AltWeeklies Wire
Next Stop – Impeachment!
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, and our problem of late has been that this republic has been too frightened to be vigilant.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
12-22-2005 |
Commentary
Journalists Should Expose Secrets, Not Keep Them
The twin issues of government secrecy and
civil liberties have burst into flames. The big spark came when The
New York Times reported that domestic
spying by the National Security Agency has been going on for years on the orders of President Bush.
Random Lengths News |
Norman Solomon |
12-22-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: George Bush, domestic spying
The Bonfire of the Inanitiesnew
2005: there were procurement scandals, media scandals, emergency-preparedness scandals, even treason scandals. Seriously, could it have been any worse?
Boston Phoenix |
Barry Crimmins |
12-22-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: yearinreview2005
America’s Republican Problemnew
Like the good snake-oil salesman he is, Bush is betting he can continue to fool most of the people most of the time. But reality intrudes.
Boston Phoenix |
Boston Phoenix |
12-22-2005 |
Commentary
Happy Pagan Feast Day, Mr. O'Reillynew
Here's why the right chose the wrong side in the so-called "War on Christmas."
Sacramento News & Review |
Kel Munger |
12-21-2005 |
Commentary
Set Up to Failnew
Whenever anything bad happens in this country, it's all the liberals' fault.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
12-21-2005 |
Commentary
Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2005
Here are the 14th annual P.U.-litzer Prizes, awarded for the foulest
media performances of 2005.
Random Lengths News |
Norman Solomon |
12-20-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: yearinreview2005
Saving Californianew
Lenny Goldberg of the California Tax Reform Association has a plan to fix the state's economic woes.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
12-17-2005 |
Commentary
Poli Psy: Burning Compassionnew
The coordinated, community response to a fire in rural Vermont leads the author to examine the role of emotion in policy making.
Seven Days |
Judith Levine |
12-15-2005 |
Commentary
Making a Distinction Between 'Terrorists' and 'Insurgents'
Journalists are not supposed to participate in twisting words for
propaganda effect. Yet too many reporters for American news outlets
have allowed their work to slide in that direction.
Random Lengths News |
Norman Solomon |
12-09-2005 |
Commentary
When Free Speech Is Called Treason
What does it mean when the President's political surrogates start calling critics of the Iraq war traitors for speaking freely? If exercising our Constitutional rights of free speech is treason under these circumstances -- as some on the right maintain -- then let us all stand guilty!
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
12-09-2005 |
Commentary
Backsliding USAnew
When are we finally going to learn to learn from history? Certainly not while "G. Dubya" -- or those funny monkey drawings of him -- are still around.
Dig Boston |
J. Bennett |
12-08-2005 |
Commentary
Prisons of Darknessnew
The CIA leads the United States in "researching for the low moral ground" in the war against terrorism.
The Village Voice |
Nat Hentoff |
12-05-2005 |
Commentary
Bush Exposednew
Katrina exposed that the emperor had no clothes -- and now we have to deal with it.
Tucson Weekly |
Renee Downing |
12-01-2005 |
Commentary
The Defrauded Youngnew
To lie is to murder. That is the theme of Cindy Sheehan's defiant, witty, compassionate, and deeply patriotic first book, Not One More Mother's Child.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Rockwell |
12-01-2005 |
Commentary
