AltWeeklies Wire
Gaza = Warsaw?: Americans Should Unite to Stop Israel's Shoahnew
The shoah that the Israelis have brought to Gaza is being carried out with our phosphorus bombs, our DIME fusion bombs and our high-tech rocketry purchased with our $3 billion a year in foreign aid.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
01-23-2009 |
Commentary
De Palma's 'Redacted' Indicts All of Usnew
To date, only 28 movie theaters in the country have shown the astonishingly apropos Redacted, which puts the blame for al-Mahmudiyah not on a few renegade soldiers, but where it belongs: on the American people.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
12-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Brian De Palma, Redacted
Later Alligators!new
I am going on an extended leave of absence from writing this column -- I have to go off and write a book, and I cannot chew gum, do the column and write the book all at the same time.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
11-02-2007 |
Commentary
Problems = Solutionsnew
On permaculture and uxorious pleasures.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
10-24-2007 |
Commentary
Station Casinos & the Rohnert Park Casino -- What Stinks?new
Professor Greg Sarris has been very forthcoming about how his tribe funded his university chair but there's lots about the proposed casino that never gets spoken of.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
10-15-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Fish Wrapnew
Publisher Bruce Kyses is working hard to blur the line between news and advertising.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
09-24-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
The Forgotten Iraqisnew
If remorseful vets want to make reparations for the evil that they -- and we collectively -- have done to Iraq, they and we must actively and loudly oppose the war, not retreat into farms and "nonpolitical" silence.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
09-07-2007 |
Commentary
Harry Potter's Politics Revisitednew
In a recent column, to the dismay of some of my dearest readers, I disparaged the elitist worldview of Harry Potter's creator, J. K. Rowling -- please allow me to elaborate.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
08-31-2007 |
Commentary
Muggles, Arise!new
The Potter ethical universe contains no socially redeeming value beyond fighting a psychopathic wizard -- personifying Voldemort as an inchoate "evil" conveniently allows readers to sidestep their duty to specify the true source of human oppression and end it.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
08-17-2007 |
Books
Tags: Harry Potter, Hugh Everett
Why The Nation Killed My Storynew
After The Nation's nonprofit investigative fund bankrolled my investigation of Dianne Feinstein, it was headed for the magazine's cover -- until Katrina vanden Heuvel spiked it.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
08-13-2007 |
Commentary
The United States Institute of Peace Facilitates Warnew
The institute is a congressionally funded (to the tune of $23 million a year) think tank staffed by neoconservative "thinkers" who supported the seizure of Iraq's oil fields and are now swiveling their sights toward Iran.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
07-09-2007 |
Politics
Tags: war in iraq, Iran
Fiscal Terrorismnew
The last thing that the air-brushed presidential candidates want to talk about is the skyrocketing national debt or the looming bankruptcy of credit card holders -- that's a big problem.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
06-29-2007 |
Commentary
Small-town Papers Duke it Outnew
Point Reyes, Calif., is perhaps the smallest two-paper town in America.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
06-21-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
White Boys Eatnew
While it is not surprising that the toothy duo use the same brand of sugary tooth-whitener, it takes genuine white-boy balls to pass off corporate product placement as diplomatic banter.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
06-19-2007 |
Commentary
The Right to Witnessnew
Watching the cops to help save lives.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
06-01-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
