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      Op-Ed Department Articles from 2003    
  
  
  
              " The unpardonable Lenny Bruce " 
Dec 26 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Announcing the P.U.-litzer prizes for 2003 " 
Dec 23 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Down with "Happy Holidays!" " 
Dec 23 2003 
Alexander Cockburn 
  
          " How to kill Saddam " 
Dec 17 2003 
Alexander Cockburn 
  
          " Breakthrough and Peril for the Green Party " 
Dec 11 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Ho, Ho, Halliburton!  " 
Dec 09 2003 
Move on 
  
          " Dean and the Corporate Media Machine " 
Dec 05 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Freep Heroes " 
Dec 02 2003 
Free Press Staff 
  
          " Media Clash in Brazil: A Distant Mirror  " 
Nov 19 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Give Poverty-Stricken Cuba a Break " 
Nov 05 2003 
True Majority 
  
          " The steady theft of our name " 
Nov 05 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " More issues in the business section " 
Oct 26 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Gully-washing, frog strangling... " 
Oct 22 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Stupefying " 
Oct 20 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Brand Loyalty and the Absence of Remorse " 
Oct 18 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Bush-hater strikes again  " 
Oct 16 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Media Tips for the Next Recall  " 
Oct 10 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Outrage and irony " 
Oct 08 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Why did we invade Iraq? " 
Oct 07 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Siege Heil: the Nazi Nexus* " 
Oct 06 2003 
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman 
  
          " Seige Heil: The Bush-Rove-Schwarzenegger Nazi Nexus " 
Oct 06 2003 
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman 
  
          " Are you confused yet? " 
Oct 02 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Heart Versus Head; Finding Hope and Fighting Your Inner Wimp  " 
Oct 01 2003 
Rob Kall 
  
          "  Unmasking the Ugly 'Anti-American' " 
Oct 01 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Anyone but Bush " 
Sep 30 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Time to act " 
Sep 30 2003 
Paul Loeb  
  
          " 'Wesley & Me': A Real-Life Docudrama " 
Sep 25 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " George W. Bush's America " 
Sep 24 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " A terrible president  " 
Sep 23 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Freep Heroes " 
Sep 21 2003 
Free Press Staff 
  
          " The Full Ostrich on Iraq " 
Sep 18 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " The get-rich con: are media values better now? " 
Sep 18 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Triumph of the media mill " 
Sep 11 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " These people don't want to govern, they want to rule " 
Sep 10 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Sigh. " 
Sep 09 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " The Political Capital of 9/11 " 
Sep 08 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " The quagmire of denouncing a "quagmire" " 
Sep 05 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " I told you so again " 
Sep 04 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Lootocracy " 
Sep 02 2003 
Paul Loeb  
  
          " The Ten Commandments -- are they fair and balanced? " 
Aug 29 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Arnold: Politics as showbiz " 
Aug 26 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Weathervanes for the wrong direction " 
Aug 21 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " If Famous Journalists Became Honest Rappers " 
Aug 21 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " The All-American Blame Game! " 
Aug 19 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " News Flash: This is not a "Silly Season" " 
Aug 14 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Hang in there, Texas Eleven " 
Aug 13 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " National credulity fitness " 
Aug 11 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " NPR's ombudsman responds... and a debate on CNN " 
Aug 09 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Utter degradation of political discourse " 
Aug 07 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " One overwhelming impression: deception " 
Aug 05 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Freep Heroes " 
Aug 02 2003 
Free Press Staff 
  
          " Iraq: The peace from hell " 
Aug 01 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Tilting Democrats in the presidential race " 
Aug 01 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " It's not fair " 
Jul 31 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " The gang that couldn't talk straight " 
Jul 31 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Hope out of Quagmire: New peace movement opportunities " 
Jul 30 2003 
Paul Loeb  
  
          " More intelligence " 
Jul 29 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " The Other Great State " 
Jul 23 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Legal nonsense " 
Jul 21 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " War Boosters Unlikely to Voice Regret  " 
Jul 17 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " A stinging rebuke to the disgraceful level of journalism " 
Jul 14 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " A Call To Lock Arms  " 
Jul 07 2003 
Todd Huffman 
  
