Stories by Doug Ireland
Doug Ireland writes the blog, Direland.
The U.N. has finally recognized that there is a widespread purge being carried out against Iraq's GLBT community.
Posted on Feb 1, 2007
Gary Webb, the legendary journalist who scooped the big papers and found himself punished for it, teaches the lesson that it's often dangerous to speak truth to power.
Posted on Oct 13, 2006
President Bush may find himself in deep trouble after ordering and defending illegal wiretaps of U.S. citizens -- a crime for which Richard Nixon was nearly impeached.
Posted on Dec 20, 2005
With 30-year-old roots and a familiar story, the riots should be about as shocking as the outcome of an Egyptian election.
Posted on Nov 8, 2005
A torture victim provides a frightening first-hand account of the Islamic Republic of Iran's extensive anti-gay crackdown.
Posted on Sep 27, 2005
The Christian right has launched a series of boycotts and pressure campaigns aimed at corporate America -- and at its sponsorship of entertainment, programs and activities they don't like.
Posted on Jun 13, 2005
Is Madonna betraying the gay community over her adherence to Kabbalah? Boy George says so, loudly.
Posted on Mar 21, 2005
Despite some rabid opposition, Howard Dean becomes the man to beat in the race for chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Posted on Jan 21, 2005
Ben Barnes' revelations on 60 Minutes have shaken the White House, but CBS' timidity has kept us from learning about the dirty politics Bush learned in Alabama.
Posted on Sep 9, 2004
There's more to New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey's resignation than the shame of an affair.
Posted on Aug 20, 2004
Despite a lot of talk about torture being "un-American," Congress is quietly keeping alive the School of the Americas, our country's infamous torture-training school.
Posted on Jul 22, 2004
New guidelines from Bush's Centers for Disease Control gut HIV-prevention education, and cause outrage and anguish among leaders in the AIDS community.
Posted on Jun 24, 2004
Tracing the Halliburton money trail to Nigeria.
Posted on Jun 21, 2004
Dems, don't start measuring curtains for the Oval Office just yet. Those who think Kerry has an easy coast toward November haven't taken a look at the big picture.
Posted on Mar 3, 2004
Bob Shrum is Sen. John Kerry's pricey Washington hired gun and master of the slash-and-burn negative campaign ad. But can he beat Karl Rove?
Posted on Feb 13, 2004
Bush’s speech brought the world to the most dangerous moment in its history since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
Posted on Mar 19, 2003
The Bush administration may not attack Baghdad now, but reserve the Saddam card for the next presidential elections.
Posted on Sep 9, 2002
The rise of neo-fascist Le Pen in France offers a simple lesson: when a left-wing government institutes right-wing policies, it clears the way for extremists.
Posted on Apr 29, 2002
The specter of the extreme right is hanging over Europe. Left-center alliances are on the run as the global war on terror encourages the rise of right-wing hysteria.
Posted on Feb 28, 2002
Nader says he's been preoccupied with wrapping up his campaign for the last few weeks. But there's more to his absence from public life than he's willing to admit.
Posted on Feb 13, 2001
Under the disasterous "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, stories of gays and lesbians in the military suffering harassment, expulsions, beatings and death have become all too common.
Posted on Jul 4, 2000
A whole new generation of lesbian and gay adolescents -- brave, tough, resilient, and comfortable with their sexual identity -- are coming out at earlier ages, and inventing their own organizations. Many are being victimized by violence and harassment in their schools -- but these kids are standing strong, and won't tolerate harassment.
Posted on May 10, 2000
Ireland writes, "The White House formula for containing the skein of scandals surrounding the Clintons is clear: Keep the worst news from bubbling to the surface until the 1996 campaign season -- and then dismiss any investigative attacks on the Clintons as election-year politicking. This stratagem counted heavily on America's short attention span, and it seems to have worked. But damning new evidence has recently emerged, and it deepens the legal jeopardy of the 'First Family.'"
Posted on Apr 26, 2000
Ireland writes, "The notion that the failing institution of heterosexual marriage is collapsing because of same-sex unions is simply loony. No state currently allows gays to legally marry, although a case now making its way through the Hawaii courts may make it through. DOMA is a pre-emptive strike attempting to abrogate the constitutional requirement that states give 'full faith and credit' to laws of other states in the even that Hawaii begins sanctioning gay marriages."
Posted on Apr 26, 2000
