By Kenneth J. Theisen, 8/30/06 Last week, on August 23, 2006 Javed Iqbal of Staten Island, New York was arrested and charged with conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act…
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U.S. Broken
By Nick Egnatz, 8/30/06 A government which does not respond to the will of the people and which proceeds without internal accountability amongst its various branches is broken. After 230 years our…
Elvira Arellano’s Defiant Stand
By Alice Woodward, Revolution #58, 8/27/06 This past week, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, Mexican-born immigrant Elvira Arellano was ordered to report to the Department of Homeland Security in Chicago and turn herself…
“WATCH WHAT THEY SAY, WATCH WHAT THEY DO”:
THE BUSH REGIME’s CAMPAIGN TO SILENCE THE MEDIA By Kenneth J. Theisen, 8/25/06 The Bush regime has regularly attacked the media to silence exposure of its crimes. It fears the light of…
Protest Movements: Part I, Motti Ashkenazi and the Yom Kippur War
By Stanley Rogouski, 8/25/06 “The people have said their piece and no demonstration or rally will bring down the government”. -Moshe Dayan to Motti Askhenazi in 1974 Outside of the United States,…
No Exit
By Missy Comley Beattie, 8/23/06 I have a recurring nightmare. I’m watching a drama. George Bush is the production’s star, with Richard Cheney in the supporting role. Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld…
Women’s Equality Day: In Praise of Radical Women
By Lucinda Marshall, www.dissidentvoice.org, 8/24/06 Women’s Equality Day on August 26 is celebrated as a commemoration of the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. While most…
Why the Christian Right is Wrong
The Lyceum Lecture, August 6, 2006First Unitarian Church, Peterborough, NHby Dr. Robin Meyers, Pastor, Mayflower Congregational Church, Oklahoma City I am grateful for the high honor of this invitation, and find it…
Democrats Stifle Antiwar Voices, Again
By Joshua Frank, BrickBurner.org, 8/22/06 The Power of Corruption Ned Lamont’s win over Senator Joe Lieberman in Connecticut’s Democratic primary two weeks ago has been hailed by many as a victory for…
New Orleans a Year After Katrina
By Bill Quigley, 8/22/06 Bernice Mosely is 82 and lives alone in New Orleans in a shotgun double. On August 29, 2005, as Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, the levees constructed by…