You obviously reject real world evidence every day which disproves your bankrupt Utopian "philosophy."
Why would we believe you'd embrace evidence presented to you by your students, over whom you hold complete power?
Regurgitating Marxist dogma doesn't seem to be a very good indicator of your ability to engage in "critical thinking."
America's been very, very good to you.
You should recognize nonsense like that by the stench Meddling Halfbright leaves on it. This notion of '5000 dead Iraqi children a day owing to US sanctions' is a myth arising from the (deliberate?) misinterpretation of a UN population study of Iraq done in the wake of the war. The study showed that Iraq's population was smaller than it would have been had the war not occurred, and that the difference was largely due to a lower birth rate - as opposed to war casualties, disease, pogroms, bombing and so on. This numerical difference between how many Iraqi children there would have been and how many there actually were came to mean - with the help of the lazy and stupid media - that those children had died. This nonsense has been floating around the net ever since, and goes pretty much unchallenged.
As an aside, have you noticed how, when the economic sanctions on Iraq are mentioned in the context of keeping nukes out of Saddam's hands, they are described - accurately - as the UN sanctions, but when mentioned in the context of the suffering of the Iraqi people they are described as the US sanctions? Just wondering if you had ever noticed that.
Meddling Halfbright is a damned fool whose major accomplishment was blundering her way into a someone else's shooting war on the side of unsavory Islamofascists. (That, and blowing up the Chinese embassy.) You don't have to be one as well, so drop this bit about the dead Iraqi children.
I share your disgust over the death threats. Every nut job has an email account these days. But remember the Arkansas church-burning 'crisis' of a few years ago, where a few churches were burned and the media tried to pin it on right-wing talk radio? It turns out, some were the work of a Satanic cult, some were accidental, some were insurance fires, and one was started by a black man to drum up buiness for a relative's construction company. You never saw a story disappear so fast. Just remember that some of those threats are coming from left-wing crazies who can't stand to see a socialist prophet go unpersecuted.
Second, you take on far too much for any person to hope to reply to - listing every leftist accusation you can think of. I'll attempt a brief reply to your garbage about "Israel's wars of occupation". Any reasonable reading of the Arab-Israeli conflict leads to Jabotinski's characterization before the Peel Commission in 1937. Paraphasing - two incompatible peoples are struggling for one piece of land in order to perpetuate their way of life. If the Jews win the Arab way of life will survive in other parts of the Arab world. If the Arabs win the Jewish way of life may disappear from the earth. Nothing much has changed since '37. The Jewish wars of occupation are a part of this struggle. You may have some vision of a peaceful settlement. I don't. You want to blame the suffering of the Palestinians on the greed of the Israelis. I can't tell you the rage that I feel towards you.
Third, there's something wrong with your argument about 4% of the people controlling 60% of the resources. We had quite a bit to do with making those resources useful. For example, of what use was oil to a nation of camel drivers? And so on. I won't elaborate.
Fourth, you ought to reference your original post. You aren't the center of the world. Many of us either didn't see it, didn't think to read it, or didn't care to read it. Fifth, everything I've said is in response to only a paragraph of two. Frankly, I found the reading turgid and difficult. I'll try to struggle through the remainder - out of common decency - but I make no promises.
Donations are accepted.
Palestine.... including the suicide bombers and rabid anti-Semetism and third generation refugees. If it weren't for being on the UN dole (mostly U.S. dollars) maybe they'd have settled some land and built an economy.
As for economics....it's not about resources why did Hong Kong develop so well with not resources, as opposed to Tanzania which has plenty of resources.
It's all about economic freedom, there are two ways to exchange things of value through dollars or force, this is why capitalism is the only moral system.
That sure is a lot of "rhetoric" in your kollege profile.
BTW, is one of your fantasies to be dominated by a Soviet Bull-dyke in some dark and dank gulag?
I'm sure it is. ;-)
I hear it's hot in Austin, these days. Have a cup of Kool-Aid....I'll mix it for ya!
No wonder you won't defend a word of it.
That means some male had sex with you at least once!!?!?!
I think that I am going to be sick. You disgust me in every way possible.
God bless your poor daughter and God save you if he feels that it is right to do so.
Eaker
PS: Abortion is murder. You should be in jail.
Dana,
You seem a bit confused for a college professor from a "universe-ity"
You don't know there is a difference between patriotism and nationalism?
Marx would be very proud of your writing skills in promoting this claptrap
Err. I mean propaganda.
I read that thing. It was neither brief, nor condensed.
Hmm, tell that to the Japanese, the Koreans, the Taiwanese, those in Hong Kong (at least before the ChiComs took over), in Singapore and many other formerly developing places. Certainly Communism never "liberated" anyone, neither in it's Russian nor it's Chinese forms. It has killed millions though.
Fourteen paragraphs to try to make your point.
If you can't get it out in a few grafs you're just blowing smoke and obfuscating!