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30 December 2005
wounded knee...
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Michael Eckhardt
....today is the anniversary date of the wounded knee massacre of 1890 on pine ridge in south dakota. was sitting in the coffee shop this morning staring out to the still dark street....

indian people are still dying , just...
30 December 2005
Rumsfeld admits to "ghosting" detainee
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David Swanson
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has admitted that he "ghosted" a detainee, meaning that he made the decision to hold a prisoner without keeping any records of the fact. 

While prisoners of war can be theoretically...
30 December 2005
Journalists should expose secrets, not keep them
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Norman Solomon
Journalists should be in the business of providing timely information to the public. But some -- notably at the top rungs of the profession -- have become players in the power games of the nation’s capital. And more than a few seem glad to...
29 December 2005
A moral issue
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- 2006 makes the ninth year in a row the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $5.15 an hour. It's bad economics, it's bad policy, it's stupid, it's unfair, and it's high damn time to do something about it. It is also, as...
29 December 2005
A New York Times editorial contemplates Iraq
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Alexander Cockburn
These days, editorials barely matter. Few people outside the professional political classes bother to read them. It's a form of writing as dead as the dodo, so we should find a specimen that is still in decent enough condition to be...
28 December 2005
A man without a country
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David Swanson
Kurt Vonnegut, at age 82, has published over two dozen books.  His latest is called "A Man Without a Country."  It's a book that is brutally honest in its hopelessness, in fact – I think – overly hopeless, and yet humorous.  It may even be...

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