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Thomas Riggins, 09/27/2006
The free enterprise system, aka the free market, aka capitalism, is an economic system, as we all know, that is dedicated to maximizing profits at any cost.
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Sherwood Ross, 09/26/2006
According to the gospel of Matthew, it came to pass that Pontius Pilate said to Jesus, “Do you not hear all this evidence that is brought against you?” for even in those days of rudimentary justice a man had the right to hear the charges of his accusers.
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Scott Crutcher, 09/25/2006
"The media has been part and parcel of the propaganda machine that was cranked up five years ago on 9/11 and is still churning and well-oiled today," David Goodman told an audience of 400 at an WRFG fundraiser at the First Iconium Baptist Church, on Monday, September 18, 2006.
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David Swanson, 09/22/2006
We are sending missiles to Iran on a ship departing my home state of Virginia next week, and the water the ship will be passing through is warmer than it used to be, and there's more of it.
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The Guardian (Australia), 09/19/2006
The Bush administration last week put to Congress legislation that would give immunity from prosecution for war crimes to CIA operatives and others who engage in “tough” interrogations of prisoners.
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Ramzy Baroud, 09/18/2006
People imagine that their opinions are their own, not those of corporate moguls who compete to colonise the public sphere. We are not as free in thought as we think.
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Andrew Bard Schmookler, 09/18/2006
Dr. Andrew Bard Schmookler asks Tom Ridge, his old Harvard classmate, to speak out against the Bush administration. Ridge, the author writes, seemed an earnest young man rather than a sophisticated cynic. Now, Schmookler wants to know if he saw his old classmate correctly during their days at Quincy House.
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Sherwood Ross, 09/16/2006
FBI agents responsible for getting a confidant of Osama Bin Laden to betray Al Qaeda's innermost secrets say the Bush administration's rough interrogation tactics employed against other captives since 9/11 are the wrong approach.
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Joel Wendland, 09/14/2006
Despite his claim to support job creation in Michigan, Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos again has shown himself to be on the wrong side of the issue.
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Matthew Cardinale, 09/13/2006
US Rep. Steve Rothman (D-NJ) became the 38th Member of the US Congress officially listed as a supporter of H. Res. 635, a bill which could lead to recommendations to impeach President Bush.
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Scott Crutcher, 09/11/2006
President Bush was greeted by protesters this morning as he was in Atlanta at the Cobb Galleria Centre to flog his proposed legislation regarding military tribunals for terrorism suspects.
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Sherwood Ross, 09/11/2006
On the dry, brown prairie just a few miles west of Belle Fourche, (pronounced BELL-foosh,) South Dakota, a town that styles itself the geographic heart of America, you can pull your car off two-lane blacktop highway 212 and watch the antelope graze.
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Paul Jacobs, 09/06/2006
It is outrageous for any of the neocons in the Bush administration to call anybody a fascist without looking in the mirror first!
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Sherwood Ross, 09/04/2006
At least a score of high Bush Administration officials authorized, and hundreds of U.S. military and other government employees committed, crimes involving the torture of prisoners captured in the Middle East.
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Duwayne Escobedo, 09/02/2006
Have you ever heard of DRE's? It stands for Direct Recording Electronic voting systems, and Floridians are worried the 2000 elections debacle could be repeated again this year.
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Political Affairs, 08/31/2006
What you may not know about your congressional representative or Senator may shock and anger you.
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Joel Wendland, 08/29/2006
Over the last five years, there has been a new concentration of wealth in the hands of the few in the US. Meanwhile, middle and lower-income families have seen their already precarious financial solvency eroded by rising debt and stagnant wages.
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Dave Lindorff, 08/29/2006
A growing grassroots campaign is demanding the impeachment of President George W. Bush.
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Betty Clermont, 08/28/2006
Allan Burns, running against the powerful incumbent, US Rep. John Linder (R-GA), in Georgia's 7th Congressional District, knows he has an uphill battle.
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Lawrence Albright, 08/27/2006
Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) has gone on record as stating that the separation between church and state is "a lie." Harris gained notoriety when, as Florida's Secretary of State, her decisions resulted in awarding Florida's electoral votes to George W. Bush in November of 2000.
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