          " Recent Supreme Court action " 
Jun 30 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Visual images and how we see the world " 
Jun 30 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Global warming?  Just edit it out! " 
Jun 26 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Tilting Democrats in the Presidential race " 
Jun 26 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " The media politics of impeachment " 
Jun 20 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Iraqi gold rush " 
Jun 18 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " 'This perverse episode' " 
Jun 16 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Trust, war and terrorism " 
Jun 15 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Budget imbalance  " 
Jun 12 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Britain -- not quite a parallel media universe " 
Jun 12 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Psst, kids, <i>there's money in the wind</i> " 
Jun 10 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Like a bridge over troubled waters " 
Jun 05 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " 'Weapons of Mass Distortion' " 
Jun 02 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " The spamming of America: another brick in the wall " 
Jun 02 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Media ownership " 
May 28 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " The question remains: Why? " 
May 28 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " The Texas Legislature " 
May 27 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Decoding the media fixation on terrorism " 
May 22 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Democrats With <i>Cojones</i> " 
May 15 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Straight from the pit of hell " 
May 14 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Bush is a liar " 
May 08 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Introspective media not in the cards " 
May 08 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Plastic flamingos " 
May 06 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Texas law " 
May 01 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " A Different Approach for the 2004 Campaign  " 
May 01 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " What WMD 's? " 
Apr 29 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Another bad idea from the Republican Party " 
Apr 24 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Mark Twain Speaks to Us: 'I Am an Anti-Imperialist' " 
Apr 15 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " A leathal way to 'dispatch' the news " 
Apr 11 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Another big fight " 
Apr 08 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " The thick fog of war on American television " 
Apr 03 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " This is more than exciting " 
Apr 03 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Silence Remains Betrayal " 
Apr 02 2003 
Bob Fitrakis 
  
          " Democracy is the big loser in this war " 
Mar 27 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Media war: obsessed with tactics and technology " 
Mar 27 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Who's in the money now? " 
Mar 25 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " War in springtime " 
Mar 20 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Casualties of war -- first truth, then conscience " 
Mar 20 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " A plea to Laura Bush to assume the Presidency " 
Mar 19 2003 
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman 
  
          " Bidding on societal change " 
Mar 18 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Sick Caesar: Remove Bush from office " 
Mar 15 2003 
Bob Fitrakis 
  
          " Freep Heroes " 
Mar 14 2003 
Free Press Staff 
  
          " Bribery, blackmail and Bush " 
Mar 13 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " The conventional media wisdom of obedience " 
Mar 13 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Right and Wrong " 
Mar 11 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " American media dodging U.N. surveillance story " 
Mar 06 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Taxes and Texas " 
Mar 05 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Spying on the UN and other US antics " 
Mar 04 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Be it resolved: Blessed are the peacemakers " 
Mar 04 2003 
Bob Fitrakis 
  
          " Axis of evil boomerang " 
Feb 27 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Followup needed after Newsweek story on Iraqi weapons " 
Feb 27 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Bush has another plan " 
Feb 25 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Let's eat. " 
Feb 20 2003 
Michael Eckhardt 
  
          " Patriotic or Not? " 
Feb 20 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " "Globalization" and its malcontents " 
Feb 20 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Don't boycott the French! " 
Feb 18 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " What the hell is going on? " 
Feb 13 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Playing the "Terrorism" Card " 
Feb 13 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Of tax evasion and denials " 
Feb 11 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Conservatives in Action " 
Feb 08 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Colin Powell is flawless -- inside a media bubble " 
Feb 07 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Deficit at record high " 
Feb 05 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " State of the Union " 
Jan 29 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Campaign donations and the State of the Union " 
Jan 28 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Impeach Bush " 
Jan 26 2003 
Bob Fitrakis 
  
          " Decoding some top buzz words of 2002 " 
Jan 26 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Freep Heroes - January 2003 " 
Jan 26 2003 
Free Press Staff 
  
          " The Evil Q " 
Jan 23 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Memo: When war is a rush " 
Jan 21 2003 
Norman Solomon 
  
          " Health Care needs someone to care " 
Jan 20 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Appalling silence " 
Jan 16 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " The Ledge " 
Jan 15 2003 
Molly Ivins 
  
          " Fine Print " 
Jan 14 2003 
Molly Ivins