Stunning coincidence. The verdict in the long-running trial of Saddam Hussein in Iraq is now due two days before our congressional elections in November. Astounding. How ineffable.
Peace activists were arrested on the 26th on the west grounds of the United States Capitol. The event was organized by the Declaration of Peace, and the plan was to march around the Capitol and then proceed to protest in Senators' offices...
AUSTIN, Texas -- One reason despair is not an option is because things can always get worse, and then what'll we do? I was actually trying to figure that out when I came across a remarkable article written for the The Nation magazine (...
It's easy to delight in the Hastert/Foley meltdown, and how it's hit a
national nerve. Building on all the administration's abuses, failures, and
lies, the cover up of this out-of-control congressman may just give America
the inadvertent...
Tony Judt, the NYU professor and liberal writer for the New York Review of Books, has just discovered some of the consequences of publicly criticizing Israeli government policies, as he has been doing. Here's a message he released on Oct....
No one knows exactly how many Iraqi civilians have died from the
war’s violence since the invasion of their country. The new study from
public health researchers at Johns Hopkins University estimates that
the number of those deaths is...