16 June 2005
Letter From Tehran: In Washington's Cross-Hairs
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Norman Solomon
Washington keeps condemning Iran's government and making thinly veiled threats. But in Iran, many people are in the midst of challenging the country's rulers, in the streets and at the ballot box.

The June 17 election for...
16 June 2005
Juries and lynch mobs: What if Jackson had been on trial in Massachusetts?
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Alexander Cockburn
There's at least one man recently convicted of homosexual misconduct with a minor, now serving a 12 to 15-year sentence, who surely received news of Michael Jackson's acquittal with a sigh of envy at the quality of Jackson's defense team...
15 June 2005
Bush's high office appointments
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- Sometimes you look at the people Bush appoints to high public office and the only possible response is, "What were they thinking?"

Zalmay Khalilzad for U.S. ambassador to Iraq? Why not just send...
10 June 2005
Extraordinarily rancid justices
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Paul Loeb
As the Senate votes in Bush's long-filibustered nominees, the nuclear option compromise is looking more rancid than reasonable. The seven Democrats who helped broker the compromise pledged not to filibuster except in the most...
08 June 2005
Communicating Regional Sustainability
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David Swanson
Presentation on May 24, 2005, at the Second National Summit on Equitable Development, Social Justice, and Smart Growth, www.policylink.org, in Philadelphia, Penn.

It is with some...
08 June 2005
The Hyper Rich
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- David Cay Johnston, the invaluable New York Times reporter who specializes in our tax system, has come up with some staggering figures on what he calls "the hyper-rich," the wealthiest one-thousandth of the population, and...

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