27 July 2007
Of Marx, Christ, and the persecution of radicals: how will humanity survive the capitalist threat?
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Jason Miller
A few days ago, one of my closest friends hit me with a heavily loaded question.

“Are you a Communist?” she queried.

To which I replied:

I do not belong nor militate in any formal communist party in...
27 July 2007
Race is the tripwire for the progressive movement: John Conyers and impeachment
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Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr.
On July 23, Cindy Sheehan, Ray McGovern and I met with U.S. Rep. John Conyers about the issue of impeachment.  We delivered a petition for impeachment with one million American signatures.  While we met, 400 activists waited in the halls...
27 July 2007
Sausage making and electronic voting machines
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Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman
We've been long warned that foreign policy is like making sausage – you don't want to know the gory details. The same is true of electronic vote counting on the so-called e-voting machines, or DREs.

Earlier this month, the...
27 July 2007
Violence and American culture: the road to Abu Ghraib
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Alexander Cockburn
Three violent elements in American popular culture –- football, gangsta rap and dog fighting -- have intersected in the sensational case involving Michael Vick, the black football star. On July 17, a federal grand jury in the state of...
26 July 2007
Media spin on Iraq: we're leaving (sort of)
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Norman Solomon
In mid-July, a media advisory from “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” announced a new series of interviews on the PBS show that will address “what Iraq might look like when the U.S. military leaves.”

     A few days later, Time...
26 July 2007
Caged priest
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Robert Koehler
Probably few people this side of Gitmo are more profoundly outcast from society and human sympathy than convicted child molester priests. How tempting, then, to allow ourselves to feel a terrible spark of collective pride in our...

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