Stories by Geov Parrish
Geov Parrish is a Seattle-based columnist and reporter for Seattle Weekly, In These Times and Eat the State! He writes the Straight Shot column for WorkingForChange.
Has providing information become a threat to Homeland Security? The crackdown on Internet free speech has begun in earnest.
Posted on Dec 13, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
I want a full accounting of every weapon in the country. Not Iraq; the United States government -- and I want it in three weeks.
Posted on Dec 10, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The real aim of the Bush administration's expedient sabr-rattling is to distract the public while it undertakes a policy of permanent global warfare.
Posted on Dec 4, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
It's been a ferociously bad week. Not just for privacy, but for the potential for government abuse.
Posted on Nov 22, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The anti-war movement needs a strong argument against attacking Iraq. Here's one: Osama bin Laden would be delighted if we did.
Posted on Nov 14, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Chechnya is one of several places in the world at the moment where the word "genocide" is being used by reasonable people.
Posted on Nov 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The trafficking of human beings is a polite phrase for slavery -- not the abstract kind, wherein we call a banal job we need to help pay the rent "wage slavery," but the real kind, where one is kept by force, can't escape, and is bought and sold.
Posted on Oct 31, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The arrest of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad reveals the dangers of a highly militarized society in which so many citizens live in alienation, fear and poverty.
Posted on Oct 25, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Even if Bush can somehow overcome widespread global opposition to his war in Iraq, his military analysts are terrified that the Empire might very well lose.
Posted on Oct 21, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Lapsed liberals, soccer moms, expense-account dads, military veterans and Americans of all stripes are angry about Iraq. But will it be enough to launch a full-scale movement?
Posted on Oct 15, 2002, Source: In These Times
As Congress gears up to vote on invading Iraq, the public must turn up the pressure and intensify the opposition to war.
Posted on Sep 27, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The annual radio convention hosted by the nation's most powerful broadcast lobby was all about one thing: advertising, and more of it.
Posted on Sep 23, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The Iraqis may have agreed to weapon inspections, but the campaign for "regime change" in Baghdad continues. And most other nations will go along -- for a price.
Posted on Sep 17, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Forced to use other means of transportation post-9/11, travelers realized just how annoying flying really is.
Posted on Aug 27, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Ashcroft's vision for homeland security has tens of millions of patriotic Americans participating in a for-profit effort to root out the terrorists -- America's Most Wanted.
Posted on Aug 12, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Operation TIPS was soundly rejected by the American public. Let's hope they do the same with the rest of the Dubya jihad.
Posted on Jul 25, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Nevada is a fragile ecosystem, and Yucca Mountain is fraught with problems. Let's put the world's nuclear waste somewhere it'll fit in better...
Posted on Jul 25, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Nine months after September 11, hundreds of detainees remain behind bars, shrouded in secrecy.
Posted on Jul 2, 2002, Source: In These Times
The Bush administration's threat to withdraw from peacekeeping operations around the world is a grand old "screw you" to the world community
Posted on Jul 2, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
An intrepid reporter braves tiger pits, marathoners, and countless umlauts to get to the bottom of the Biggest Box -- Ikea.
Posted on Jun 10, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The Indian and Pakistani governments are not crazy -- they are just emulating the geopolitical arrogance of the United States. And Washington is doing little to stop them.
Posted on Jun 6, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The Bush administration has found the perfect post-9/11 spin strategy: repeatedly hit the panic button so no one asks the really important questions.
Posted on May 21, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The release of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is a triumph for non-violent movements everywhere.
Posted on May 7, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
May Day, which began as a workers' campaign for an eight-hour day, is celebrated everywhere except in the U.S. We need that day to remind us to make time for work and life in between.
Posted on May 1, 2002, Source: AlterNet
The restoration of president Hugo Chavez to power still leaves the fundamental divide between Venezuela's poor and its oligarchs, especially the oil companies.
Posted on Apr 15, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
What can Americans do about the horrible violence in the Middle East? Some are putting their bodies directly in the line of fire, and living to tell intimate, moving tales.
Posted on Apr 10, 2002, Source: Seattle Weekly
"The Israeli aircrafts have started firing at Aida Refugee camp" ... "The soldiers are shooting at any moving target" ... "many dead lying in the streets" ...
Posted on Apr 3, 2002, Source: AlterNet
When misleading military dispatches -- which support an expansion of U.S. role in the Colombian war -- show up in New York Times articles, we know that the Pentagon is hard at work.
Posted on Mar 8, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The Olympics are supposed to be about international peace and understanding. NBC makes it look more like a Fourth of July parade.
Posted on Feb 14, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
During America's most jingoistic sporting event, Bush spent $3.2 million to convince us that drug use = terrorism. It would be laughable nonsense if it wasn't so horribly wrong.
Posted on Feb 4, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Even as Argentina collapses, the Bush Administration has renewed a push for free trade aggreements fraught with double standards. Central and South American countries are hardly embracing the policies.
Posted on Jan 22, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
White America has turned Dr. King from an outspoken critic of corporate and government power into a warm, fuzzy non-political Hallmark Card.
Posted on Jan 14, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The federal deficit just got a whole lot bigger, now that a federal court has given corporations a huge new tax loophole to exploit.
Posted on Jan 8, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
This inspiring story about a group called Building Communities shows the kind of solutions that emerge when average, concerned citizens have the will to change society.
Posted on Jan 3, 2002, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Ding, dong, Al-Qaeda's dead. So sing headlines, pundits, and news shows across America. Of course, chances are good that Al-Qaeda still lives. But then, America has never been very good about counting the dead overseas.
Posted on Dec 26, 2001, Source: In These Times
Oxycontin is being portrayed as a menace to society, with a handful of tragedies being expropriated as proof. It's the sort of fiction that has used a very real problem -- drug abuse -- to justify a decades-long grab for government
power -- the War on Drugs.
Posted on Dec 20, 2001, Source: Seattle Weekly
With the unexpected and welcome news that Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence has been overturned, you'd think his supporters would be dancing in the streets. You'd be wrong.
Posted on Dec 20, 2001, Source: WorkingForChange.com
For nearly three weeks, I've been trying to get Attorney General John Ashcroft to answer a few invasive, personal questions. After all, that's what he wants me to do ...
Posted on Nov 27, 2001, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Humanitarian organizations warn that even before the bombing of Afghanistan began on Oct. 7, some 7,500,000 Afghans were at risk of starving to death this winter.
Posted on Nov 5, 2001, Source: WorkingForChange.com
While the outpouring of generosity and compassion appears to know no limits, many of the people directly affected by the events of Sept. 11 are getting no help at all.
Posted on Oct 30, 2001, Source: WorkingForChange.com
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