AltWeeklies Wire
Don't Panic: What's the Lowdown on Afghanistan's Upcoming Elections?new
Campaigning has officially begun for Afghanistan's first-ever free presidential election on Oct. 9. The duties of the Afghan president, as spelled out in the Afghan constitution ratified earlier this year, are similar to the duties of an American president, with a touch of European-style prime minister thrown in.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
09-15-2004 |
Commentary
Nuke Plant Proposal Fails to Raise Flagsnew
Chicago-based Exelon Corp. is seeking the first new construction permit for a nuclear power plant in the U.S. since the near-disaster at Three Mile Island 25 years ago, and terrorist concerns don't seem to be at issue.
Illinois Times |
Fletcher Farrar |
09-10-2004 |
Commentary
Ineffectual Protests Prove Times Have Changednew
In the conformist atmosphere of the late '50s and early '60s, the individual was a threat. But conformity looks a lot different now than it did then. Example: Outlandish dress is now for sale in 1,000 flavors, and absolutely no one is threatened by it.
New York Press |
Matt Taibbi |
09-08-2004 |
Commentary
Everyone Telling Artists to Shut Up, Just Shut Upnew
Musicians, actors, filmmakers and authors are Americans, too. It shouldn't be a surprise or an "intrusion" when an outspoken person speaks out.
OC Weekly |
Jim Washburn |
09-01-2004 |
Commentary
Man the Barricades: A Protester Remembers the Movementnew
Some things don't change. From the temporal podium of August 2004, I can view myself dimly, striding onto the University of Florida's Plaza of the Americas in 1970, leading a protest against the Vietnam War. This is the second of two parts
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
08-26-2004 |
Commentary
Watching the Olympics: Let the Mind Games Beginnew
The swimming guy was supposed to win eight medals? Jesus H. Christ, don’t fucking saddle this guy with unrealistic expectations, right?
Baltimore City Paper |
Joe MacLeod |
08-24-2004 |
Commentary
Protesters Stopped One War and Can Do It Againnew
As New York authorities and the Bush administration plot the crushing of dissent at the Republican National Convention later this month, John Sugg waxes nostalgic about the protest movement. This is the first of two parts.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
08-19-2004 |
Commentary
Schools Need Courageous Politicsnew
Illinois public schools need more money. Raising it requires a politician brave enough to take a traditionally unpopular position: The burden for education funding must be shifted from property to income tax.
Illinois Times |
Fletcher Farrar |
08-12-2004 |
Commentary
Honk If You Love Honkingnew
Bumper stickers are the very banners of Passive-Agressive Nation.
Metroland |
John Rodat |
08-12-2004 |
Commentary
High-Tech Military Gigs Are All the Rage Againnew
Back in the Reagan era, the tens of thousands of engineers who got sucked into corporations with big military contracts called it "the defense industry," but today's police-state teenyboppers are calling it "the security industry."
Metro Silicon Valley |
Annalee Newitz |
08-07-2004 |
Commentary
Let's Avoid Indiscriminate Retaliation for Attack on U.S.new
Let's not commit the same monstrous crime that the terrorists committed, in negating human life, in pursuit of a lifeless ideal.
The Athens NEWS |
Terry Smith |
08-07-2004 |
Commentary
Haiku News Writer Tells All in Seventeen Syllablesnew
For those with little time to read a newspaper, NUVO's managing editor summarizes the news in haiku like this one: we have been assured/by Diebold that every/GOP vote counts.
NUVO |
Jim Poyser |
08-07-2004 |
Commentary
Alleged Lies Could Have Led to Martha Stewart's Convictionnew
It seemed so obvious that the arguments Martha Stewart's attorney submitted to the court to have her conviction overturned would be granted: an obviously biased juror who lied to get on the jury, and an ink expert who made Stewart look like a liar when he in fact was the liar. But they weren't.
Long Island Press |
Amy Fisher |
08-03-2004 |
Commentary
Can You Be a Little More Precise?new
What do we really mean when we say somewhere is a "bad" neighborhood?
Metroland |
Miriam Axel-Lute |
07-29-2004 |
Commentary
Going to the Chapelnew
Looking in at traditional marriage from the guest's seat
Metroland |
John Rodat |
07-29-2004 |
Commentary
