AUSTIN — What a glorious year for the summer reading list! Enough gems to stock any list — fiction and non-, funny and tragic, sometimes both simultaneously; plus a perfect plethora of peppy public policy books.
But there are two...
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01 July 2001
In a five day period in early May, the United States was justifiably slapped around at the United Nations. It’s about time. While the mainstream media encourages U.S. citizens to angerly mutter “Why are they picking on us? We’re so...
01 July 2001
As police fired rubber bullets through tear gas in Quebec City, many reporters echoed the claim that “free trade” promotes democracy. Meanwhile, protesters struggled to shed light on a key fact: The proposed hemispheric trade pact would...
01 July 2001
Breaking news in the death penalty case of Mumia Abu Jamal, convicted of killing a police officer -- another man has confessed to the murder. The confession appears in the affidavit below.
Presented at May 4, 2001 Philadelphia Press...
01 July 2001
This morning while I was blissfully snoozing, Tim McVeigh was put to sleep like a rabid dog. I can’t help but see the irony in his lethal injection. After much public talk McVeigh chose to embrace the same end that awaits most family pets...
16 May 2001
The West Memphis Three are Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. The police and people of West Memphis, Arkansas conducted a
Satanic Panic-induced witch-hunt for the brutal
murders of three 8-year-old boys. This isn’t a...
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