Readers' Views

  • Kennesaw State University was put on alert when a larceny suspect escaped onto campus, but no one was looking for the real criminals. March 12, 2009

  • March 1 was the grand opening of Under the Hood, a G.I. coffeehouse a couple of blocks from one of the entrances to Fort Hood. March 12, 2009

  • At Hunter College, we were surprised to come across socialists who believe the movement to divest from Israel is counterproductive. March 12, 2009

  • The emergence of an increasingly vocal movement here in the U.S. against Israel’s apartheid has led to a full-scale counter-attack aimed at discrediting our side. March 12, 2009

  • An example of the need for a universal health care and a moratorium on foreclosures recently came to the doorstep of a home in a suburb of Cincinnati. March 10, 2009

  • The corporations and the rich have long thought of Maine as their playground, and the people who live and work there as quaint relics of the past. March 10, 2009

  • Despite their claims, the era of "big government" didn't actually end under the Republicans. March 5, 2009

  • Misconceptions about anarchism | Libertarian socialism, not lifestyle anarchism | All you need is love--and tax shelters | The contradictions of the Church | Bank of America and EFCA March 5, 2009

  • The race is on to see which group of state legislators can turn back the clock on women's rights first--by giving fertilized eggs the same rights as people. February 27, 2009

  • Tax the rich and make them pay | Fearing for my health | Prospects for rebuilding the left | An unfair portrayal of the Church | We need better nursing home care February 27, 2009

  • A 73-year-old grandmother and 100 supporters gathered in Queens to demand that homeowners get a shot at keeping their homes. February 20, 2009

  • A crowd of 500 people came out for a demonstration in midtown Manhattan to protest a racist cartoon in the New York Post. February 20, 2009

  • During the campaign before Israel's recent elections, the debate was over whether Israel inflicted enough destruction on Gaza. February 20, 2009

  • Marching together at Stella D'Oro | Fighting abuse of Muslims | What the Bund represented | Don’t put guns on Rhode Island campuses | Facing death for being undocumented February 20, 2009

  • The owner of Peanut Corp. of America knowingly sold contaminated peanuts, leading to a deadly salmonella outbreak. But he probably won't spend a day in jail. February 17, 2009

  • A prisoner on California's death row offers solidarity for Oscar Grant, who was killed by police at an Oakland BART station. February 17, 2009

  • Public education is under assault in California, where school budgets and teacher jobs are on the chopping block. February 17, 2009

  • In Britain, where solidarity for Gaza brought upwards of 150,000 people on to the streets in early January, the movement is continuing with Viva Palestina. February 12, 2009

  • The economic stimulus bill contains over $1 billion in funding for various prison initiatives that will only punish the poor. February 12, 2009

  • The murders of a Russian human rights lawyer and a left-wing journalist have inspired thousands of Russians to speak out. February 5, 2009

  • Authorities spying on Maryland anti-death penalty activists does not surprise me. It was commonly done in the past, and is done to this day. February 5, 2009

  • Like Joe Allen, I couldn't help thinking about the Israeli slaughter in Gaza as I watched the film Defiance. February 5, 2009

  • The U.S. militarily dominates the globe with the presence of hundreds of military bases--large and small--scattered throughout the world. January 30, 2009

  • Critics of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's apparent concessions to neoliberalism forget the pressures he was under. January 30, 2009

  • Prison killed my baby brother | We are the majority | An ideology that turns men into animals | Time to fire Donald Trump | Stopping the abuse on death row January 30, 2009