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11 February 2014
A Bug on the Windshield
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Robert C. Koehler
The young guys were half a block ahead of us. Nothing was happening except that they were walking. A police car pulled up behind them, slowed to their pace, aimed a spotlight at them.

They were African-American (did you guess...
10 February 2014
Is a policy a law? Is murder murder?
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David Swanson
From the Associated Press:
"An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, U.S. officials say, and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill him with a...
02 February 2014
They never announce when you prevent a war
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David Swanson
There exists, I suppose, some slight chance of this one making it into the State of the Union address, no doubt in a distorted, bellicose, and xenophobic disguise. Typically, there's no chance of any announcement at all.

We'...
30 January 2014
Austerity versus democracy: The British political elite erodes its own legitimacy with every cut
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Lawrence Richards
If you had taken a walk through central London on the night of November fifth last year, as I did, you would have seen signs that the hollowing out of Western democracy is reaching an advanced stage. Two very different protests were taking...
30 January 2014
Abolishing War, Resurrectiong Fallujah
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Robert C. Koehler
Iraq vet Ross Caputi’s film opens with a fleeting synopsis of the American heartbreak — and the bandage we tape across it.

His documentary, Fear Not the Path of Truth, is about the U.S. devastation of Fallujah, in which he...
29 January 2014
From Egypt to Afghanistan : Free woman, free world
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Sherif Samir, writing from Egypt
In the past year, during the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, when the darkness of fanatical Muslims beset Egypt, and when it seemed that the spirit of resistance was fading, and people were giving up, I was observing women, wondering how...

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