U.S.
Is GOP scheming to steal another election?
November 9, 2007Just weeks ago, a proposed ballot initiative by far-right Republicans with links to presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani seemed dead, after efforts to put it on California’s June primary ballot imploded amid secretive financial maneuvering by its...
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The inhumanity of partial truth
November 2, 2007There is a lot of truth to go around in this world. When you have a world of complexity, you also have, and need, many ways of looking at and understanding it. The problem comes when...
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The fires and the media beast
November 2, 2007As the smoke and ash settle out here in San Diego, a few things have become evident about the news in this age of disaster capitalism. One is the class nature of the corporate media beast....
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EDITORIAL: Reject Mukasey
November 2, 2007The Senate Judiciary Committee should reject President Bush’s nomination of Michael Mukasey for attorney general. The subversion of civil rights, civil liberties and the rule of law has been part and parcel of the Bush Justice...
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EDITORIAL: A mean and vicious veto
October 26, 2007Mean. Vicious. Those words describe the 154 Republicans and two Democrats in the House who voted Oct. 18 to sustain George W. Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The vote was 273-156,...
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