Ritscher (pictured above) shortly before he set himself on fire. On an early November morning in Chicago, he brought a can of gasoline and a book of matches before an audience of rush-hour commuters, and performed his own coup de grace. When his protest of the United […]
The Power of Nightmares is a terrific and provocative documentary on the culture of fear that has dominated American politics since 9/11. While there have been plenty of documentaries on the war on terrorism in recent memory, Nightmares keeps company with the best of them–Why We Fight, Control Room, The Fog of War–with one […]
