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::Just Interesting::

Image Free Zone. The name says it all.

Geography Quiz. Test your geography knowledge.

Astronomy Picture of the Day. Be sure to check out "A Lenticular Cloud over Hawaii," August 21, 2005, "Orion in Infrared," April 19, 2005, and "Reflections on the Horsehead Nebula," November 30, 2005.

KCRW: Morning Becomes Eclectic. Progressive, world-beat, African, reggae, singer-song-writer, jazz, and classical music. Like the name it's pretty eclectic.

KPFA: Off The Beaten Path. Breaks, beats, and frequencies, including ambient, dub, drum 'n' bass, hip hop, noise, world music, and the indescribable.

Internet Archive. Universal Access to Human Knowledge. Take a look at their audio archive -- they have lots of free music from talented independent artists. (note: SCHAS, June 14, 2002. Great American Music Hall. A completely improvised set by some amazing artists).

::David Foster Wallace, RIP 1962-2008::

Commencement Address to Kenyon College. 2005.

The Compliance Branch. Harper's Magazine. February 2008.

Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars Over Usage.  Harper's Magazine. April 2001.

Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise. Harper's Magazine. January 1996.

You can purchase his books here.

::Presidential Primary Election 2008::

Primary Data and Articles.

::Sudan: a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Sudan right now::

Top UN Envoy for Prevention of Genocide on Darfur. Democracy Now. January 2006.

Dire Humanitarian Situation in Southern Sudan. Democracy Now. January 2006.

The Forgotten Conflicts in Sudan. April 2004. Douglas Johnson reviews James Currey's book on Sudan.

Darfur at the Crossroads: Caught Between Western Hypocrisy And Muslim Complicity. Farid Omar. August 2004.

A Call for Sudan. David Nally. July 2004.

Sudan: Can we learn? Khalid Fishawy and Ahmed Zaki. August 2004.

Africa Watch. 

::Iran: The Build-up to Conflict::

The Iran Plans. The New Yorker. Seymour Hersh. April 2006.

Iran Warns US of "Harm and Pain" in Nuclear Dispute. Financial Times London. February 2006.

U.S. Prepares a Military Blitz Against Iran's Nuclear Sites. London Telegraph. February 2006.

Russia Warns U.S. Against Striking Iran. AP News. February 2006.

::Immigration::

US Counts Cost of Day Without Immigrants. The Guardian UK. May 2006. (Note: The May 1 protest was the single largest protest in America's history -- on any issue including civil rights.)

After Immigration Protests, Goal Remains Elusive. New York Times. May 3, 2006.

US Senate to Make New Try at Immigration Law After Record Protests. AFP News. May 2, 2006.

Bush Was In Favor of National Anthem in Spanish in 2001. Daily Kos. May 2006.

1919: The US Commissioned a Spanish Version of National-Anthem. Library of Congress.

4 Separate Versions of National Anthem. US Department of State.

National Protest Numbers. April 11, 2006.

National Map of Protests. April 11, 2006.

For Immigrants and Protests, Rift on Protests. New York Times. April 15, 2006.

Bakersfield, Jastro Park Protest (Part I) . N.L. Belardes. April 10, 2006.

Bakersfield, Jastro Park Protest (Part II) . N.L. Belardes. April 10, 2006.

A New Civil Rights Movement. Chhandasi Pandya. ZNET. April 10, 2006.

The War on Immigrants. Stephen Lendman. ZNET. April 11, 2006.

Zogby Poll: Americans Skeptical Washington Will Find Right Solution. April 11, 2006.

The United Farm Workers.

::Standardized Testing in Universities::

Panel Explores Standardized Testing for Colleges. New York Times. February 2006.

::Miscellaneous Readings::

Amid Policy Disputes, Qaeda Grows in Pakistan. International Herald Tribune. June 2008.

The 60s Begin to Fade as Liberal Professors Retire. New York Times. July 2008.

Poll: 6 in 10 People Are Unable to Locate Iraq on a Map. AP News. May 2006.

Bakersfield Schools: How did we fair on standardized testing?.The Bakersfield Californian. March 2006.

Walkout: A review of the Bakersfield showing at the Fox Theatre. The Bakersfield Californian. March 2006.

A Nation of Guinea Pigs: How India Became the Global Hot Spot for Drug Trials. Wired Magazine. March 2006.

