AltWeeklies Wire
Teach the Children Well
There has been a lot of public hand wringing lately over public school students choosing to walkout of classes in protest of the anti-immigration bill working its way through Congress.
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James Preston Allen |
03-31-2006 |
Commentary
Censure Will Save the Republic
The media is reporting that no Democrats are supporting Russ Feingold's resolution to censure Bush, but this simply isn't true.
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James Preston Allen |
03-16-2006 |
Commentary
Tags: domesticspying
Cheney’s Dodge
Dick Cheney surfaced on Feb. 15 long enough for an interview
with Fox News eminence Brit Hume, and the spin emerged from a timeworn bag of political tricks.
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Norman Solomon |
02-16-2006 |
Commentary
Bush and the Unspoken Message
When Bush is left unscripted, words come out so twisted you wonder if he puts his words in an Osterizer before pouring them out of his mouth.
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James Preston Allen |
02-02-2006 |
Commentary
Smothering King's Legacy
Conservatives praise the Kings as if their work stopped at integration, carefully ignoring King's profound challenge to the kind of budget priorities and militarism that hold sway today.
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Norman Solomon |
02-02-2006 |
Commentary
The Path of Democracy or Militarism
How different would America be if Martin Luther King, Jr. had not been shot down at the hands of an assassin?
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James Preston Allen |
01-19-2006 |
Commentary
Making Democracy Safe
As the latest and greatest excuse for going to war is to make Iraq safe for democracy,and as another political scandal befalls Washington’s insiders, the ghost of Mencken may still be asking, “is our democracy safe for the world?”
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James Preston Allen |
01-11-2006 |
Commentary
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.
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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.
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Norman Solomon |
12-22-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: George Bush, domestic spying
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.
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Norman Solomon |
12-20-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: yearinreview2005
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.
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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!
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James Preston Allen |
12-09-2005 |
Commentary
Scant Coverage of Air War in Iraq Debate
Public discussion assumes
that reducing the number of American troop in Iraq will mean a drop in
the Pentagon’s participation in the carnage. But it ain’t necessarily
so.
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Norman Solomon |
12-01-2005 |
Commentary
Hiding in Red China
It is curious that both the governor of California and President Bush went to China at exactly the same time and for likely the same reason. Both men were ducking scrutiny of their political setbacks.
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James Preston Allen |
11-28-2005 |
Commentary
Woodward Saga Has Become a Sad Story
More than 30 years after making history as half of the Washington
Post duo that broke open the Watergate scandal, Bob Woodward is in a
fight to save his reputation as a trustworthy journalist. Judging
from his recent appearance on CNN’s Larry King Live, it may be a
losing battle.
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Norman Solomon |
11-28-2005 |
Commentary
