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04 April 2007
The Martin Luther King you don't see on TV
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Norman Solomon
It's become a TV ritual: Every year on April 4, as Americans commemorate Martin Luther King's death, we get perfunctory network news reports about "the slain civil rights leader."

The remarkable thing about these reviews...
02 April 2007
While McCain walks in McNamara’s footsteps
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Norman Solomon
The media spectacle that John McCain made of himself in Baghdad on April 1 was yet another reprise of a ghastly ritual. Senator McCain expressed “very cautious optimism” and told reporters that the latest version of the U.S. war effort in...
30 March 2007
Veto this
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David Swanson
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is right to point Unitary Executive George W. Bush toward a copy of the Constitution.  The President (should Bush care to resume that legal role) is permitted to veto bills but not to write them.  In particular,...
30 March 2007
Symbolism and duct tape
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Robert Koehler
"The Army has yet to provide the family with a copy of the original narrative required by Army Regulation to support the award of the Silver Star."

The simplest truths bedevil chronic liars, even those with multibillion-dollar...
28 March 2007
How's the Progressive Caucus progressing?
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David Swanson
Seventy-one members of Congress, all Democrats, most House Members, two Senators, belong to the Congressional Progressive Caucus.  For a couple of years now, the CPC has had a staff person.  More recently it created a website...
26 March 2007
Let Rove lie
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David Swanson
I think Karl Rove should be permitted to testify to Congress in private, without taking any oath, and without any record being kept of what he says.  I had hoped we could avoid the indecency of having to spell out the reason why, but...

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