Mar 29, 2003

Opinion

The national media echo chamber is not receptive to conscience. On television, the voices are usually loud and facile. People often seem to be shouting. In contrast, the human conscience is close to a whisper. Easily unheard.

Opinion



Carrying on anti-war activity in this very white, very conservative enclave in rural Penn’s Valley, Penn., is remarkably different from what I have experienced before – more than a decade of activism in Chicago, and two decades in Mississippi.

Opinion



I am not the president; instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

Opinion



George W is pushing his latest tax giveaway to the super-rich as an “economic stimulus.”

Well, I’d be “stimulated,” too, if I was going to get $16,000 out of the deal. That’s how much Bush himself would gain. Or how about Dick Cheney, who’d get $104,000 under this scam?

Statement



This statement was issued by the National Board of the Communist Party USA after hearing a report on affirmative action at its Jan. 30 meeting

Michael Moore put it all out there for the world to see on Oscar night.

Perhaps since the dawn of time, music has been a means of political expression. A recent song, “Traveling Soldier,” by one of country music’s newest and biggest stars, the Dixie Chicks, continues that tradition.

While U.S. war aims are couched in terms of “liberating” Iraq, the Bush administration is already divvying up the spoils of war.

LA HABANA (Prensa Latina) – Luego de afilarse las gastadas uñas con la escofina política del presidente estadounidense, George W. Bush, el primer ministro australiano, John Howard, realizó recientemente una visita a Indonesia, de donde salió por la puerta trasera.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malasia (Prensa Latina) – En una declaración de la cancillería malasia, difundida por la agencia de noticias oficial Bernama, el Movimiento de Países No Alineados (NOAL), integrado por 116 naciones en vías de desarrollo, critica a Estados Unidos y sus aliados de desarmar a Iraq por la fuerza.