The Voices

progressive.org — Latin America, which experienced its own Sept. 11 35 years ago, is no longer under Washington’s thumb. On Sept. 11, 1973, the Chilean military, supported by Washington, overthrew the democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende. It was a day that was burned in the memories of millions of people across the continent.

Read Full Article »

online.wsj.com — Millions of voters have moved out of the political party system. The decline of loyalty has made politics less stable and predictable — and has resulted in close elections.

Read Full Article »

news.newamericamedia.org — A week in the Twin Cities revealed the manifestation of events like Columbine, the Seattle WTO protests, and the Oklahoma City bombing in the faces of the young white men of two movements well outside the walls of the convention; groups of men without a political home.

Read Full Article »

truthdig.com — I suppose I should be sad to watch the decline of the once mighty political media, an institution that trained and nurtured me. But that’s not how I feel. For this was the institution that cheered when President Bush took us to war.

Read Full Article »

openleft.com — Enjoy your dithering over dining choices while you can, folks, because the day is coming when you may not have the luxury of choosing the lobster over the London broil. For those with a more populist palate, I've got some bad news, too; a future with no more fried clam strips or canned tuna, for you.

Read Full Article »

news.newamericamedia.org — On the eve of the Beijing Olympics, while Bush was preparing to express his "deep concerns" over China's human rights record, Chinese immigrant Hiu Lui Ng was dying in the custody of our great nation's own U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. For months, 33-year-old Mr. Ng had complained of excruciating back pain. Officials accused him of faking it.

Read Full Article »

truthdig.com — Sen. Lindsey Graham and the rest of John McCain's front-line surrogates know full well what messages they're sending about Barack Obama and race. On the off chance that they — or some of the white voters they're trying to reach — don't know text from subtext from context, here's a deconstruction.

Read Full Article »

news.newamericamedia.org — The House of Representative's vote to apologize for the horror of slavery was an easy call. It was also — like those passed in several states — mild, innocuous, and ultimately toothless. In truth that's all they were supposed to be. But the House resolution was still important. It was tacit acknowledgment of something that the slavery apology opponents vehemently deny and that is that slavery was not just the evil doings of greedy Southern planters.

Read Full Article »

huffingtonpost.com — It's time that McCain's acolytes and the mainstream media stopped assuming that his extraordinary military service nearly 40 years ago gives him immunity to questions about being President today, in a different century.

Read Full Article »