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23 January 2011
Response to Fitrakis Vang Pao article #3
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Tou Vang
To: Dr. Bob Fitrakis, the editor of the freepress.

I want to complain to you about your article which has been posted by New York Time on Thursday 20th 2011 about Vang Pao was one of the world's most notorious drug dealers....
20 January 2011
Spiritual death
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Robert Koehler
The easy violence of empire washes over everything. It washes into our psyches.
I’m thinking about this in connection with the juxtaposition of anniversaries this week: Martin Luther King Day; President Eisenhower’s farewell address...
20 January 2011
A Time for Action -- Not Servility
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Jeff Cohen, Norman Solomon
While Washington pundits are talking up a new civility, many progressives are bracing for the old servility -- a bipartisanship that is servile to a corporate elite that is unquenchably greedy and more powerful than ever.

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17 January 2011
Following, not just commemorating, Dr. King – in Words. Deeds. Action…
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Jesse Jackson
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lived till he was just 39. He has been dead now longer than he lived.

Sadly, too many who never worked with, or even supported, Dr. King while he was alive and in the middle of the struggle, now...
15 January 2011
The paradox of disarmanent
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Robert Koehler
Will there be copycats?

Will parents let their children attend political rallies anymore? Will Congress ever come to our corner again?

We witness another impromptu festival of American violence, this one in front...
15 January 2011
What Eisenhower got wrong
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David Swanson
Fifty years ago this Monday, President Dwight Eisenhower gave a farewell address in which he famously warned of the dangers of influence on our government by the "military industrial complex." Our current Secretary of War, Robert Gates,...

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