By Robert Scheer Once again the gods of war have united our Congress like nothing else. Unable to agree on the minimal spending necessary to save our economy, schools, medical system or infrastructure, the cowards who mislead us have retreated to the irrationalities of what George Washington in his farewell address condemned as...
By Steve Klinger As we sit in our warm and dry homes on this late October night, when the first winter storm bears down upon New Mexico, bringing freezing rain and snow to many of our communities, our thoughts turn to our friends in the Occupy movement. Tonight, they are huddled in sleeping bags,...
By Thomas Wark From Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park, from the Arab Spring to the American Autumn, the common man is aroused. In what even the skeptic Chris Hedges hopes will become a movement too big to fail, the common man is speaking out against his oppressors. He has, Hedges observed, “nothing as...
By Steve Klinger When the protesters are streaked with gray, they say they’re too old to be taken seriously. When they wave signs for peace, they’re called naïve or treasonous. And now that the left, for the first time since the Vietnam generation, has significant numbers of young people “occupying” Wall Street and its...
By Steve Klinger Tonight I am ashamed for my country. Tonight I am ashamed for my species. Tonight my heart is heavy with the disappointment of having to accept one more unhappy ending and the totally gratuitous taking of a human life in yet another American miscarriage of justice. Tonight Troy Davis is dead,...
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