AltWeeklies Wire
Urban Operationsnew
Since when did our way of life include 24-hour surveillance by Global Hawks and interdiction by soldiers?
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
12-07-2006 |
Commentary
Bush Whackednew
Bush is a much bigger threat to all of us than Saddam ever was or could be.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
10-13-2006 |
Commentary
Mirror, Mirrornew
Some express terror that lax immigration polices will undermine the American economy and cause a country that exports unequal trade treaties, carbon pollution, McDonald's and cluster bombs to the Third World to become a Third World country itself.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
10-09-2006 |
Commentary
Living Wage Scamnew
The Petaluma City Council is getting ready to pass a living wage ordinance -- there is only one problem: it is a sham.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
09-29-2006 |
Commentary
London Callingnew
Foreshadowing the philosophy that runs America today, Jack London noted in 1907 that businessmen have "resurrected the divine right of kings -- commercial kings, in their case."
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
09-28-2006 |
Commentary
Kid Notnew
Are we so desperate as a nation to forget about the hundreds of thousands of children we murder in Iraq that we gladly focus our attention on the pathetic Karr to escape the horror of our own deeds?
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
09-18-2006 |
Commentary
Station Losesnew
Most Californians now realize that we were hoodwinked when we amended the state constitution a few years back to allow impoverished Indian tribes to run card games, craps and slot machines on their balkanized reservations.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
09-05-2006 |
Commentary
The Bubblenew
The Capitol is teeming with flint-eyed recent college grads looking to make money, get laid and suck up some political power -- not necessarily in that order.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
08-14-2006 |
Commentary
Perfect Dealnew
The litany of war crimes we collectively commit grows each day that we continue to occupy the Middle East and beyond, but one place name stands out as particularly repellant to the people of the world: the interrogation complex at Guantanamo Bay.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
07-24-2006 |
Commentary
The Agendanew
Antonia Juhasz's The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time outlines how the administration is implementing an economic agenda using military force to remake Iraq.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
06-19-2006 |
Commentary
Tags: war in iraq, neoconservatives
Baby Killersnew
Our soldiers have become baby killers, not figuratively but literally, and government spokespeople downplay despicable murders as "overzealous" reaction to the death of a Marine.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
06-09-2006 |
Commentary
Tags: war in iraq, haditha
Discipline Nownew
Virtually killing independent preschools in California, Rob Reiner's Proposition 82 would institutionalize a system for manufacturing English-only constrained consumers and angry soldiers.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
06-02-2006 |
Commentary
Tags: 2006elect
Common Sensenew
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey was one of the first members of Congress to actively oppose the invasion of Iraq and the Patriot Act -- today, her forthright stands have been vindicated by a sea change in public opinion.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
05-26-2006 |
Commentary
Wrong Party?new
It appears that by running for the Democrats, Joe Nation has entered the wrong primary.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
05-15-2006 |
Commentary
Tags: 2006elect
Viva Roseland!new
Bush himself cannot call for criminalizing immigrants because many of his corporate backers rely on cheap immigrant labor to boost profits -- so his Congressional storm troopers are doing it.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
04-20-2006 |
Commentary
