Until Judith Miller's piece showed up on the front page of the
New York Times on April 22, I'd thought the distillation of disingenuous
U.S. press coverage of the invasion of Iraq came with the images of the
April 9 hauling down of Saddam...
21 April 2003
Ten days after Governor James A. Rhodes assumed office on January 14, 1963, a Cincinnati FBI agent wrote Director J. Edgar Hoover a memo stating: “At this moment he [Rhodes] is busier than a one-armed paper hanger . . . . Consequently, I...
20 April 2003
I nominate The New Yorker's Jeffrey Goldberg as the Remington of
our time, though without the artistic talent. Remington? Back in 1898,
William Randolph Hearst was trying to fan war fever between the United
States and Spain. He dispatched...
20 April 2003
As the U.S. spends tens of billions of dollars on a pre-emptive war
in the Persian Gulf, we demand that this money be spent on the real
global priority - the HIV/AIDS crisis.
AIDS is the greatest global threat to human...
AIDS is the greatest global threat to human...
20 April 2003
Congressman George Miller (D-CA, 7th District), a senior member on the House
of Representatives Education and Workforce Committee, along with 73 of his
colleagues has introduced “The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2003” (H.R. 965).
The...