Issue: 27
January 30, 2003
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Our readers seem to have made a collective resolution to write more letters to in the New Year. They have succeeded in creating a column that is chock-a-block with opinion and wit, well worth the visit. Last week’s lead commentary, “Condoleezza Rice: The Devil’s Handmaiden,” stirred a pot that we believe has long been too…
Our readers seem to have made a collective resolution to write more letters to in the New Year. They have succeeded in creating a column that…
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The Issues
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The anti-war coalition A.N.S.W.E.R. is rallying its African American troops, heavily represented on the speakers’ platform at the huge demonstration in Washington, January 18, but far less visible in the ranks. In an “Open Letter to the Black Community,” A.N.S.W.E.R.’s Black contingent encouraged community organizations to transform Black History Month into a Black Protest for…
The anti-war coalition A.N.S.W.E.R. is rallying its African American troops, heavily represented on the speakers' platform at the huge demonstration in Washington, January 18, but far…
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The Mother Of All War Shows
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When it comes, the U.S. assault on Iraq will explode as global spectacle, an awesome pyrotechnic display of rolling thunder and lightening death intended to shock and cow the entire planet. The effect, the planners fervently believe, will be comparable to that which occurred when cannon clashed with spears and arrows on the ever-expanding frontiers…
When it comes, the U.S. assault on Iraq will explode as global spectacle, an awesome pyrotechnic display of rolling thunder and lightening death intended to shock…
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Rumsfeld: Dead Soldiers Count for Nothing
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If the U.S. were a healthy parliamentary democracy, Donald Rumsfeld’s remarks of January 7 would have brought down George Bush’s government, necessitating new elections. Instead, the man with the demonic grin continues as the drum major for new foreign wars, even as he belittles a previous war’s dead. Conscript soldiers of years past added “no…
If the U.S. were a healthy parliamentary democracy, Donald Rumsfeld's remarks of January 7 would have brought down George Bush's government, necessitating new elections. Instead, the…
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