Author Archives: Mickey Z.

While I was participating in a demonstration against predator drone warfare at the U.S. Armed Forces “Career” Center at Times Square, I watched the passersby closely. From the brief conversations we provoked, I garnered the unsurprising news that plenty of Americans have been conditioned to accept the concepts of targeted assassinations and presidential kill-lists—all in the holy name of national security. Continue reading →

It is the duty of the oppressor to divide, to differentiate, to cultivate and promote false distinctions and then profit from the inevitable false conflicts these distinctions provoke. Continue reading →

It’s repeated so often that few of us even stop to question its validity: “Technology is neutral. It’s only as good or as bad as those using it.” Continue reading →

If every American were to make every single lifestyle change suggested in the film, An Inconvenient Truth, it would only result in a 21 percent decrease in carbon emissions. In fact, while the average human produces 2500 pounds of waste per year, the average per capita waste output is 26 tons . . . because 97 percent of waste is produced by agriculture and industry. Continue reading →