Category: OpEds

By Sunsara Taylor, 7/13/06 After years of violently blockading abortion clinics, terrorizing women and doctors, and agitating for biblical rule, there is a smug sense of triumphalism coming from the pro-life organization…

By Larry Everest, Revolution newspaper # 53, 7/16/06 Seymour Hersh has written another revealing article (‘Last Stand(The military’s problem with the President’s Iran policy,’ The New Yorker, July 10, 2006) based on…

By Stanley Rogouski, 7/9/06  For anyone who supports an end to the war in Iraq, the Connecticut Senate debate between the pro-war incumbent Joseph Lieberman and his challenger Ned Lamont was painful…

By Elaine Brower, 7/7/06 Yesterday I was speaking with my son who is a Marine stationed in Fallujah. Every so often I am lucky enough to get a phone call, but the…

By Dave Meserve It is time for a New Declaration of Independence. Do you worry about the future that your children and grandchildren will inherit? Do you fear your government as it…

The Hamdan v. Rumsfeld Supreme Court decision may be a setback for the Bush agenda in the legal arena, but it does not mean that some mythical pendulum has swung society back…

Jamilah Hoffman, 6/30/06 We are living in weird times.  I feel this is more certain watching the fallout of The New York Times article that exposed the government‘s secret bank surveillance program….

By Ken Theisen, 6/30/06  On Monday, June 26, 2006 the President and Vice-President in a concerted effort launched political attacks on the New York Times and other media for their exposure of…

By Bob Burnett, CommonDreams.org, 6/29/06 Many progressives view the November mid-term elections as a referendum on the Presidency of George Bush and the ineptitude of his rubber-stamp Republican Congress. Voters have an…

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, CounterPunch.org, 6/28/06 What explains the gullibility of Americans, a gullibility that has mired the US in disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and which promises war with Iran,…