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- Thursday, Nov 12, 2009
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- Friday, Mar 10, 2006
Commentary A brutal idiocy in the Vietnam War was the statement, "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." -
- Wednesday, Dec 21, 2005
Commentary A widely used form of DuPont's Teflon, suspected of being a carcinogen and creating organ damage in animals, is being studied by the Food and Drug Administration, according to abcnews.com, but the potential danger to human beings was known to a Du... -
- Wednesday, Nov 16, 2005
Commentary Whenever a politician pulls at our heartstrings, to be generous to the widows and orphans, to act in relief of the poor and the suffering ---- grab your wallet. If major events of the past and continuing appeals from the White House present an act... -
- Tuesday, Nov 30, 2004
Commentary You didn't have to see Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 to discover that the Bush family, senior and junior, have had a special relationship with the Saudis for along time (in the film Moore showed that the administration, when they had grounded al... -
- Thursday, Dec 04, 2003
Commentary There is an eerie similarity between Leo TolstoyÕs novel, War and Piece, which describes with considerable accuracy NapoleonÕs 1812 invasion of Russia and George BushÕs 2003 invasion of Iraq. -
- Tuesday, Apr 22, 2003
Commentary The last individual I would associate as tactical twins would be a merchant I once encountered in Tangier, Morocco years ago and President George W. Bush. Bargaining for an item, the merchant mentioned a ridiculously high price. I suggested half h... -
- Thursday, Feb 20, 2003
Commentary We live in a time of clashing cultures and a major mischief in a world where almost every culture aggressively propels its "fundamentalism." Whatever serves the group's purpose, physically, legally, morally, or in romantic fantasy, is justified as... -
- Thursday, Dec 26, 2002
Commentary "I have here in my hand, a list ...." Senator Joseph McCarthy, Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1946. -
- Saturday, Nov 09, 2002
Commentary From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman and beyond, it has been capitalist theology that the driving force of healthy and fairly distributed creation of national wealth is greed. There are nicer words for it, but that's the real meaning of our euphe... -
- Monday, Sep 23, 2002
Commentary The American public, already traumatized by the horrors of September 11, are periodically warned that another such act is on the way. Justified warnings, based on realistic knowledge, are necessary and appreciated. But there is a social cost in ra... -
- Friday, Jul 26, 2002
Commentary There is a famous Washington tableaux in the National Capitol. No, not George Washington crossing the Delaware. It is a repeated public ritual resulting in slight variations of the great classic of our time: seven corporate executives in 1994 stan... -
- Wednesday, Jul 24, 2002
ZNet Article There is a famous Washington tableaux in the National Capitol. No, not George Washington crossing the Delaware. It is a repeated public ritual resulting in slight variations of the great classic of our time: seven corporate executives in 1994 stan... -
- Sunday, Jun 09, 2002
Commentary If you have never heard of Vanuatu, or the economics of Andorra and Labuan, then you're one of us millions of ordinary citizens of the United States who, each year, pay a higher percentage of federal income tax revenues than is our true share. -
- Friday, Jun 29, 2001
Commentary Last year the Republicans tried to cast a wider and more punitive net over anyone who violated what they said were "classified secrets." It is a move that is either naive to the point of uneducable ignorance or it is cynical to the point of conte... -
- Tuesday, Apr 03, 2001
Commentary It can be the best of times or the worst of times, but whether in prosperity or recession, there is one constant in the United States economy--the richest country in the world has maintained a permanent class of Americans who are poor. That is not... - All Most Recent Content
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