Stories by Bill Berkowitz
Bill Berkowitz is a freelance writer covering right-wing groups and movements.
The Democratic candidate appears to be trying to out-Bush Bush on foreign policy, and his positions have the centrist Democratic Leadership Council's stamp all over them.
Posted on Apr 27, 2004, Source: AlterNet
District court moves to protect a California group from the federal government's war on medical marijuana.
Posted on Apr 23, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Refusing to admit their mistakes, Bush's spokesmen in Iraq attack Arab-based media while failing in their efforts to establish alternatives.
Posted on Apr 16, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Can Team Bush's marketing machine possibly spin the current crisis into an upbeat media moment?
Posted on Apr 9, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The Pakistani military claimed they had a 'high value' Al Qaeda target in their sights, sparking a media frenzy. So what happened?
Posted on Apr 6, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Budget cuts are starving the national parks and spurring on a push towards privatization.
Posted on Apr 2, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The religious right is hoping to convince mainstream and traditionally Democratic Party-oriented African Americans that gays are sullying the history of the civil rights struggle.
Posted on Mar 29, 2004, Source: AlterNet
There are currently thousands of mercenaries serving in Iraq. Their high salaries and shorter terms of employment will inevitably make a serious dent on the military's budget -- and soldiers' morale.
Posted on Mar 24, 2004, Source: AlterNet
On the cusp of its 75th anniversary, morning radio faces some of its toughest challenges yet. What started out as an experiment with light-hearted goofiness has devolved into a world of powerful "shock jocks" and right wing demagogues.
Posted on Mar 17, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Will a newly formed Bishops Task Force aimed at holding Catholic politicians accountable for their political positions hone in on John Kerry?
Posted on Mar 11, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Victims' families are outraged by Bush's use of Ground Zero images in the first of the President's re-election advertisements.
Posted on Mar 4, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The Salvation Army -- where some charge that a belief in Christianity is part of the job description -- is being sued by former employees for religious discrimination.
Posted on Mar 2, 2004, Source: AlterNet
In their zeal to convert Muslims to Christianity, are US evangelicals ignoring the plight of Iraq's Christians?
Posted on Feb 20, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The Justice Department withdrew its supeonas of Iowa anti-war protestors but they haven't given up on criminalizing dissent.
Posted on Feb 12, 2004, Source: TomPaine.com
Over the past three years, President Bush has been plugging away at his faith-based initiative -- and it's doing better than you think.
Posted on Feb 6, 2004, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Anti-immigration and animal-rights activists are trying to hijack the nation's oldest environmental organization.
Posted on Feb 4, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The administration has thrown every conceivable roadblock in the path of the 9/11 commission and now seems intent on scuttling it altogether.
Posted on Feb 2, 2004, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Despite evidence that they don't work, Team Bush's latest anti-drug advertising campaign kicks off during the Super Bowl -- and this time, the drug is booze.
Posted on Jan 28, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Daniel Levitas, author of 'The Terrorist Next Door,' speaks about homegrown terrorists, the state of white supremacist paramilitary groups, and rising racism.
Posted on Jan 22, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Rep. Ernest Istook's anti-marijuana reform amendment is the newest in a line of cockamamie "Istook Amendments" that always seem to be circulating in Congress.
Posted on Jan 21, 2004, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Evidence disputing Bush's case for war continues to build, yet the mainstream media refuse to hold him responsible for lying to the American people.
Posted on Jan 9, 2004, Source: TomPaine.com
While we fingerprint foreigners, America's domestic terrorists are called "faith-based" activists.
Posted on Jan 7, 2004, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Military experts say the next major wars will be fought in space -- with China and Europe emerging as players in the final frontier.
Posted on Dec 8, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Tom Ridge has tons of stuff in his toy sack, but will any of it make you and your family safer?
Posted on Dec 2, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Bush Administration bungling and fumbling for answers in Iraq
Posted on Nov 14, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
While the McNabb controversy is unlikely to dent his career, the brewing scandal over Limbaugh's drug problem may just shut him up.
Posted on Oct 5, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
In its quest to get the $87 billion for military and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and boost the president's flagging poll numbers, the Bush Administration is frantically trying to cook up some good news about the situation in Iraq.
Posted on Sep 25, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
How many new teachers could we have paid for with the billions spent on the Iraqi occupation?
Posted on Sep 18, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
While soldiers who die in Iraq are duly honored, the men and women injured the war have become the new disappeared.
Posted on Sep 12, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The Bush administration claims it is making "progress" in Iraq, but the daily reports of violence, casualties, and disorder indicate otherwise.
Posted on Aug 18, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The morale of thousands of troops in Iraq is at an all time low, yet the GOP-controlled Congress 'supports the troops' by rolling back military benefits.
Posted on Jul 25, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
A round-up of Bush Administration-sponsored domestic spy ops.
Posted on Jul 22, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
CIA honcho James Bruce's push to prosecute journalists for intelligence leaks is just the most extreme example of an administration obsessed with secrecy.
Posted on Jul 9, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
The comedian has become the loudest supporter of Bush and his foreign policy in Hollywood.
Posted on Jul 7, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
What does the Head Start program have to do with President Bush's faith-based initiative? Nothing -- and everything.
Posted on Jun 30, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Police departments across the country are spying and compiling dossiers on political activists.
Posted on Jun 16, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Al-Jazeera has a greater commitment to hard-nosed journalism and the pursuit of truth than its U.S. counterparts. No wonder the Bush administration is worried.
Posted on May 11, 2003, Source: AlterNet
Fear that events in post-war Iraq are in danger of spinning out of control has led the administration to turn to a hard-nosed hawk.
Posted on May 9, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
A host of Islam-bashing fundamentalist Christian organizations are plowing the sand in Iraq for new recruits.
Posted on Apr 9, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
In recent weeks, pro-war pundits and politicians have charged peace activists and critical reporters are traitors. With war underway, how much uglier could this name-calling get?
Posted on Mar 19, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
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