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Dear Mr. Vonnegut,
The other day I was asked to do the now common act of taking off my shoes at the… more
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The People vs. Richard Perle
March should have been a triumphant month for Richard Perle. The former American Enterprise Institute fellow and assistant secretary… more
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The Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire
Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates. How many children, in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have hang-glided… more
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The Looking Glass War
All right. Let me see if I understand the logic of this correctly. We ignored the United Nations in… more
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To See or Not To See
The images we saw on TV last night ... were terrible. The whole city looked as if it were… more
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Kiss the Girls, Make Them Cry
You don’t have to be an embedded journalist to know we’re missing much of the good stuff on live… more
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The Road from Baghdad
The Bush team has big plans for the 21st century. Can the rest of the world stop them?
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Prime Time Payola
Is Clear Channel buying political favors with pro-war fanaticism?
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Backlash Against Al Jazeera
Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera has taken a beating for its efforts to show, in detail, the human toll… more
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Virtual War and Reality
The technology of smart-bomb war transports death and destruction to the virtual realm. With one hand on a joystick… more
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Imprisoned by the Patriot Act
While a few of those detained under the provisions of the October 2001 USA Patriot Act have been naturalized… more
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Halliburton’s Axis of Influence
Is Dick Cheney still on Halliburton’s payroll? Even though he supposedly sold off his assets when he moved to… more
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Eco-lateral Damage
Like the first Gulf War, this one is sure to be an environmental disaster
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The Un-American Media
There was a time you could safely assume that anyone calling skeptical coverage of the war in Iraq “un-American”… more
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Michael Moore Stars at Academy Awards
On day five of the war, it was supremely ironic that network television viewers had to tune into the… more
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Stranger than Fiction
A few days after her 24th birthday in April 1939, Billie Holiday wandered into the Commodore Music Shop, a… more
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Dear Mr. Vonnegut,
What on earth happened to American journalists so that they let fanatics toy with them? Andrés Hoyos, Bogota, Colombia… more
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Terrible Beauty
Helen M. Stummer has been called the Dorothea Lange of our time. As a chronicler of contemporary poverty, for… more
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Richard Perle: It Pays To Be the Prince of Darkness
Richard Perle is a busy guy these days, what with his long-desired war against Iraq in full swing, plus… more
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Remember Rachel Corrie
Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old senior at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, was killed by Israeli soldiers in the… more
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Plan B for the Peace Movement
Persistent protesters need to prepare for some unsettling possibilities
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Shock and Awe: How to Combat Awful War Coverage
Now that Team Bush has gotten its way and unilaterally launched an invasion of Iraq, those of us who… more
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Union Yes, War No
The AFL-CIO charts a new course for labor by opposing an attack on Iraq
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Catching Courage
For her work as co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the economic sanctions against the… more
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Today, Iraq. Tomorrow ... Democracy?
Much more is at stake in this war than the future of Saddam Hussein
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Spies Like Us
In its drive to sell the world on its plans for war with Iraq, the Bush administration has deployed… more
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Against All Odds
Before he married and became a father, my cousin was a gamblin’ man. A successful banker from Monday to… more
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After Miller-El, Mumia Abu-Jamal May Appeal
The Supreme Court’s Miller-El ruling could be a big break for Mumia Abu-Jamal, the black Philadelphia journalist on Pennsylvania’s… more
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Dream On
Freedom Dreams marks a significant intellectual turning point for Robin D. G. Kelley—“a kind of crossroads.” In the opening… more
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Pieces of Africa
He had awoken to a journalist’s dream assignment. In August 1998, British author and book critic Giles Foden journeyed… more
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Total Information Control
“Size of protest—it’s like deciding, well, I’m going to decide policy based upon a focus group,” said George W.… more
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