AltWeeklies Wire
Cheated at the Ballot Box: Voter Suppression and the 2004 Election
New reports present an increasing number of allegations that some GOP workers are throwing out Democratic voter registration forms and using other tactics to suppress voter turnout in battleground states. First of two parts
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
10-15-2004 |
Politics
Those Who Invoke International Law Must Submit to It
Is the Iraq war legal? Does it matter? The UN Charter and the words of Kofi Annan reveal how wrong Bush is in his preemptive war policy.
Random Lengths News |
Jim Stanbery |
10-02-2004 |
Commentary
Much More Could Be Done to Clean Up Port Pollution, Study Says
A study released by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Coalition for Clean Air doesn't tout a single “magic bullet” for reducing pollution. “Harboring Pollution: Strategies to Clean Up U.S. Ports” takes a broad, multi-faceted approach.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
10-02-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Cover-Up: Bush's National Guard Service and the Story that CBS Missed
CBS may have gotten the wrong documents but the facts remain the same: Bush got preferential placement in the Texas National Guard and he didn't serve enough time.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
10-01-2004 |
Politics
Don't Think of an Elephant — A Donkey Kicks Back
Conservatives have spent the last 40 years developing and promoting their own set of issue frames, frames that have become so powerful through endless repetition that they make it extremely difficult to effectively disagree, author Lakoff argues. Liberals end up saying, “Don’t think of an elephant!” because they haven’t devoted similar resources to developing their own set of frames.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
09-10-2004 |
Nonfiction
To Everything There Is a Season
The use of religious language at the Republican National Convention was Orwellian.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
09-03-2004 |
Commentary
Misleading America — Kerry's Been Ahead Since April
The leading indicators show John Kerry has been in the lead in almost all of the battleground states since the Democratic National Convention but that's not what was reported.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
09-03-2004 |
Politics
Commission Omission: What's Missing From the 9/11 report
FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds says the 9/11 Commission report is seriously flawed and doesn't address serious intelligence issues that she addressed in her testimony to the commission.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
08-21-2004 |
Policy Issues
High Wattage: Legendary Bass Guitarist Mike Watt
Legendary bassist of the Minute Men, Mike Watt is interviewed in his hometown of San Pedro, Calif., in anticipation of his new album that has just been released.
Random Lengths News |
Dan Simon and Paul Rosenberg |
08-21-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Four Days In Boston: Connecting Local to National Politics
John Kerry gave prominent mention of port security, a key issue in Los Angeles, in his acceptance speech
Random Lengths News |
Frank O'Brien, National Correspondent |
08-05-2004 |
Politics
So Now It Begins Again
While the crowd cheered wildly for John F. Kerry, I was thinking to myself that this is the person who could fulfill the abrogated presidency of JFK, completing, as it were, his second term of office.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
08-05-2004 |
Commentary
Recovering America's Values from a Web of Lies
John Kerry has been talking a lot about values -- a key to a possible victory in November. But in doing so he's confronting a welter of myths, if not outright lies. The better he understands that,
the better his chances of success.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
07-20-2004 |
Commentary
Michael Moore Is Rubber, His Critics Are Glue
Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" is an indictment of the elite national media as much as the Bush Administration. That same media has, unsurprisingly, turned its guns against Moore.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg, Senior News Editor |
07-12-2004 |
Media
Tags: media
The Transforming Art of Michael Moore
For Moore, the real publicity bonanza is -- as it has been since 9/11 itself -- the knee-jerk attempts of ham-fisted powerbrokers to try to shut him up. Each attempt at censoring what he has to say has only made him stronger, and has made people all the more eager to know what’s so dangerous and forbidden.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
06-18-2004 |
Movies
Delusions of Power
U.S. censorship and American propaganda are leading the country in the wrong direction.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
06-15-2004 |
Commentary
