Nico Pitney

November 18, 2003

Aggressive Progressive: The Liberals Strike Back

By Nico Pitney

Last week, billionaire financier George Soros announced that he would donate up to $5 million to the progressive grassroots organization, MoveOn.org. Soros called the presidential elections in 2004 "a matter of life and ...

November 4, 2003

Scheming With the Enemy

By Nico Pitney

You missed an impressive milestone last week, if you did not have one eye watching the news ticker. The Associated Press, the largest newsgathering organization in the world, released a story about the ties between Georg...

October 13, 2003

Dubya’s Dwindling Digits

By Nico Pitney

Those with dreams - or nightmares - of George Bush gliding through the 2004 elections into a second term have been snapped into reality by a cascade of recent polls.

October 3, 2003

Arnold Schwarzensexist

By Nico Pitney

Let's start with a few recall election truisms. A week from now, the zany recall circus will be over and California's tax-loving, business-loathing government might just be in the hands of family man and rags-to-riches e...

September 25, 2003

The Unwelcome American

By Nico Pitney

"The Battle of Algiers" depicts the urban guerrilla warfare waged between Algerian nationals and the French colonial army in the 1950s during the struggle for Algerian independence.

May 22, 2003

Perspectively Challenged

By Nico Pitney

His piece begins with the claim, uniformly made by the reactionary Israeli right, that Palestinian suicide bombings are "the obstacle" - notice the singular - to peace.

May 15, 2003

Advertisements Peddle Fear and Doubt

By Nico Pitney

David Reeves referenced the Nexus ads depicting Israeli students and their encounters with terrorism and asked, "What are they trying to sell?" I would like to propose an answer.

March 4, 2003

On March 5, Walk out of Class and Into an Anti-War Protest

By Nico Pitney

The newly formed Student Coalition for Peace calls on UCSB students to join hundreds of other college campuses and participate in the national one-day student strike on March 5, 2003. We believe that the great majority o...

February 24, 2003

More Moral Mathematics

By Nico Pitney

In all spheres of human life, individuals face a massive burden if they wish to justify the use of violence. This burden has never been remotely met by the Bush administration and is becoming even harder to justify in li...

March 8, 2002

Resisting Blind Patriotism

By Nico Pitney

The repercussion I fear most is a radical crystallization of blind and belligerent national pride - the kind that mucks up even the most reliable channels of information, and impedes progress in all facets of social and ...