AltWeeklies Wire
Set Up to Failnew
Whenever anything bad happens in this country, it's all the liberals' fault.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brian Morton |
12-21-2005 |
Commentary
Free Love and Enterprise in San Francisconew
Peace and wow gets San Francisco an image to sell to tourists, but the threat of bogusness has always hung over the city's famed countercultures.
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.
Random Lengths News |
Norman Solomon |
12-20-2005 |
Commentary
Tags: yearinreview2005
When Is a Political Blogger a Journalist?new
In his blog, Fired Up! Missouri, true-blue Democrat Roy Temple takes potshots at Republicans. Some advocates of campaign finance reform are unhappy that the site was granted a press exemption by the Federal Election Commission.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
12-20-2005 |
Politics
A Haitian-American Candidate Runs for Congressnew
Dufirstson Neree, a 31-year-old Haitian immigrant, wants to represent a part of Miami that has the largest concentration of Haitian-born voters of any congressional district in the nation.
Miami New Times |
Josh Schonwald |
12-20-2005 |
Politics
Saving Californianew
Lenny Goldberg of the California Tax Reform Association has a plan to fix the state's economic woes.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
12-17-2005 |
Commentary
Bush Had No Choice on Torture Bannew
No matter what the president said, too much evidence had piled up that the United States was, in fact, engaging in torture,
The Village Voice |
Nat Hentoff |
12-16-2005 |
Politics
The Spying Gamenew
New York cops and civil libertarians have resumed their fight over political surveillance.
The Village Voice |
Jarrett Murphy |
12-16-2005 |
Politics
A Tree By Any Other Namenew
Gov. Sonny Perdue's press staff has been clear: The governor is a Christian with a Christmas tree, for Christ's sake! Any e-mails that suggest otherwise are bogus.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Coley Ward |
12-15-2005 |
Politics
Poli Psy: Burning Compassionnew
The coordinated, community response to a fire in rural Vermont leads the author to examine the role of emotion in policy making.
Seven Days |
Judith Levine |
12-15-2005 |
Commentary
The CIA's Torture Taxinew
A plane that appears to be used by the CIA to carry terrorism suspects to dungeons in far-off lands is linked to a mysterious company in Reno and a prominent Nevada politico.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
A.C. Thompson and Trevor Paglen |
12-14-2005 |
Politics
Burning Richmond's Race Cardnew
Facing a financial crisis and rising crime rates, Richmond, Calif., sets aside race as a factor in management.
East Bay Express |
Chris Thompson |
12-12-2005 |
Politics
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.
Random Lengths News |
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!
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
12-09-2005 |
Commentary
Backsliding USAnew
When are we finally going to learn to learn from history? Certainly not while "G. Dubya" -- or those funny monkey drawings of him -- are still around.
Dig Boston |
J. Bennett |
12-08-2005 |
Commentary
