With U.S. troops occupying Iraq and the Bush administration making
bellicose noises about Syria, let's consider some rarely mentioned words
from the most revered writer in American history.
In times of war, journalists can serve as vital witnesses for the
people of the world. So it's especially sinister when governments take
aim at reporters and photographers.
AUSTIN, Texas -- Oh good. It looks as though we're going to have
as big a fight over postwar plans for Iraq as we did over the war itself.
Just what we need, more of everybody being at everybody else's throat.
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Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards observed the other day that the
price of gasoline has gone so high in Texas that women who want to run over
their husbands have to carpool.
Minutes after the dawn spread daylight across the Iraqi desert,
"embedded" CNN correspondent Walter Rodgers was on the air with a live
report. Another employee at the network, former U.S. Gen. Wesley
Clark -- on the job in a TV studio...
The time has come when silence is betrayal of the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Rev. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 – exactly one year after, to the day, he delivered his most profound indictment of U.S. militarism. His “...