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July 4, 2008

  • From triumph to torture

    Returning to his home in Gaza from a trip to Britain, Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer was seized by Israel's security services and brutalized.

  • Behind the Colombia hostage rescue

    Does anyone believe John McCain just happened to be visiting Colombia when the U.S.-backed military pulled off a high-profile hostage rescue?

  • Rising toll for U.S. in Afghanistan

    June was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the war began and the second straight month that the toll was higher than in Iraq.

  • Strike shuts down Seattle building sites

    A strike by 300 fire sprinkler installers has shut down construction at most large construction sites in Seattle and western Washington.

  • Exxon’s profits versus workers’ lives

    I was 12 years old when the Exxon Valdez tanker hit the Bligh Reef in 1989, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil in to Prince William Sound.

  • Who is preying on Generation Debt?

    Military recruiters not only visit campuses and hover around malls; they also descend on the prison population, which is disproportionately poor.

  • Views in brief

    Why are the real criminals free? | Privilege at the Columbia Secondary School | UTLA dues vote a good thing | Democrats’ record on Indonesia | Making sense of "voter apathy"

July 3, 2008

  • Exxon's legal guardians

    Corporate America is celebrating the Supreme Court decision in the Exxon Valdez case that shields the world's most profitable company against its victims.

  • Battered by two economic storms

    Workers are enduring a sharp cut in living standards caused by rising food and gas prices--while a credit crunch, caused by the housing crisis, drags on.

  • Munch's very real phantoms

    "The Scream," one of the world's best-known and widely reproduced painted images--is back on display at a museum in Norway.

  • Weapon of mass destruction

    The Incredible Hulk captures the amoral and villainous nature of the military's hierarchal food chain, while providing plenty of thrills.

  • Killings by Chicago cops stir anger

    A rash of police-involved shootings that has left five people dead in Chicago in the past two weeks sparked a small, but resolute, protest.

  • Houston protest against ICE raids

    The Houston immigrant rights community isn't allowing ICE to conduct raids on local workplaces without a response.

July 2, 2008

  • Obama's war room

    One major reason for Barack Obama's popularity is the belief that he's antiwar. But the men and women he's gathered around him as advisers are veteran war-makers.

  • The Feds' contempt for justice

    The federal government's never-ending persecution of Sami Al-Arian reached a new low when Al-Arian was charged with two counts of criminal contempt.

  • Conflict in Argentina's countryside

    An Argentine socialist explains the background to the conflict between big farmers and the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

  • Battle in the Long Beach teachers union

    Rank-and-filers in the Teachers Association of Long Beach scored a victory--only to have it taken away by the state union.

July 1, 2008

  • The sp(oil)s of war

    Western oil companies are putting the finishing touches on contracts that would allow them to operate in Iraq for the first time in more than three decades.

  • A deal after Mugabe’s election charade?

    A dictator's bloody re-election farce in Zimbabwe may be prelude to a power-sharing deal--brokered with the blessing of the "international community."

  • Stupid or racist or both?

    Don Imus has made another obnoxious bigoted comment, but he's trying to hang onto his job by claiming he's a misunderstood anti-racist.

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