Seventeen years and three wars later, the ghosts of Operation Desert Storm — the cancers, the chronic headaches and dizziness, the fibromyalgia, the ALS and so much more that have stalked returning vets, whose medical claims have been...
25 November 2008
On Friday, columnist David Brooks informed readers that Barack
Obama’s picks “are not ideological.” The incoming president’s
key economic advisers “are moderate and thoughtful Democrats,”
while Hillary Clinton’s foreign-policy views “are...
22 November 2008
Nobody opines sagely anymore that the races will never get along, calmly ladling conventional certainties over the earnest idealism of civil-rights activists. But we live in a world so permeated with militarized fear of demagogic leaders...
16 November 2008
I think the peace movement and every justice movement in the United States should simply overwhelm Congress members during the next two months with one and only one demand: Pass the Employee Free Choice Act in January. This is, of course,...
13 November 2008
At the Charlottesville City Council's October 6th meeting, a group of
citizens organized by the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice,
urged the Council to take up at its November meeting a resolution
opposing a U.S. attack on...
13 November 2008
I hope it’s time, if nothing else, to retire cynical bumper stickers, such as: If elections could change anything, they’d be illegal.
The air remains thick with a sense of history and change, if not mandate. People are still...
The air remains thick with a sense of history and change, if not mandate. People are still...
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