Senate Votes to Raise Debt Limit to 9 Trillion. AP News. March 2006. (note: also, take a look at the U.S. National Debt Clock and be sure to hit 'refresh' several times -- watch it grow!).

Payola: Paying for Play on the Radio. ABC News. February 2006.

Domino's Pizza Founder Plans to Build Catholic Only Town. The Sunday Times. February 2006.

"Buddha Boy" Reappears. BBC News. March 2006.

"Buddha Boy" Disappears. London Telegraph. March 2006.

Scientists to Check 'Buddha Boy.' BBC News. November 2005.

Doctors Claim Suspended Animation Success. Press Association. January 2006.

Average American Consumes up to 9 Hours of Media -- A Day! AP News.

Text Messages: An Analysis. Washington Post. December 2005.

It's Not the Culture Stupid: Interpreting the U.S. Election. Ken Hirschkop. Radical Philosophy. February 2005.

Mindful of Symbols: On the way to learning that one thing can represent another, young children often conflate the real item and its symbol. Scientific American. July 2005.

The Genetic Mystery of Music: Does a Mother's Lullaby Give and Infant a Better Chance for Survival? Josie Glausiusz. Discovery. August 2001.

Prone to Violence. The National Interest. January 2006.

Media Moguls Weak on Charity. Variety. March 25, 2005.

    Umberto Eco: From Aristotle to Sherlock Holmes. A presentation at the University of California, Berkeley. October 2002.

Notions of Beauty: What is Aesthetically Ideal in Art? Umberto Eco. The Guardian. October 2004.

U.S. Social Stratification Data. Provided by Inequality.org.

Poverty and Income in 2003. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. 2003.

70% Interest Rate: A Credit Card Aimed at The Poor. The Guardian. February 2005.

Firm Puts Ads on Signs for Panhandlers. AP News. May 2002.

Report: Whites Receive Better Health Care. Salon. March 2002.

The President of Good and Evil. Scott O'Reilly. From Philosophy Now. A review of Peter Singer's review of George W. Bush's statements on ethics. 

Democracy Matters are Frightening in Our Times. Chapter 1 from, Cornel West. Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism. September 2004.

The Crisis of Christian Identity in America. Cornel West. Chapter 5 from, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism. September 2004.

The Necessary Engagement with Youth Culture. Cornel West. Chapter 6 from, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism. September 2004.

Empire, Pragmatism, and War: A Conversation with Cornel West. Eduardo Mendieta. Logos Journal.

Democracy Matters are Frightening in Our Times. Cornel West. This essay appeared as an earlier version of Chapter 1 above.

Entering Global Anarchy. Immanuel Wallerstein. New Left Review. August 2003.

The United States Versus Latin America. Immanuel Wallerstein. November 2005.

The Rise of the Brand State. Peter Van Ham. Foreign Affairs. October 2001.

Pizza Hut, Domino's, and the Public Schools. Andrew Stark. Policy Review. 2000.

Intolerance Chiseled in Stone Hits City Hard: (a 73-year-old Topeka, Kan., pastor, Rev. Fred Phelps, has designed a granite monument engraved with Shepard's face followed by these word chiseled in the stone: "Matthew Shepard Entered Hell October 12, 1998, at Age 21 In Defiance of God's Warning: 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is abomination.' Leviticus 18:22"). LA Times. October 2003.

Bystanders to Genocide. (On the 1994 genocide in Rwanda). Samantha Power. Atlantic Monthly. September 2001.

Pol Pot's Cambodian Utopia. (On Pol Pot's social experiment that killed 20 percent of Cambodia). From the The Christian Science Monitor, Review of Books. February 2005. 

Counting Sheep: The Proselytizing Zeal of American Missionaries Knows No Slack Even in Tsunami Aid. Outlook India. January 2005.

Transcendence, Hope, & Ecstasy: A Historical Look at Political Passion and Fun. Barbara Ehrenreich.

The Vision-Impaired Rich. Barbara Ehrenreich.

On Writing. Barbara Ehrenreich.

Sumatra Places. Michael Ault. August 2001.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking. Rebecca Solnit. August 2001.

    Ralph Nader: On Corporate and Government Responsibility. A presentation at the University of California, April 2002.

Corporate Patriotism. Ralph Nader. November 2001.

