Analysis
Don’t let right-wing astroturfers scare Americans into silence
August 8, 2009Opinion ST. LOUIS — While a healthy, public debate around health care reform positively reinforces our proud democratic traditions, heckling, yelling, disrupting and even assaulting those you disagree with doesn't. But that's exactly what's happening here...
Read moreJapan peace movement: Moving toward a world without nuclear weapons
August 6, 2009Following is an article published on July 23 by the peace issues team of the Japanese Communist Party’s People’s Movement Commission regarding the 2009 World Conference against A and H Bombs, August 3-9 in Hiroshima and...
Read moreBeware: Astroturfing harmful to democracy
August 5, 2009Mob rule sweeps America, Big Insurance hires storm troopers Athletes complain about it. Astroturf causes injuries. And now the fake grass spread on many a field across the country has a new meaning. “Astroturfing” and “Astroturf...
Read moreHealth insurance companies send me birthday greetings so why I am nervous?
August 5, 2009I'm turning 65 soon and the only people who have sent me birthday greetings so far are private, for-profit health insurance companies. While I have yet to receive a single card from any friend or family...
Read moreThe ongoing danger of nuclear war
August 4, 2009Original source: History News Network This August, when hundreds of Hiroshima Day vigils and related antinuclear activities occur around the United States, many Americans will wonder at their relevance. After all, the nuclear danger that characterized...
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