Jan 24, 2004

It has been nearly two-and-a-half years since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, killed 2,976 people on American soil. Yet there are still many unanswered questions regarding the events leading up to those attacks.

Under the cover of darkness / The ‘electability’ factor

Opinion

A consensus is forming that progress in meeting human needs in our country is impossible as long as George W. Bush remains in the White House and the extremist Republicans control all three branches of government.

Opinion

On Oct. 10, 2003, George W. Bush gave a Rose Garden rundown of a hard-line position on Cuba made even harder. It’s election time, and the prevailing wisdom is that the president is currying favor with right-wing Cubans in Miami so that, if need be, Florida can once again be used to select a president.

Opinion

Now that President Bush has made his famous statement on how he is going to take care of the 8 to 12 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, the corporate media are emitting their usual blather and spin.

Opinion

One of the most enduring figures in American culture is the farmer as Rugged Individualist – sturdy, sunburned, standing proudly in fields among bounteous crops or herds.

Book Review

Bushwhacked: Life in
George W. Bush’s America
By Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
Random House, 2003
Hardcover, 347 pp., $24.95

Review

Addicted to War
By Joel Andreas
AK Press
Softcover, 64 pp., $8

Lucille Burman Flato died peacefully Jan. 7 in San Francisco, of complications from a massive stroke.