This article was co-written with Jeff Cohen
The U.S.-centric nature of American politics often affects the U.S. left. It's hard to get out of USA mindsets long enough to grasp the global implications of decisions made here at...
13 August 2004
We saw butterflies turning into bombers. And we weren't dreaming. At
the time when the Woodstock festival became an instant media legend in
mid-August 1969, melodic yearning for peace was up against the cold steel
of American war machinery...
09 August 2004
The same broadcast networks that eagerly devote endless prime-time
hours to vacuous sitcoms and unreal "reality shows" couldn't spare a total
of more than a few hours last week for live coverage of the Democratic
National Convention....
31 July 2004
No, hope does not gallop in like Paul Revere. And it certainly doesn't
arrive breathless from a corporate party convention.
Movements for peace and social justice can bring realistic hope -- not with rhetoric but...
Movements for peace and social justice can bring realistic hope -- not with rhetoric but...
30 July 2004
This week the Democratic Party successfully launched a great ship of hope
from Boston harbor. And while the winds of change that would guide it grow
mightier, it is by no means certain that it will reach its destination
come this...
28 July 2004
If Kerry is a "flip-flopper" because he won't end the war (or the "Patriot
Act" or NAFTA or private health insurance) even as he speaks against these
horrors, what do we have to call Kucinich, who insists on ending these
things even as...
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