The Ventura Legacy The Ventura Legacy
$icapstyle, letter=>'"A' &>rguing with intelligence, a massive array of facts and a sly wit, Sifry claims that our two-party system is a 'duopoly' that decisively dictates nation...
Jun 27, 2002 / Micah L. Sifry
Bush Overplays the Terror Card Bush Overplays the Terror Card
Has the war on terrorism become the modern equivalent of the Roman Circus, drawing the people's attention away from the failures of those who rule them?
Jun 26, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer
Clarification Clarification
Readers of Andrew Sullivan's website may have noticed a series of items about my piece "Attack of the Homocons," which appeared in The Nation's July 1 issue.
Jun 25, 2002 / Richard Goldstein
Letters Letters
GOULD & SCIENCE FOR THE PEOPLE Cambridge, Mass. In his excellent June 17 piece on Stephen Jay Gould, John Nichols mentions the Science for the People mo...
Jun 20, 2002 / Our Readers
In Fact… In Fact…
FBI AND FREE SPEECH AT BERKELEY A timely reminder of the danger to civil liberties when the FBI targets dissidents comes in a riveting series of articles in the San Francisco Chronicle that describe J. Edgar Hoover's 1960s vendetta against the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley and its president, Clark Kerr. Information released under FOIA after a reporter's seventeen-year fight reveals the bureau plotted with the CIA to harass student protesters, gave false background information about Kerr to the White House and mounted a disinformation campaign against the school (see www.sfgate.com). BUSH AND FREE SPEECH AT OSU President Bush's June 14 speech on the "culture of service" at the Ohio State commencement was said by his flacks to have been inspired by Adam Smith, James Madison, Alexis de Tocqueville and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. OSU's civics lesson to grads was to tell them if they protested the President's talk they'd be arrested. When Bush arrived at the event, ten students rose and turned their backs; some were expelled by police. NOT IN OUR NAME A little-reported statement by prominent writers, actors and academics protests that the United States has "declared a war without limit and instituted stark new measures of repression." Titled "Not in Our Name," the statement enumerates US depredations against peace and human rights (see [email protected]). We reported on the founding of the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace (Brit Tzedek v'Shalom). The first meeting of the New York City chapter will be June 24, 7-9 pm, New School University, 66 West 12th Street ([email protected]).
Jun 20, 2002 / The Editors
DYNASTIES! DYNASTIES!
How their wealth and power threaten democracy
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Kevin Phillips
The Morass in the Middle East The Morass in the Middle East
The Morass in the Middle East Shreveport, La. Thanks to Richard Falk and The Nation for daring to defy the party line in the American media when it comes to Middl...
Jun 13, 2002 / Richard Falk and Our Readers
Anthrax and the Military Anthrax and the Military
The Pentagon's recent decision to limit anthrax vaccine shots to those at high risk does not address the fundamental objection to the shots, which is the lack of informed consent....
Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / Mary L. Cummings
Dialing for Clean Dollars Dialing for Clean Dollars
If a definition of news is something that hasn't happened before, readers of the New York Times may be excused for wondering why the paper featured a front-page story on June 8 on...
Jun 13, 2002 / The Editors
Fighting the Gay Right Fighting the Gay Right
They're here...they're queer...they're conservative!
Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / Richard Goldstein