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Stories by Sean Gonsalves

Sean Gonsalves is a syndicated columnist and news editor with the Cape Cod Times.

Eleven Reasons to Give Actors a Break

What's up with these talk radio hosts and TV pundits getting all hot and bothered over Hollywood celebs who have spoken out against the war?
Posted on Mar 17, 2003, Source: AlterNet

Chess Anyone?

Just when it seems there are no more options left on the board, a new move opens up--a nonviolent way of checkmating Saddam, or at least leaving him in stalemate.
Posted on Jan 31, 2003, Source: AlterNet

Impervious Piles of Wealth

A compelling new book explains why estate tax repeal is an economically and morally bankrupt proposal.
Posted on Jan 21, 2003, Source: AlterNet

A Time To Break Silence

What would Martin Luther King Jr. think of the war on Iraq? His 1967 speech provides some insight.
Posted on Jan 14, 2003, Source: AlterNet

The Costs of Killer Training

How did we become a nation full of people who want to make others feel their pain? Ask John Allen Muhammed.
Posted on Oct 28, 2002, Source: AlterNet

Trim the Workweek, Not the Workforce

We need to find a way to reduce work hours without reducing worker's income. And then there's the problem of health care costs.
Posted on Oct 21, 2002, Source: AlterNet

The Circular Logic of War

If we are ready to attack Iraq because we know that Iraq cannot retaliate in kind, does it not mean that Iraq really isn't the threat the hawks assert it to be?
Posted on Sep 27, 2002, Source: AlterNet

Off the Beaten 9/11 Path

The events of 9/11 should be commemorated not with patriotism or mass despair, but with a call for peace and compassion.  And activists across the country plan to do exactly that.
Posted on Sep 9, 2002, Source: AlterNet

Connecting the Energy Dots to Afghanistan

While the media has most of us looking at Afghanistan as a war-torn haven of terrorists, energy companies see the country as a treasure trove of undeveloped resources.
Posted on Sep 5, 2002, Source: AlterNet

Call In the Real Iraq Experts

Conspicuously absent from last week's Senate hearings on whether the U.S. should go to war in Iraq were the experts with the most vital information.
Posted on Aug 7, 2002, Source: AlterNet

Africa Needs Aid That Works

Rockstar Bono and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill are teaming up to help sub-Saharan nations. Is their tour going to produce concrete results or just great PR?
Posted on May 29, 2002, Source: AlterNet

White Supremacists Take Note -- Abuse at Groton

A large percentage of Americans still believe that blacks are less intelligent, lazier and more prone to violence. But what about allegations of abuse in the elite, lily-white Groton boarding school?
Posted on Sep 5, 2001, Source: AlterNet

The Opposite of Racism Isn't Colorblindness

To suggest that we should be colorblind, by ending affirmative action or denying reparations, is to ignore the impacts of discrimination on blacks.
Posted on Aug 21, 2001, Source: AlterNet

Education Not Incarceration

The U.S. has locked up two million prisoners in an epidemic of incarceration, thanks to the war on drugs. What would an alternative drug policy look like -- one based on expanded social conciousness?
Posted on Aug 8, 2001, Source: AlterNet

Blacks, Whites and the R-word: Continuing the Conversation

The heavy volume of feedback I received from whites in response to last week's "Blacks Should Stop Calling Whites Racist" is evidence that this dialogue needs to continue.
Posted on Jul 31, 2001, Source: AlterNet

Blacks Should Stop Calling Whites Racist

If black-white race relations in America are to move beyond the current impasse, black folks ought to stop referring to white brothers and sisters as "racist."
Posted on Jul 24, 2001, Source: AlterNet

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