Many days after the mass killings at Virginia Tech, grisly stories
about the tragedy still dominated front pages and cable television. News
of carnage on a vastly larger scale -- the war in Iraq -- ebbs and flows.
The overall coverage of...
21 April 2007
“We have morality on our side….”
---William Blum
---William Blum
Ironic words flowing from the pen of a man who has devoted forty years of his life to hard-core dissent against the United States, the most moral nation in the history of...
19 April 2007
The Democratic leadership in Congress wants the war to be around in 2008 so that a Democrat can win the White House by "opposing" the war. Congressman Rahm Emanuel has explained this to the Washington Post. The ONLY way to convince the...
19 April 2007
The news went straight to the Dad Zone of my heart and I thought about my 20-year-old daughter finishing up her junior year in St. Paul, Minn. I thought about book bags and attitude, tentative career plans and those uncomfortable plastic...
18 April 2007
With over 1400 local events, the April 14 National Day of Climate Action, www.StepItUp07.org, offered a national wakeup call, with citizens in every state raising their voice. But even as we build on...
16 April 2007
It is not election season. It is citizen activism season. The eternal election season is draining all sorts of energy away from our democracy. And it's not just the corporate media promoting it. Activist groups like Moveon.org are...
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