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Hip hop for Vieques tonight!
Prophets of Rage performs, house party-style...
Posted: Sat, Jun 15, 2002 2:03pm PDT
Fight the Gay Right
Why should progressives care about the queer community? Not just because it has long been part of the left, but because it may not always be. As homophobia becomes a less formative force--at least for the most fortunate gay people--all the old ways of thinking are up for grabs....
Posted: Fri, Jun 14, 2002 2:45pm PDT
Political Indoctrination at My Public High School
THERE IS A WAR GOING ON IN AMERICA--a war of ideology. It’s being waged at public schools like mine....
Posted: Thu, Jun 13, 2002 10:03pm PDT
This Whistle-Blower They Like
IN THEIR ENTHUSIASM to bash the Bush administration for its handling of the war – which Democrats consider an annoying distraction from the real business of government, which is redistributing income – the left has embraced FBI agent Coleen Rowley as a modern Joan of Arc....
Posted: Thu, Jun 13, 2002 4:12pm PDT
Today's Weather Forecast for Kabul
Here is a summary of weather in Kabul, Afghanistan. Happy trails!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 12, 2002 9:33am PDT
Help Palestine--Drink Caribou Coffee
Make every mocha count. Caribou Coffee is dedicated to ending the Occupation of Palestine....
Posted: Tue, Jun 11, 2002 4:39pm PDT
Suicide bomber hits restaurant near Tel Aviv
CNN Bombing in Israel...
Posted: Tue, Jun 11, 2002 12:01pm PDT
Human Rights Watch Report on Israel's Racist School System
In a June 7, 2002 press release, Human Rights Watch has issued an excellent report on the racist school system of Israel in which the Israeli government openly discriminates against the Arab children, who constitute about 25% of the schoolchildren of Israel. Call your favorite "liberal" Democrat-Republican, all of whom support Israel by definition, and ask them why they support blatant racism in Israel with our tax dollars, when they claim to be for equality here in the US (but our...
Posted: Mon, Jun 10, 2002 8:21pm PDT
Where is CSPAN? NOT at MAJOR 911 Press Conference TODAY!
Today. National Press Club DC. 2-5 pm MAJOR 911 Press Conference. CONTACT CSPAN, get 'em out there!
dceditor@c-span.org congress@c-span.org journal@c-span.org viewer@c-span.org events@c-span.org radio@c-span.org Main number: 202-737-3220 Assignment editor: 202-626-7965 (Rob Harleston) Assignment editor: 202-626-7965 (Ellen Schweiger) MAKE YOURSELF HEARD!!! It's not too late to MAKE THEM CHANGE THEIR POLICIES! Delayed coverage is better than none....
Posted: Mon, Jun 10, 2002 5:34pm PDT
Manufacturing dissent
Noam Chomsky calls the U.S. a terrorist state. Much of the world, it seems, is listening...
Posted: Mon, Jun 10, 2002 4:27pm PDT
The Left’s Acrobatic Logic on Terror
LAST WEEK, CNN’s Lou Dobbs sparked a controversy after calling for a 'War Against Islamists.' Stunned CNN viewers, accustomed to absurd levels of sensitivity towards radical Islam, registered irate complaints worldwide....
Posted: Mon, Jun 10, 2002 4:23pm PDT
Logic on Terrorism
LAST WEEK, CNN’s Lou Dobbs sparked a controversy after calling for a 'War Against Islamists.' Stunned CNN viewers, accustomed to absurd levels of sensitivity towards radical Islam, registered irate complaints worldwide....
Posted: Sun, Jun 9, 2002 10:28pm PDT
SKAKEL FAMILY DUMPED MICHAEL
NOT-SO-SMOOTH SAILING:
Convicted murderer Michael Skakel is now housed in a tiny cell, a long way from the life of privilege he enjoyed as a child....
Posted: Sun, Jun 9, 2002 10:04pm PDT
Homeland security can't coexist with bureaucratic security.
Shake It Up...
Posted: Sun, Jun 9, 2002 9:49pm PDT
Does the Death Penalty Discriminate?
MARYLAND GOVERNOR PARRIS GLENDENING recently joined an ever-growing list of public officials and social activists to question the manner in which the death penalty is administered to convicted murderers in the US. Upon learning that nine of Maryland’s thirteen current death-row inmates are black, Glendening expressed his concern about possible racial bias in the justice system and promptly suspended executions in his state....
Posted: Sun, Jun 9, 2002 12:59am PDT
Startled marines find Afghan men all made up to see them
"We were pretty shocked," Marine Fletcher said. "We discovered from the Afghan soldiers we had with us that a lot of men in this country have the same philosophy as ancient Greeks: ‘a woman for babies, a man for pleasure’."...
Posted: Sat, Jun 8, 2002 8:12pm PDT
Why Islam Hates Democracy
IN 1989, Iran’s Islamic tyrant Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa – a compulsory religious decree in Islam – that condemned Salman Rushdie to death. Rushdie had committed the crime of writing his book The Satanic Verses, which was, in Khomeini’s mind, slanderous to the Prophet Muhammad. In Islam, those who insult Allah or the Prophet are subject to the death penalty....
Posted: Sat, Jun 8, 2002 3:19am PDT
What is Antisemitism?
Michael Neumann is a professor of philosophy at Trent University in Ontario, Canada. He can be reached at: mneumann@trentu.ca...
Posted: Fri, Jun 7, 2002 7:46pm PDT