Opinion

OPINION Ahmadinejad on the wrong side of history

July 22, 2009

To reach a correct judgment concerning recent developments in Iran and the self-styled re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, it is vital to view the whole picture: national and international. For some, otherwise objective, anti-imperialist forces outside...

COMMENTARY The health care crisis becomes personal

July 21, 2009

I had the recent misfortune to fracture my right ankle, having a little too much fun on it. It has impacted my mobility, reduced my hours at work, and not least of all, cast me into...

COMMENTARY The mentality of marginalization

July 19, 2009 By Sam Webb

Because of McCarthyism, the Cold War, the long economic expansion following WW II, and a resistence to think anew, the Left has been on the edges of politics for more than a half century. During this...

COMMENTARY Blood and oil in Central Asia

July 19, 2009

Original source: . Reposted by permission of the author. In the past month, two seemingly unrelated events have turned Central Asia into a potential flashpoint: an aggressively expanding North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and a nascent...

COMMENTARY Calif. budget crisis who should pay the bill?

July 19, 2009

WHITTIER, Calif. — California’s state budget is still being debated with continued threats of cuts and services to the most needed in our state. Here in California we all continue to be on pins and needles...