Enron's Pawns: How Public Institutions Bankrolled Enron's Globalization Game. Jim Vallette and Daphne Wysham. Sustainable Energy and Economy Network. March 2002.

Democratic Vistas. Walt Whitman. 1871.

The American Founding as the Best Regime. Harry V. Jaffa. May 2002.

    Natural Law and American Political Thought. Harry V. Jaffa. A presentation at Princeton University. September 2003.

    A Conversation with Harry V. Jaffa. Edward Erler interviews Harry Jaffa. Liberty Fund. 2003.

    Where There is Smoke There is Fire: The Case of Leo Strauss. Werner Dannhauser. A presentation at Boston College. October 2003.

    Philosophy Colloquium: On Leo Strauss. Melbourne University.

     What’s Your Political Ideology? Harvey Mansfield. A presentation at Boston College. April 2004.

The Conservatism of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas G. West. (PLSI 490: Please note - the actual title of the article is Jaffa's Lincolnian Defense of the Founding).

Conservatism Defined: Harry V. Jaffa versus Harvey C. Mansfield. Thomas G. West. November 2002.

A Conservative of the Old School (On Russell Kirk, one of the founders of post-war conservatism in the U.S.).

     The Political Philosophy of the Constitution. Edward Erler.

Fukuyama's Moment: A Neocon Schism Opens. Danny Postel. October 2004. Open Democracy.

After Neoconservatism. Francis Fukuyama. NY Times. February 2006.

    Great Books, Good Business: The Importance of Liberal Arts Education. A panel discussion at Boston College. September 2005.

    The First Democracy at War: Athens in the Pages of Herodotus. Clifford Orwin. A presentation at Boston College. December 2004.

   Log Cabin Republicans. Patrick Guerriero. A presentation at Boston College. April 2004.

US Tourism ‘Losing Billions Because of Image.’ London Financial Times. May 2005.

The Magic of Images: Word and Picture in a Media Age. Camille Paglia.

The State of Welfare: United States 2003. Tony Platt. Monthly Review.

Planet of Slums. Mike Davis. New Left Review. April 2004.

Civilian Bombings. George Orwell.

Conversations With a Pacifist. George Orwell.

Why I Write. George Orwell.

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. Peggy McIntosh. 1989.

Race-ing Justice: The Prison Industrial Complex. Manning Marable. Z-Net. September 1999.

Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage. David Foster Wallace. Harper's Magazine. April 2001.

Diagramming Sentences: Gertrude Stein's Most Exciting Exercise. Kitty Burns Florey.

A Warning to Students of All Ages. Raoul Vaneigem. 1995.

Art Sabotage. Hakim Bey. 1985

The Revolution of Everyday Life. Raoul Vaneigem.

The Society of the Spectacle. Guy Debord.

Guy Debord and the Situationists. Peter Marshall. 2000.

The Use of Free Time. Internationale Situationniste #4, 1960.

Philosophizing Post-Punk. Ben Watson. Radical Philosophy. August 2005.

Digital Resistance: Explorations in Tactical Media. Autonomedia.

The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation.

Powerpointless. Joab Jackson. Baltimore City Paper. April 2001.

Celebrity, Irony and You. Thomas de Zengotita. The Nation. December 1996.

World World: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blob. Harper's Magazine. July 2000.

The Numbing of the American Mind. Thomas de Zengotita. Harper's Magazine. April 2002.

The Numbing of the American Mind. Thomas de Zengotita. Harper's Magazine. April 2002.

The Romance of Empire: and the politics of self-love. Thomas de Zengotita. Harper's Magazine. April 2002.

The Gunfire Dialogues (How media influences children prone to violence). Thomas de Zengotita. Harper's Magazine. July 2002.

Herbert Marcuse: The Radical Movement (Part One). A video biography of one of the most well-known members of The Frankfurt School, Herbert Marcuse. 1996. (Part Two is here).

Margaret Mead: Creative Intelligence: Female ("The Silent Revolution: Creative Man in Contemporary Society."). An audio presentation at the University of California, Berkeley. 1962.

The Virtual World. Thomas de Zengotita. Video presentation at Columbia’s Center for New Media Technology. March 2002.

The American Rome (United Nations Human Rights Commission). Lewis Lapham, Harper's. August 2001.

