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Front Page Last Updated: Aug 10th, 2007 - 00:56:21


Commentary
On terror
By Gaither Stewart

Terrorism is defined as a method of political struggle based on the systematic use of violence -- assassination, sabotage, kidnapping, and now human suicidal bombers -- practiced by political extremists or by secret organizations of a nationalistic nature.

Aug 7, 2007, 00:29

Commentary
Climbing off the real estate grid
By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

There was a time when a home was a place to live, a place where you raised your family, a place to grow your garden, plant your flowers and watch your fruit trees grow to full maturity so you could eat the fruit they would bear during their lifetime.

Aug 7, 2007, 00:27

Religion
Jonathan Falwell on the march
By Bill Berkowitz

The Rev. Jonathan Falwell appears to be picking up from where his father, the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, left off.

Aug 7, 2007, 00:25

Commentary
If you saw something, and said something, thanks!
By Jerry Mazza

In my article, If you see something, say something, which is the theme line for the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority�s advertising to get subway riders to keep a steady eye out for "terrorists" and lonely black bags with bombs in them, I gave you a rundown of what I saw, not just in New York, but around the world with the Bush gang. But there�s more.

Aug 6, 2007, 00:43

Analysis
Stock market meltdown . . . it's a bloodbath
By Mike Whitney

On Friday the Dow Jones took a 280-point nosedive on fears that that losses in the subprime market will spill over into the broader economy and cut into GDP.

Aug 6, 2007, 00:40

Commentary
How a falling bridge in Minnesota raised class consciousness throughout America
By Dennis Rahkonen

Establishment news networks have been effusive in lauding the quite remarkable and truly inspiring way in which first responders and ordinary citizens came quickly, selflessly to the aid of motorists trapped in the horrifying Minneapolis bridge collapse.

Aug 6, 2007, 00:38

Commentary
Alberto Gonzales and the coup against democracy
By Ramzy Baroud

The name of Alberto Gonzales is rapidly becoming synonymous with all that has gone wrong under the Bush administration. Repeated media discussions of the US attorney general in the most contentious tones have served to lay the blame for all the ailments that infected American democracy under Bush squarely on one man's shoulders.

Aug 6, 2007, 00:35

Religion
Damning and burning books, a theofascist tradition
By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.

The Dominionist Christian Right has been damning Harry Potter since the first book appeared. Rabid evangelicals have staged literary autos de f� for every new volume.

Aug 6, 2007, 00:33

Analysis
Antiwar voices aren�t necessarily pro-peace
By Bruce Tanosborn

In most countries that come to mind, there seems to be a very strong direct correlation between being antiwar and being pro-peace. Not in the United States.

Aug 3, 2007, 01:12

Analysis
Return of the robber barons
By Paul Craig Roberts

As the Bush Regime outfits B-2 stealth bombers with 30,000 pound monster "bunker buster" bombs for its coming attack on Iran, the US economy continues its 21st century decline. While profits soar for the armaments industry, the American people continue to take it on the chin.

Aug 3, 2007, 01:10

Analysis
A metallurgist�s insights into the Minneapolis bridge disaster
By Joel S. Hirschhorn

The incredible collapse of the Minneapolis bridge will send a message to the nation that has been repeatedly sent for decades, but to which our political system has refused to effectively respond. America�s physical, engineered infrastructure has been in desperate need for massive spending to repair and replace, but the multi-trillion-dollar cost has been rejected by local, state and federal politicians.

Aug 3, 2007, 01:07

Elections & Voting
The criminal cover-up of Ohio's stolen 2004 election sinks to the fraudulent, the absurd, the pathetic
By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

The illegal destruction of federally protected 2004 election materials by 56 of 88 Ohio counties has become a fraudulent "dog ate my homework" farce of absurd justifications and criminal cover-ups.

Aug 3, 2007, 01:01

Commentary
Converging interests in Iraq allow Bush an �Iranian option� -- Arabs threatened
By Nicola Nasser

Converging U.S.-Iran interests in Iraq are creating a common ground for an �Iranian option� for President George W. Bush that could be developed into an historical foreign policy breakthrough of the kind he has been yearning for in the Arab- Israeli conflict or India; however several factors are ruling out this window of opportunity, including his militarization of U.S. foreign policy, obsession with �regime changes� overseas, his insistence on exploiting to the maximum his country�s emergence as the only world superpower in the aftermath of the collapse of the former Soviet Union (USSR), an Iranian independent regional agenda that so far cold not be reconciled with his own, and a detrimental Arab feeling of insecurity of such a potentiality.

Aug 3, 2007, 00:58

Commentary
Un-American intimidation tactics shall not silence Muslims
By Ahmad Al-Akhras

In the short yet painful period of Senator Joseph McCarthy�s prominence, he accused people who disagreed with his views of being Communists and many were ostracized in society. People became afraid to challenge him, fearing for their reputations and livelihoods.

Aug 2, 2007, 02:05

Commentary
Why is Bush wooing the Arab world?
By Linda S. Heard

There's an old expression that goes "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts." which has its origins in Virgil's rendition of the Trojan horse legend. Another translation reads "Trust not their presents, not admit the horse."

Aug 2, 2007, 02:02

Special Reports
Rumsfeld helped Al Qaeda establish a stronghold in Northwestern Pakistan
By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky

The Bush administration is contemplating sending US Forces to Pakistan with a view to neutralizing Al Qaeda in its safe haven in the Northwestern region of Waziristan.

Aug 2, 2007, 01:48

Commentary
Phyllis Bennis and the post-modern antiwar movement
By Gabriele Zamparini

It�s official. Phyllis Bennis, the spokesperson of the US peace movement, stated, "the U.S. peace movement doesn't embrace the Iraqi resistance. Right."

Aug 2, 2007, 01:46

Elections & Voting
Will Bush cancel the 2008 election?
By Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis

It is time to think about the "unthinkable."

Aug 1, 2007, 01:11

Commentary
"Borat�s" rage masked as laughter
By Jerry Mazza

Two faces are at work in the political �mockumentary� Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. One is the British comedian/writer Sacha Baron Cohen, who is Jewish and also a graduate of Christ�s College at Cambridge. Then there�s the grinning idiot Cohen plays, the Kazakhstani journalist, Borat, who will set out from his squalid village, his prostitute sister whom he�s �inside of,� his stone-age neighbors, rapists, abortionists, dabblers in incest, to find out all about America, providing us with a bag of belly-turning laughs.

Aug 1, 2007, 01:08

Special Reports
Rolling Stone, Gourmet magazines blast factory farming
By Martha Rosenberg

It must be hard to be a factory farmer these days.

Aug 1, 2007, 01:05


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