Category: Culture
The People’s Case for Impeaching Bush
by Elizabeth Holtzman | Nov 15, 2006 | Books, PoliticsEditor’s note: With their party back in power for the first time since 1994, some senior House Democrats who will be rising to committee chairmanships are already planning to conduct investigations into wrongdoings of the Bush administration in everything thing from fraud and abuse in Iraq War contracting to illegal domestic surveillance and detainee interrogations. […]
Electoral Fraud: A Reading List
by WS Editors | Oct 15, 2006 | Books, PoliticsBooks, Articles, Letters Conyers, John, et al. What Went Wrong in Ohio: The Conyers Report on the 2004 Presidential Election. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2005. DeHaven-Smith, Lance. The Battle for Florida: An Annotated Compendium of Materials from the 2000 Presidential Election. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. DeHaven-Smith, Lance. Letter on the issue of election fraud. News […]
Should ABC Have Yanked The Path to 9/11?
by WS Editors | Sep 15, 2006 | MediaIt’s an argument as old as the movies themselves: what obligation does Hollywood have to history? When filmmakers claim they are depicting a real event, do they enjoy complete dramatic license? Are they free to create fictional characters, compress time, conflate some events and erase others, invent dialogue, and put real people in fictional situations? […]
Do-Nothing Foreign Policy | Election Ammunition | Republican Airwaves
by WS Editors | Aug 1, 2006 | Foreign Policy, MediaWanted: A Foreign Policy—Since the Bush administration decided to abandon its doctrine of pre-emptive military force in the wreckage and rubble of Iraq, conservative hawks have begun labeling President Bush “weak,” “soft,” and “Clintonian.” The cover of Time heralded “the end of cowboy diplomacy.” The establishment journal Foreign Affairs echoed this with “The End of the Bush Revolution.” All […]
Bush Rebuked by High Court | Voting Down Voting Rights | “Darfur Is Dying”
by WS Editors | Jul 15, 2006 | Legal Affairs, MediaFull Court Press—The Supreme Court’s last week of the summer began with decisions upholding the death penalty in Kansas, overturning strict campaign-finance laws in Vermont and largely approving Tom DeLay’s redistricting power-grab in Texas. Conservatives seemed to be getting everything they wanted from the new Roberts-Alito court until the end of the week. Then the […]
Bad Faith Documentary
