by Vit Wagner | Nov 16, 2002 | News
As far as Steve Earle can tell, there aren’t any quantifiable benefits or detriments to being a controversially outspoken musician.Back during the summer, when it was reported that Earle’s forthcoming album was to include a song about American Taliban...
by Bruce Childs | Nov 15, 2002 | News, President's perspective
President’s perspective The traditional bifurcation of domestic and foreign policy is redundant in the global era. The long-looming war with Iraq, the ongoing ‘war on terrorism’ and the Howard government’s propensity to exploit community fear...
by and was placed on the web by faculty at MIT., This open letter was originally written by faculty members at the University of Minnesota. It subsequently spread to other universities | Nov 12, 2002 | News
An open letter from the academic community opposing a US invasion of Iraq We the undersigned members of the academic community are opposed to an invasion of Iraq by the United States. The decision to start a war is perhaps the most significant decision the leaders of...
by Ilija Trojanow | Nov 8, 2002 | News
Bali Mon AmourIn the aftermath of the bomb attack on a disco in Kuta Beach, Bali, a number of journalists wrote about the loss of innocence in that exotic isle. They must have been overcome by another spasm of the historical myopia that afflicts the scribes of today....
by George Monbiot | Nov 7, 2002 | News
Do as we say, not as we doDemocracy in Brazil both won and lost last week. It won because, for the first time in its history, the nation chose a man of humble origins and radical views to be its president. It lost because that man is now forbidden to be radical. The...
by Judy Rebick | Oct 30, 2002 | News
Landslide Lula victoryLula said it best: “Hope won over fear.” In a decisive victory with a record 86 million votes cast, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party (PT) – known everywhere as Lula – became the President-elect of...
