Stories by Judith Coburn
A former Vietnam War correspondent explains the eerie similarities between the Iraq and Vietnam wars -- and Bush's ever more chaotic, violent war policies.
Posted on Aug 5, 2006, Source: Tomdispatch.com
A reporter who covered Watergate says Bush has more power than Nixon's imperial presidency did in the early 1970s.
Posted on Nov 24, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
More than two years into our occupation of Iraq, there is still no official record kept of the civilian dead.
Posted on Jul 19, 2005, Source: Tomdispatch.com
Neither the U.S. military or international agencies are prepared to supply the desperate needs of a war-torn population on the edge of starvation, and nobody agrees on what should be done.
Posted on Mar 28, 2003, Source: AlterNet
"The Waiting Room," an powerful new art installation by reknown artist Richard Kamler, is currently touring through the American south and east. The exhibit recreates a waiting room that a death row inmate must pass through before execution, replete with prisoner's last meals etched in bronze and their last words hanging from drapes. Kamler hopes that his art will inspire people to take action against the barbarism and cruelty of the death penalty.
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: AlterNet
Ruth Rosen looks at the past and the present in an interview on her new book, "The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America."
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: East Bay Express