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How Not to Vietnamize Iraq

Posted on Aug 5, 2006, Source: TomDispatch.com

A former Vietnam War correspondent explains the eerie similarities between the Iraq and Vietnam wars -- and Bush's ever more chaotic, violent war policies.

Worse than Watergate?

Posted on Nov 24, 2005, Source: TomDispatch.com

A reporter who covered Watergate says Bush has more power than Nixon's imperial presidency did in the early 1970s.

Unnamed, Unnoticed

Posted on Jul 19, 2005, Source: TomDispatch.com

More than two years into our occupation of Iraq, there is still no official record kept of the civilian dead.

The Other War: Iraq's Humanitarian Crisis

Posted on Mar 28, 2003, Source: AlterNet

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.

Turning the Death Penalty to Art

Posted on Apr 1, 2000, 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.

Welcome to the Revolution

Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: East Bay Express

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."
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