AltWeeklies Wire
Tortured Politicsnew
A new version of torture has arrived in the form of arguments and shrugs from Michael B. Mukasey over the use of waterboarding by U.S. interrogators, as he deflected questioning by a Senate panel considering his nomination as the new U.S. attorney general.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Editorial |
11-09-2007 |
Commentary
Arkansas: Are We Blue?new
Arkansans welcome immigrants, they favor legal abortion, they are growing increasingly comfortable with gay people and less comfortable with punishing them, and they favor Hillary Clinton for president. So then: Tell me again just how conservative Arkansas is.
Arkansas Times |
Max Brantley |
11-09-2007 |
Commentary
Hillary the Republican Presidentnew
A Clinton presidency would differ little from the GOP frontrunners.
Charleston City Paper |
Jack Hunter |
11-07-2007 |
Commentary
Feinstein's Torture Cave-Innew
If Dianne Feinstein can't stand up to this administration, she shouldn't be on the Judiciary Committee.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Editorial |
11-07-2007 |
Commentary
Is John Warner a Key to Averting War With Iran?new
While Warner is not opposing Kyl-Lieberman, he does not seem quite in concert with the Bush-Cheney program either.
C-Ville Weekly |
Alan Zimmerman |
11-07-2007 |
Commentary
Tags: Iran
Enough With the Spin Room -- How About a 'Fact Room'?new
At a time when this nation teeters on the edge of irreparable worldwide hatred, the last thing we need is an anesthetized, talking-point-driven public discourse delivered by proxy.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Brian Hickey |
11-06-2007 |
Commentary
King Rudynew
Come the first few months of 2008, if you're an old-fashioned American progressive in need of entertainment, you won't be able to beat listening all over the country for heads exploding across the aisle any time Rudy Giuliani wins a Republican primary.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
11-06-2007 |
Commentary
Tags: Rudy Giuliani
Hillary Clinton's Time-to-Make-the-Doughnuts Candidacy
Her vote to raise tensions with Iran prompts liberal supporters to reconsider.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
11-05-2007 |
Commentary
Campaign 2008's Mood-Swing Votesnew
Fed up with conventional candidates touting politics-as-usual, the public may well be ready to embrace innovative outsiders.
Boston Phoenix |
Steven Stark |
11-05-2007 |
Commentary
Clinton Global Initiative Summit: Promisepaloozanew
Action matches talk at the pricey but productive summit.
Pasadena Weekly |
Ellen Snortland |
11-05-2007 |
Commentary
Does the Bush Administration Have Cold Feet on Iran?new
We are told that Iran is supporting the anti-American insurgency in Iraq -- if they're that keen to attack Iran, why don't Bush and Cheney use the fact that Iranian artillery shells are falling on Kurdish villages in northern Iraq almost every day as a pretext for the attack?
NOW Magazine |
Gwynne Dyer |
11-05-2007 |
Commentary
Tags: Iran
Armenian Genocide Denial: An American Problemnew
If, as genocide scholars maintain, the final crime of genocide is denial, one gets the feeling that the Armenian genocide has not yet ended.
Artvoice |
Dimitri Anastasopolous |
11-02-2007 |
Commentary
Sanctions Don't Work In a Global Economynew
Other than substituting empty gestures for real action and appeasing domestic lobbies, I really don't see what good sanctions do. It's no longer 1945.
The Memphis Flyer |
Charley Reese |
11-02-2007 |
Commentary
Tags: Iran
No Mulligan for Mukaseynew
Senate Dems caught in a water hazard over torture.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
11-02-2007 |
Commentary
Jekyll and Mike Huckabeenew
Huckabee has either reinvented himself in the national campaign or else we underestimated his dexterity at the oldest political art, telling everyone what they want to hear and getting away with it.
Arkansas Times |
Ernest Dumas |
11-02-2007 |
Commentary
