Californians are likely to pay more for gasoline, electricity, food and new homes — and to feel their lives jolted in myriad other ways — because their state broadly expanded its war on climate change this summer.
Because every state justifies its wars on the grounds of self-defense or altruism, Chomsky is correct that any "profession of noble intent is predictable, and therefore carries no information".
The US's overriding goal in the region is its fight against Islamist militancy, both because of its global "war on terror" and because attacks by Pakistan-based militants are killing an increasing number of US troops in neighbouring Afghanistan.
Bisexuality is a troubling state for many to grasp, simply because it wages war on the very idea of totality.
It is a role that goes with the fact that America is now, more than ever, fully engaged almost everywhere because of its declared war on terrorism.
But don't we need to say firmly that it is precisely because the war on terror offers so strong a temptation to torture that the temptation must be resisted?
This framing had rhetorical power, but it quickly drew criticism because a war on terror has no boundaries in space or time, and no prospect of ever ending.
One reviewer pointed to the retread of some themes from HBO and David Simon's earlier works, but still found it valuable viewing and particularly resonant because it parallels the war on terror through the chronicling of the war on drugs.
Because of the war on drugs and its zero-tolerance policy, the truth sometimes becomes buried because of the stigma that is attached to being an drug user.
Personally, I'm thrilled that "The House I Live In" got nominated -- not because I think it's a perfect movie but because its central argument, that the war on drugs is one of the most wasteful, destructive and generally asinine frauds ever perpetrated on the human race, needs to be heard by as many people as possible.
