The $2 Trillion Nightmare
by Bob Herbert
We’ve been hearing a lot about “Saturday Night Live” and the fun it has been having with the presidential race. But hardly a whisper has been heard about a Congressional hearing in Washington last week on a topic that could have been drawn, in all its tragic monstrosity, from the theater of the absurd. |
Satire: Hillary's New Winning Strategy
by Steve Young
"It's pretty pathetic."-- Hillary Clinton, 3/3/08, describing her appearance on the Daily Show the day before the most important primary of her life."It's pretty pathetic."What an opening for a pundit to slam Senator Clinton. Except that they'd be slamming a great political maneuver. |
The War Election
by Norman Solomon
Maybe it sounded good when politicians, pundits and online fundraisers talked about American deaths as though they were the deaths that mattered most.Maybe it sounded good to taunt the Bush administration as a bunch of screw-ups who didn't know how to run a proper occupation. |
Half New Orleans Poor Permanently Displaced: Failure or Success?
by Bill Quigley
Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans before Katrina have not returned. Because of critical shortages in low cost housing, few now expect tens of thousands of poor and working people to ever be able to return home. |
Israeli Violence Endangers Us, Not the Presidential Candidates
by Ira Chernus
“Worst Israeli - Palestinian Clashes in a Year as Air and Ground Forces Enter Gaza,” the front-page headline in the Sunday (March 2) New York Times read. That makes the conflict sound like a roughly even match. You had to read down a few paragraphs and do some math before learning that the suffering is hugely one-sided. Palestinian deaths this week outnumbered Israeli deaths by about 30 to 1, and the count of serious injuries is even more lopsided. |
Stopping the Nuclear "Transformation"
by Peter G. Cohen
The National Nuclear Security Administration is much too modest. Its Complex Transformation is not only Complex, it is also unnecessary, premature, a costly waste of human and natural resources, and a stimulus to international weapons proliferation.The mission of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is "to provide the U.S. with safe, secure and reliable nuclear weapons and to maintain core competencies in nuclear weapons... The NNSA also has complementary missions in nuclear nonproliferation programs, excess fissile materials disposition, and provision of naval nuclear propulsion systems." |
Clinton v Obama - Hillary Most Qualified for the Job - Part I
by Evelyn Pringle
This election cannot be based on personal likeability. It matters not whether Barack Obama is a better speaker than Hillary Clinton or visa versa. Now is not the time or place for a popularity contest - the stakes are too high.This country is in the midst of the biggest downhill plunge of the 50 years and we need a President with a team of advisors ready to move into the White House with the most experience in every area of policy making the minute Bush leaves. |
Clinton Campaign Loathsome, Stale, Run By A Greedy, Squandering Slime
by Bill Gallagher
They've created a record of failure for the ages and the Republicans deserve to be pummeled for the mess they've brought upon a suffering nation. This election should be a referendum on that record and the Democrats should force them to defend it at every turn. |
Fareed Zakaria's "Expertise" and Elite Propaganda's Insulting Dishonesty
by David Sirota
Fareed Zakaria, as his Newsweek biography is happy to tell you, is a Very Important Person looked to as an "expert" on international issues. Somehow, he retains this billing despite advocating for the worst foreign policy disaster in a generation, hiding his dual role as simultaneous "journalist" and Bush administration adviser, insisting that the Iraq War is "over," and publishing fact-free columns like this week's on international trade. |
Once again The New York Times protects us from the news
by Case Wagenvoord
Some say the media is liberal; some say it’s corporate. The truth is, it's none of the above. Neither profit nor ideology drives the media. Anxiety is the real motivator. The media fears the possibility that a word, a phrase or a sentence might be construed as implying, suggesting, insinuating, or alluding to an opinion or value judgment that might offend our oligarchy. It has nothing to do with corporate ownership. The simple fact is that our media is as cowed by an increasingly authoritarian state as the rest of us. |
The Real Problem With Reverend Hagee
by Cenk Uygur
John McCain was warmly endorsed by Rev. Hagee this past week. McCain said he was "very honored" [1] and "very proud" of the endorsement.Reverend Hagee is a Class A kook. Stark raving mad. He believes someone will unite the whole world together and bring peace to everyone -- and that person is the Anti-Christ. Yeah, God forbid we should have peace. So, Hagee prefers war instead. |
Iraqi Refugees See No Reason, or Hope, For Return
by Maki al-Nazzal and Dahr Jamail
More Iraqis continue to flee their country than the numbers returning, despite official claims to the contrary.Thousands fleeing say security is as bad as ever, and that to return would be to accept death.0303 01“Return to Iraq?” asks 35-year-old Ahmed Alwan, an Iraqi engineer now working at a restaurant in Damascus. “There is no Iraq to return to, my friend. Iraq only exists in our dreams and memories.” |
Teacher Under Fire For Showing Gore Film Without Rebuttal
by Ben Fulton
When Mark Colley learned late last year that his daughter viewed “An Inconvenient Truth” during science class at Midvale Middle School without advance parental notice, he was intrigued. When he learned his daughter’s teacher allegedly presented no rebuttal to former Vice President Al Gore’s popular documentary film warning about the perils of climate change, he was stunned.0303 07“When you do that, you stop becoming a teacher and start becoming an advocate,” said Colley, who considers Gore’s movie “a political statement.” |
Giving You the Score, Plus a Whole Lot More
by Daniel LeDuc
The massive new scoreboard at Nationals Park is like a high-definition TV on steroids. And although that might not be the best word to associate with baseball these days, there is no getting around the size of this monster.Set for its first public viewing today, the screen is the equivalent of a 1,300-inch television -- more than five times as large as the scoreboard at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium. Other than the game on the field itself, it will be the centerpiece of the fan experience at the 41,000-seat ballpark. |
Israel Defiant As Gaza Toll Rises
by Ian Black
Israel was facing widespread international condemnation yesterday for its onslaught in Gaza, as the UN and EU demanded an end to a “disproportionate” response to Palestinian rocket attacks, which were also denounced. Israel’s prime minister, Ehud Olmert, rejected the criticism and vowed to press on with the offensive, which has claimed an estimated 100 Palestinian lives in the past five days.0303 02 |
