07 April 2006
When war crimes are impossible
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Norman Solomon
Is President Bush guilty of war crimes?

To even ask the question is to go far beyond the boundaries of mainstream U.S. media.

A few weeks ago, when a class of seniors at Parsippany High School in New...
07 April 2006
If only they'd hissed Barack Obama
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Alexander Cockburn
What a contrast between the French demonstrations and the vast and exciting marches here against proposed immigration laws, as against the limp turnouts against the U.S. war on Iraq!

Across a few explosive weeks the...
07 April 2006
Closing the secret school
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Robert Koehler
Something was missing when Father Roy Bourgeois and several companions traveled through South America last month: fear.

Or rather, as he said it, almost reverently, "FEAR-R-R-R" - a big, lingering, life-shaping word, clotted...
06 April 2006
DeLay: "Stand firm" and see a cockfight
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- In general, I'm against kicking 'em when they're down ... unless really awful people are involved. I figured Tom DeLay is so awful, plenty of people would gang up on him and I could pass.

Imagine my...
04 April 2006
Global warming: get busy
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- On the premise that spring is too beautiful for a depressing topic like Iraq, I thought I'd take up a fun subject -- global warming.

Time magazine warns us to "Be Worried. Be Very Worried." On the...
04 April 2006
The death penalty lets Moussaoui off easy where a "scream screen" might inflict the ultimate just punishment
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Harvey Wasserman
Now that 9/11 defendant Zacarias Moussaoui has been cleared for the death penalty, the din will rise for his immediate execution.

But if he really is guilty, and is now seeking martyrdom, the death penalty goes too easy on him...

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