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 Members of the U.S. Congress spent the summer touring the United States in what they said was an effort to find common ground on the difficult choices involved in fixing America's broken immigration system. Talking to Americans might help legislators take the temperature of voters on a tough and divisive election issue. But it adds little to Congress's understanding, or the American public's, of the larger forces driving contemporary migration - and of the debates and lessons learned from around the world.
The news media hasn't been of much help either in lifting the level of debate. A review of 150 newspaper editorials from the first eight months of 2006 on the subject of immigration reform revealed that only nine gave serious consideration to the multiple economic and social factors at work in migration today. And only four called for increased efforts by the United States to work more closely with its neighbors to the south to foster economic and social development in the region.
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4th September 2006 - Wayne Tompkins, The Courier-Journal. The world once looked to the United States as a beacon of good governance, George Soros believes. But in the five years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks the nation has lost its way, the international financier asserts in his latest book. |
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31st August 2006, Reuters In the world's biggest economy, one in eight Americans and almost one in four blacks lived in poverty last year, the U.S. Census Bureau said on Tuesday, both ratios virtually unchanged from 2004. |
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31st July 06, Amnesty International Responding to the U.N. Human Rights Committee conclusions regarding the United States’ compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Amnesty International said that the United States government must recognize that it is failing to meet a range of fundamental human rights obligations at home and abroad. |
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 Just recently, I was accused by a writer for the ultra-Right Washington Times of being a "defeatist" when it comes to America's expansionist military policy abroad. The giveaway, it seems, is that I penned a book for the American Empire Project -- a series of critical volumes published by Metropolitan Books.
Contributors to the series, the article claimed, want "a retreat from Iraq to be the prelude to a larger collapse of American preeminence worldwide." My initial response on reading this was to insist -- like so many anxious liberals -- that no, I am not opposed to American preeminence in the world, only to continued U.S. involvement in Iraq. But then, considering the charge some more, I thought, well, yes, I am in favor of abandoning the U.S. imperial role worldwide. The United States, I'm convinced, would be a whole lot better off -- and its military personnel a whole lot safer -- if we repudiated the global-dominance project of the Bush administration and its neo-conservative boosters. |
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27th June 06 - George Lakoff, Marc Ettlinger, and Sam Ferguson, Rockridge Institute Progressives have fallen into a trap. Emboldened by President Bush’s plummeting approval ratings, progressives increasingly point to Bush's "failures" and label him and his administration as incompetent. |
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17th June 06, Ewen MacAskill, The Guardian (UK) Findings also show fall in support for war on terror. Decline in America's image 'all to do with Iraq' George Bush's six years in office have so damaged the image of the US that people worldwide see Washington as a bigger threat to world peace than Tehran, according to a global poll. |
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