Category: Politics
Hurricane Katrina: Destroying Lives, Destroying Illusions
by WS Editors | Sep 15, 2005 | Environment, National SecurityThe flood is receding from the streets of New Orleans, but the Crescent City and the wider Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama will be prostrate for the foreseeable future. At press time, the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, has “strongly encouraged” all remaining residents to leave the city to escape the threat […]
Cindy Sheehan’s Texas Vigil
by Tom Engelhardt | Sep 1, 2005 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityDuring our short August break, we were transfixed by the televised images of Cindy Sheehan and her vigil near the president’s home in Crawford, Texas. We asked our friend, the political observer Tom Engelhardt, to sum up this development for our readers. Engelhardt, who runs the Nation Institute’s Tomdispatch.com website, is the author of The End of Victory […]
Cindy and the Media | Talk of Iraq Withdrawal in Congress | It’s Getting Hot in Here
by WS Editors | Sep 1, 2005 | Foreign Policy, MediaWhat Took the Media So Long?—Cindy Sheehan is not a recent phenomenon, even though the mainstream media are treating her as such. She began speaking out after her son Casey’s death on April 4, 2004, forming a small organization, Gold Star Families for Peace, and contributing to the antiwar website LewRockwell.com. In March, The Nation featured Sheehan on […]
A New Book Smearing Senator Clinton Sells Well
by Fredric Alan Maxwell | Aug 1, 2005 | Books, PoliticsIt is called: The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She’ll Go to Become President. It is by Edward Klein, and has a title almost as slimy as its text. The Klein book, with its ugly rhetoric, insinuations and smears, has dropped from No. 2 to No. 4 on […]
A Multimillion-Dollar Scam Finally Gets Some Close Scrutiny
by Roberta Baskin | Jul 15, 2005 | EconomyWhen we heard about a stunning report on lobbying that was discussed on National Public Radio, we presumed there wouldn’t be much coverage of it in the major media, and we were right. But the Center for Public Integrity, the non-partisan Washington research group that compiled the report made it all fairly visible. We asked Roberta […]
Bad Faith Documentary