The American Rome. Lewis Lapham. A presentation at Victoria University. March 2003

Reflections on Responsible Leadership: In the Classroom, in the White House, and Elsewhere. Howard Zinn. A presentation at Boston College. September 2004.

America's Blinders. Howard Zinn. The Progressive. April 2006.

American Ideology (Introduction). Howard Zinn. Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology. October 1991.

Violence and Human Nature. Howard Zinn. Chapter 3 from, Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology. October 1991.

Economic Justice: The American Class System. Howard Zinn. Chapter 7 from, Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology. October 1991.

Free Speech: Second Thoughts on the First Amendment. Howard Zinn. Chapter 8 from, Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology. October 1991.

Representative Government: The Black Experience. Howard Zinn. Chapter 9 from, Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology. October 1991.

A More Perfect Union? U.S. Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill). A presentation at Boston College. March 2003.

Michel Foucault: The Culture of Self. An audio presentation at the University of California, Berkeley. April 1983.

Malcolm X: An Interview. An interview at the University of California, Berkeley. October 1963.

Speaking for Ourselves. Makani Themba-Nixon and Nan Rubin. The Nation. November 2003.

L'Amerique, Mon Amour (on Alexis de Tocqueville's, Democracy in America). Daniel Lazare. The Nation. April 2004.

The Roaring Nineties. Joseph Stiglitz, The Atlantic Monthly. October 2002.

The Second Treatise. John Locke.

Remembering Adorno. John Abromeit. Radical Philosophy. April 2004.

Prologue to Television. Theodor Adorno.

Television as Ideology. Theodor Adorno.

How to Look at Television. Theodor Adorno.

The Culture of Celebrity: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Writings.

The Influence and Effects of Mass Media. Dennis McQuail. Mass Communication and Society. 1979.

The Multiple Effects of Television on Public Opinion. Stephen Ansolabehere, Roy Behr, and Shanto Iyengar. The Media Game.

How Synthetic Experience Shapes Social Reality. G. Ray Funkhouser and Eugene Shaw. Journal of Communication. 1990.

Political Communication Systems and Democratic Values. Michael Gurevitch and Jay Blumler. Democracy and Mass Media. 1990.

Iraq and the Imperial Vision. Noam Chomsky. A presentation at Boston College. March 2003.

The Propaganda Model (part 1). Noam Chomsky. From The Manufacture of Consent: The Political-Economy of the Mass Media.

The Propaganda Model (part 2). Noam Chomsky. From The Manufacture of Consent: The Political-Economy of the Mass Media.

Worthy and Unworthy Victims. Noam Chomsky. From The Manufacture of Consent: The Political-Economy of the Mass Media.

The Manufacture of Consent. Noam Chomsky. From The Chomsky Reader.

Democracy and the Media. Noam Chomsky. From The Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies.

Containing the Enemy. Noam Chomsky. From The Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies.

Democracy and Education. Noam Chomsky. Chapter 2 from, Chomsky on Mis-Education. Rowman and Littlefield. 2000.

Market Democracy in a Neo-Liberal Order: Doctrines and Reality. Noam Chomsky. Chapter 4 from, Chomsky on Mis-Education. Rowman and Littlefield. 2000.

Partisan Politics: Michael Parenti. Chapter 1 from, Democracy for the Few.

Wealth and Want in the United States: Michael Parenti. Chapter 2 from, Democracy for the Few.

A Constitution for the Few. Michael Parenti. Chapter 4 from, Democracy for the Few.

Political Entertainment. Michael Parenti. Chapter 1. Make-Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment. 1992.

Swarthy Hordes and Other Aliens. Michael Parenti. Chapter 2. Make-Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment. 1992.

Make-Believe History. Michael Parenti. Chapter 4. Make-Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment. 1992.

Handicapped by History: The Process of Hero-making. James Loewen. Chapter 1 from, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Footnotes.

Red Eyes. James Loewen. Chapter 4 from, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Footnotes.

Gone With the Wind: The Invisibility of Racism in American History Textbooks. James Loewen. Chapter 5 from, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Footnotes.

Watching Big Brother: What Textbooks Teach About the Federal Government. James Loewen. Chapter 8 from, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Footnotes attached to article.

Nixon's Splendid Little War: Social Crisis and Containment. Christian Parenti. Chapter 1 from, Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis. Verso. 2000.

