“Are you worried?” a friend asked the other day. You bet I am. We’re nine weeks away from the presidential election, and Kerry and Bush are still in a virtual tie in the polls. Bush continues to swat away the bad news as if it’s no more concern than a mosquito. And Kerry can’t seem […]
Iraq
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Bush, Rumsfeld, and ‘the values of our nation’
Headline in the Democrat and Chronicle on May 3: “Abuse of Iraqis Called Isolated.” Statement by President Bush May 5: “The abuse does not represent the America that I know.” Statement by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on May 7: “It was inconsistent with the values of our nation.” Many Americans, no doubt, […]
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Reader feedback 4.21.04
Praise for Spula With City Newspaper’s firing of Jack Bradigan Spula the city’s strongest voice of conscience has been lost. We’ve learned so much from him. His research is impressive, his reasoning fresh and true; and his absolute integrity cannot be compromised. With Bradigan Spula, City has provided the only real forum on progressive […]
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Bad days ahead
The following article was commissioned by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and is being published this week in print and online by City and many other alternative papers throughout the United States. Based on a memo from a US official who has worked in Iraq, the article was written by Jason Vest, a senior correspondent […]
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Bush’s war
The 9/11 Commission’s hearings are providing great drama. And yes, we need to find out whether the Bush administration — or the Clinton administration — could have prevented that tragedy. But that investigation must not distract us from another key issue: the shoddy evidence and dreadful decision-making that led us into our war against […]
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The threat to America
This year’s presidential election will be one of the most important in the nation’s history. Voters will decide whether to re-elect a man whose policies are destroying much of what the nation stands for, are alienating other nations of the world, and are fueling terrorism. Many Americans — perhaps most — continue to support […]
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Say what?
Bound for Iraq with a seven-person peace delegation, 21-year-old Khury Petersen-Smith was waiting for a connector flight in Amsterdam. He spied a half dozen Americans in the airport, all headed for Iraq, and all wearing the “KBR” logo. He knew that stands for Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root, a friend of people in […]
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Reader feedback 12.10.03
Panning the bus station, Jan Wong; debating the
war
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Reader feedback 11.19.03
The Johnson defeat, ‘pseudo-feminist’ Popick, Iraq and abortion
