Yearly Archives: 2007

War opponents return fireBy Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOctober 4, 2007 Brian McGough, a 31-year-old former Army staff sergeant who was wounded in a roadside attack in Iraq, knew he wouldn’t get a warm response from talk show … Continue reading →

All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Call Home: Black Ties and Bulldozers in New OrleansBy ANITA SINHA At last week’s annual Congressional Black Caucus conference, Louisiana Representative William Jefferson hosted a panel entitled “Recovery by Whom, for Whom?” Invited speaker … Continue reading →

At the Heart of Who We Are As a PeopleBy John Frohnmayer 10/03/07 “The Oregonian ” — – Suppose you hire a person to check groceries but, instead of doing so, he tells customers to put their items back on … Continue reading →

Loaded Language and Loaded Guns: The Meaning of OppositesBy Charles Sullivan 10/03/07 “ICH” — – -One can no longer understand US governmental policy on the basis of conventional language or traditional wisdom. Language itself and its long-established meanings were long … Continue reading →

Tomgram: Having a Carnage Party: We Count, They Don’tBy Tom Engelhardt Counting to Three At least Caesar was just commenting on reality when he wrote that “all Gaul is divided into three parts.” Last week, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Joe … Continue reading →

Different Bush, but it’s all the same gigantic rip-off. Welcome to the New World Order, sucker. We’ll be foreclosing in a couple of days. Privatizing, Outsourcing and Profits: Ripping Off Miami’s PoorBy ALAN FARAGO The outstanding investigative series by The … Continue reading →

Frank Talk from Defense Department Official: “I Hate All Iranians”By GARY LEUPP It ought to be political suicide. A Bush administration official (specifically, the Defense Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs) told a group of six members of the … Continue reading →

Che’s Posthumous Gift: Cuban Doctors Restore The Sight Of His Bolivian Executionerby Salim LamraniOctober 02, 2007, Rebelión Mario Terán, a retired former non-commissioned officer sadly famous for having executed the legendary guerrilla, Ernesto Che Guevara, on October 9, 1967, in … Continue reading →

Report Says Firm Sought to Cover Up Iraq ShootingsBy JOHN M. BRODERPublished: October 2, 2007 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 — Employees of Blackwater USA have engaged in nearly 200 shootings in Iraq since 2005, in a vast majority of cases firing … Continue reading →

Drowning in Mirrors: Political Science and Truth of ConsequencesBy NORMAN SOLOMON Contempt for the empirical that can’t be readily jiggered or spun is evident at the top of the executive branch in Washington. The country is mired in a discourse … Continue reading →

The Justice that Jena Demandsby Xochitl Bervera, October 01, 2007Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC) I want to tell you about Emmanuelle Narcisse. He was a tall, slim, handsome young man who was killed by a guard at … Continue reading →

The Rise of the Have-NotsBy Harold Meyerson The American middle class has toppled into a world of temporary employment, jobs without benefits, and retirement without security. 10/30/07 “American Prospect” — — Last week over lunch, a friend in his 30s … Continue reading →