Discipline in Playland, Part I - Zero Tolerance: The Science of Kicking Ass. Christian Parenti. Chapter 4 from, Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis. Verso. 2000.

Big Bucks from the Big House: The Prison Industrial Complex and Beyond. Christian Parenti. Chapter 11 from, Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis. Verso. 2000.

Preface and Chapter 1. Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 1970, 2000.

Chapter 2. Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 1970, 2000.

Chapter 1: Engaged Pedagogy. bell hooks. Teaching to Transgress. 1994.

Chapter 5: Theory as Liberatory Practice. bell hooks. Teaching to Transgress. 1994.

Imperial Amnesia. John Judis. Foreign Policy. August 2004.

L'Amerique, Mon Amour (on Alexis de Tocqueville's, Democracy in America). Daniel Lazare. The Nation. April 2004.

Future Unknown: Machiavelli for the Twenty-First Century. Gopal Balakrishan. New Left Review. April 2005.

Interrogating Subcultures. Amy Herzog, Joanna Mitchell, and Lisa Soccio.

The Roaring Nineties. Joseph Stiglitz, The Atlantic Monthly. Ocbtober 2002.

Our Climb to the Sublime: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess. Robert Frank.

The Meaning of Life 101. Laura Miller.

::Online Study Guides::

The Electronic Storyteller: TV and the Cultivation of Values.

Independent Media in a Time of War.

No Logo.

On No Logo: A Review of the Book. Tom Mertes. New Left Review. August 2000.

Constructing Public Opinion.

Rich Media, Poor Democracy.

Toxic Sludge is Good for You.

Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live In It.

On Writing a Literature Review.

::Literature::

The Harvest. Amy Hempel.

She Breaks Your Heart. Chuck Palahniuk on Amy Hempel. Chuck Palahniuk wrote the book Fight Club.

The Roman Plays. William Shakespeare.
        Titus Andronicus.
        Coriolanus.
        Julius Caesar.  
        Antony and Cleopatra.
   
The Second Tetralogy. William Shakespeare.
        Richard II.
        Henry IV, part one.
        Henry IV, part two.
        Henry V.

The First Tetralogy. William Shakespeare.
        Henry VI, part one.
        Henry VI, part two.
        Henry VI, part three.
        Richard III.

::Images and Maps::

The Magic of Images.

Piraeus, Greece.

The Republic, Images from Book I.

Chiron, the Centaur.

Sri Krishna: An incarnation of Vishnu, from The Bhagavad Gita.

Niccolo Machiavelli.

The Leviathan. Thomas Hobbes.

::Global Climate Change - It's not "if," but "when?"::

The Climate is Crashing, and Global Warming is to Blame. Why the Crisis Hit So Soon--and What We Can Do About It. Time Magazine. March 2006.

Feeling the Heat: Global Warming is already disrupting the biological world. Time Magazine. March 2006.

How it affects Your Health. Time Magazine. March 2006.

Ice Caps Melting Twice as Fast as Expected. The Independent (UK). February 2006.

EPA Science Panel Challenges EPA Chief for Ignoring Scientific Findings. LA Times. February 2006.

January Was America's Warmest on Record. AP News. February 2006.

Sea Level Rise is Accelerating. BBC News. January 2006.

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. BBC News. March 2005.

Global Warming is Biggest Issue We Face. AP News. June 2005.

US Official Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming. The New York Times. June 2005.

Ford To Write a Report on Global Warming. AP News. March 31, 2005

The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare. David Stipp, Fortune Magazine. January 2004. Please note Fortune Magazine is hardly a "liberal" magazine. The fact that this appeared in Fortune, a leading conservative, business-oriented magazine, should indicate the severity of this problem. 

Read what the United States' Own Environmental Protection Agency Says About Global Climate Change.  

Global Warming: Scientists Reveal Timetable. The Independent Online Edition. February 2005.

Kilimanjaro is Melting at a Faster Rate than Predicted. Reuters News. March 2005

Two-Thirds of World's Resources 'Used Up.' The Guardian Unlimited. March 2005

::Political Inquiry and Methodology::

Chapter One: Introduction. Political Science Research Methods. Johnson and Reynolds.

Chapter Two: Studying Politics Scientifically. Political Science Research Methods. Johnson and Reynolds.

Can a Mathematical Idea Have Political Import? Jim Holt. Lingua Franca. June 2001.

