To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Hey Congress, What About The ‘Doug Jones Average’?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER To report on how our economy is doing, media outlets keep a constant eye on the Dow Jones Average. But they’re like cats watching the wrong mouse hole, for the great majority of Americans have between zero and next-to-nothing in the stock market. The economic measure that matters most to most folks […]
The War Against Battered And Confused Addicts
BY FROMA HARROP Rodney King’s best statement isn’t what he’s famous for. Twenty years ago, the African-American suffered a sadistic beating at the hands of white Los Angeles police, an event caught on tape. When the officers were acquitted of brutality charges, rioting convulsed largely black South Central Los Angeles. The pandemonium cost 53 lives […]
The Ongoing Farce Of The Green Summits
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The predictable word is in from Rio de Janeiro: failure. The conference 20 years on from the huge 1992 Earth Summit in Rio has been unable to produce even the pretense of an energetic verbal commitment of the world’s community to sustainable principles. The reason? These conferences have always been a fraud, […]
Republicans Swoon Over Holder’s ‘Partisan’ Leak Probers [and Forget Ken Starr]
BY JOE CONASON This week, Republicans on Capitol Hill opened yet another front in their continuous sniping against the Obama Administration, the Justice Department and Attorney General Eric Holder. Having demanded a federal investigation of intelligence leaks, they now claim to be outraged because Holder has asked two United States attorneys to conduct that probe […]
The Long, Hot Summer Of Work
BY FROMA HARROP With summer’s arrival comes a journalistic convention that seems more and more dated. It is the “summer reading list” of books, often beside a graphic showing a bathing suit and sunglasses. Sure, I’d like to check out Douglas Brinkley’s biography of Walter Cronkite and Hilary Mantel’s sequel to Wolf Hall. Heck, I’d […]
