Dennis Loo

Sometimes asking for the impossible is the only realistic path

Dennis Loo

Dennis Loo
Location
Los Angeles, California,
Birthday
December 31
Title
Professor of Sociology
Company
Cal Poly Pomona
Bio
Author of Globalization and the Demolition of Society; Co-Editor/Author of Impeach the President: the Case Against Bush and Cheney, World Can't Wait Steering Committee Member, co-author of "Crimes Are Crimes, No Matter Who Does Them" statement, dog and fruit tree lover. Published poet. Winner of the Alfred R. Lindesmith Award, Project Censored Award and the Nation Magazine's Most Valuable Campaign Award. Punahou and Harvard Honor Graduate. Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Santa Cruz. An archive of close to 500 postings of mine can be found at my blogspot blog, Dennis Loo, link below. I publish regularly at dennisloo.com, worldcantwait.net (link below) and also at OpEd News and sometimes at Counterpunch.

Editor’s Pick
JANUARY 15, 2010 1:37AM

Security Failures and the Myth of Omniscience

We want to be able to search everything, so we could see if Mohammed Atta ever got a parking ticket in Roselle. You can’t connect the dots if you can’t see them. -- Richard Kelly, New Jersey Regional Operations Intelligence Center’s Director

[E]ach day [the NSA] collects four tRead full post »

Editor’s Pick
JUNE 20, 2009 3:45PM

Torture's Ok, But Simulating Torture - We'll Arrest You

David Swanson's newest article is up at World Can't Wait. It's entitled: "US Government Threatens to Prosecute Waterboarding."

An exciting development for those of us who have been waiting anxiously for precisely that headline.

Except that the waterboarding that our government is threatening to… Read full post »

Editor’s Pick
APRIL 21, 2009 5:54PM

Update on Why Obama Released the Torture Memos

This is a follow-up on my last posting. Today's NY Times reports that the Obama administration is experiencing growing pressure to investigate and prosecute the torturers of the Bush years:

"In the end, aides said, Mr. Obama opted to disclose the memos because his lawyers worried that theyRead full post »

Editor’s Pick
MARCH 9, 2009 10:12AM

Set Michael Brown a Pick So He Can Leave Cleveland

Michael Brown is the NBA Cleveland Cavalier's Head Coach. He gets to coach LeBron James, one of the two best players in the game. Brown's strategy appears to be: Give LeBron the ball and let him dribble around and try to create a shot for himself.

Because Brown doesn't seem to have anything… Read full post »