Participant Observation. H. Russell Bernard. Chapter 13 from, Research Methods in Anthropology. 2002.

Thick Description: Toward an Interpretative Theory of Culture. Clifford Geertz. Chapter 1 from, The Interpretation of Cultures.1973.

From Abstract to Concrete: Operationalization and Measurement . Jarol Manheim and Richard Rich. Chapter 4. Empirical Political Analysis: Research Methods in Political Science. 

Models and Theories. Ronald Giere. Chapter 2. Understanding Scientific Reasoning.

Explanation and Prediction in Political Inquiry. Isaak. Chapter 7.

Theories and Models: Explanation and Discovery. Isaak. Chapter 8.

Descriptive Statistics. Doing Statistics with SPSS. Chapter 2.

Introduction to Experimentation. Doing Statistics with SPSS. Chapter 4.

What Corporations Really Want from Government: The Public Provision of Private Goods. R. Kenneth Godwin and Barry Seldon. Interest Group Politics. 6th Edition. Edited by Allan Cigler and Burdett Loomis. CQ Press. 2002. 

Property Rights, Democracy, and Economic Growth. David Leblang. Political Research Quarterly. Vol. 49, No. 1. March 1996. Available from JSTOR.

::Local Issues::

Bad Air Costs Valley $3 Billion a Year. The Bakersfield Californian. March 2006.

The Central Valley's Not So Civil War. LA Times. February 2006.

Bakersfield's Air is Third Worst in the United States, 2005. American Lung Association's, State of the Air Report, 2005. 

Bakersfield's Air is Third Worst in the United States, 2004. American Lung Association's, State of the Air Report, 2004. 

Bakersfield's Air is Second Worst in the United States, 2002. The Bakersfield Californian. April 2002.

State of the Air 2002. American Lung Association, 2002. 

Air Quality in the San Joaquin Valley. Earthjustice.

More on Bakersfield Air. 2003

Bakersfield Cultural Exchange (BCE).

Read an article about the BCE.

Bakersfield, CA. A rap song about Bakersfield.

College Graduates Steer Clear of Bakersfield. The Bakersfield Californian. October 2005.

::Political Resources::

Democracy Now. 

Mexico Solidarity Network.

Z Magazine.

FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting: The National Media Watchgroup).

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute.

Foreign Policy in Focus (A Think Tank Without Walls).

Testimony of Attorney General John Ashcroft Senate Committee on the Judiciary. December 6, 2001.

President Bush's Speech on Iraq. October 7. 2002.

President Bush's Interview on Iraq. February 8, 2004.

Additional Media Resources

::Other Miscellaneous Readings I::

Bhagavad Gita.

The Vedas.         

The Upanishads. 

The Ramayana.

::Other Miscellaneous Readings II::

The Second Treatise. John Locke. 

The Declaration of Independence. 
 
The U.S. Constitution. 

The Federalist Papers. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.

::Other Miscellaneous Readings III::

Isabel Allende (1942-present).

::Poetry::

The Road Not Taken. Robert Frost.

Ulysses. Alfred Tennyson. 1842.

Sonnet #94. William Shakespeare.

::Selected Projects::

“Hope: A Longitudinal Study of President Obama’s First Term.” In collaboration with students in PLSI 380 (Research Methods II) and 481 (Research Methods III). Winter and Spring 2009. Work in progress.

"Verities of Vegetarianism." Co-authored with Monica Evans. In, Food Politics at Home and Abroad. Edited by, Stanley Clark. Kendall Hunt Publishing. 2007.

"Jack Burden's Mistaken Idealism: Exploring Nietzsche’s ‘Numb Rationalism’ in All the King's Men." Paper presented at the Kegley Institute of Ethics Conference on, "Politics, Corruption and Ethics: All the King's Men and Contemporary Political Life (The Sixtieth Year Anniversary)," March 7, 2007.

Travel and Study: Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. Summer 2005.

Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice. Guest Co-editor for special edition titled, "Subcultures and Political Resistance." December 2004.

The Phim Project. Summer 2002.

Sumatra Places. August 2001.

For more see, My Curriculum Vitae.

::Images and Wanderings::

My Photography.

::Family and Friends::

Genotype: A Flight Concepts Adventure. Robert Ault (my brother's first novel), 2005.

 

Artwork by Arianna Hernandez. (My niece).