AltWeeklies Wire
Mao's Ghost: The Spirit of the Chairman Haunts the Olympicsnew
Americans should ask themselves, is it in our interests that China today holds $1.2 trillion in reserve assets alone, with billions more invested in US financial institutions and other businesses? And while we ponder that question, we should ask ourselves this: is it prudent for the federal government to spend like a drunken sailor with money borrowed from China?
Boston Phoenix |
Editorial |
08-07-2008 |
International
Mikhail Gorbachev Visits Floridanew
The former Soviet President was at the Hard Rock Live, a guest of the Seminole Indian Tribe. He addressed an audience that had come to see the former communist leader and Louis Vuitton pitchman cashing in on a trip to the land where the grotesqueries of capitalism are matched only by modern-day Russia.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Michael J. Mooney |
04-29-2008 |
International
Dirty Secretsnew
The government tried to put journalist John Powell in prison half a century ago for reporting that the US Army used germ warfare in Korea -- and he's still convinced it's true.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Robert Speer |
06-28-2006 |
International