I’ve had three small sets of numbers, one photograph, and one television showĀ running through my head all day. The first set of…
Good for Chicago – they did it. They passed a living wage ordinance requiring “big box” retailers like Wal-Mart and Target to…
Here is aĀ shortĀ pieceĀ I did for the excellent radical-democratic newsletter Dissident Voice: āA picture,ā the old saying goes, āis worth a thousand words.ā…
I suspect that a few ofĀ this blog's readers know that the University of Colorado at Boulder has informed the prolific left ethnic…
‘When we move from the who to the what, the blame is wide and the responsibility grows.’Ā These simple words, spoken by…
Someone should tell United States Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA) that Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Karl Rove, and the…
My fellow Americans, our Liar in Chief certainly gave Europe and the world an up-closeĀ look at the authoritarian idiocy that passes for…
In the spring of 1967, after he went public with his strong and principled opposition to the Vietnam War, Reverend Martin Luther…
Regarding the recent suicides at Guantanamo, here are three well-crafted letters to the editor in today’s New York Times: 1. To the…
At the risk of sounding overly melodramatic about something that probably strikes most ZNet readers as a rather trivial matter, I think…
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