Opinion

Coretta Scott King

February 3, 2006

The grainy black and white television footage and still photographs capture only a snippet of the struggle of millions symbolized by the First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement, Coretta Scott King. A political thinker and...

Oprah takes Bush to woodshed. Rips president over WMD fibs

February 3, 2006

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey’s vengeful side was very much on display as she used her popular TV program to take President George W. Bush to the woodshed over falsehoods about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass...

Taxing the oil companies hot air

February 3, 2006 By Mark Weisbrot And Dean Baker

Last October 12 U.S. Senators sent a letter to nine major oil companies, asking them to donate part of their record profits to help poor Americans faced with large increases in their heating oil costs this...

U.S. helps terrorists thrive in Miami

January 27, 2006

Commentary Gerardo Hernández, one of the imprisoned anti-terrorist Cuban Five, sends a cartoon that he drew depicting a wall around the United States. Not everybody can get in. A sign says, “Anti-Cuba terrorists only.” Anti-Cuba terrorist...

No pension? No health care? No retirement?

January 27, 2006

For everybody who isn’t asleep, it’s obvious that American employers intend to destroy all hope of “golden years” retirement. They intend to work us until we die. The latest nail being driven into our collective coffin...