Analysis
Time for patriotism
October 24, 2003Opinion It was funny celebrating the Fourth of July this year and imagining what a U.S. solider might say when explaining to an Iraqi kid what the July 4th holiday is. “Well, it was when the...
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Keep the pressure on for peace and justice
October 24, 2003Opinion Because of the growing opposition to the Iraq war, the state of the U.S. economy and deep concerns about new threats to democratic rights, things are moving to the left.
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Edward Said: a voice for the voiceless
October 17, 2003Edward W. Said, who died Sept. 25, 2003, at the age of 67, was many things to many people. Depending on which newspaper’s obituary you read, Said was “a prominent figure in the debate over the...
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The destruction of life as we know it
October 17, 2003Opinion Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and prime ultra-reactionary advisor to the Bush administration, is also a head hatchet man. He believes that President Theodore Roosevelt ushered in an era of socialist government...
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Celebrating our history
October 17, 2003Opinion I learned to fly as an RAF cadet in Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe] during the war and vividly remember the way in which Britain obliterated the history of the people of the country that it then...
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