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Is the time ripe for a new worldwide coalition to "green" our imperiled globe? Can we do it by restraining capitalism's exploitive sides, championing human rights, merging civic, scientific, environmental, religious and rising youth constituencies? More ... WASHINGTON The scene has stayed with me for six years: Democrat Jill Long Thompson, in the midst of a fiercely competitive race in Indiana's 2nd Congressional District, was being pressed by supporters to criticize what they saw as President Bush's rush to war in Iraq. More ... Everyone knows what the "right" answer is to the question of whether you would be willing to vote for an African-American for president. The "right" answer is yes. What's surprising is not how many people say yes, but how many don't. More ... Over the years, once in a great while, I've been surprised to cross paths with a journalist at a major TV outlet who actually seems willing and able to go outside the conventional boundaries of media discourse. That's what happened one day in the fall of 2005 at the Boston headquarters of the CN8 television network, owned and operated by the corporate media giant Comcast. More ... A remarkable thing just happened in the people's party. Democrats have chosen a candidate, in the year 2008, who does not have a plan for universal health coverage. Barack Obama caresses the words "universal coverage" almost hourly, but his proposal offers nothing of the kind - unlike the plans of Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and other Democratic hopefuls. More ... To the Editor: Having read the article in the 14 May 2008 Mountain Eagle, we wanted to present our view of the case and the lack of indictment. We do not know what instructions were given to the grand jury when they considered the case, nor what evidence was presented (or not presented) which led to the failure to indict. More ... |
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