Alternative News and Information. en-us http://www.alternet.org/rss/button.gif http://www.alternet.org/ AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/ Copyright 2012 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved. http://www.alternet.org/story/39868/how_not_to_vietnamize_iraq/ A former Vietnam War correspondent explains the eerie similarities between the Iraq and Vietnam wars -- and Bush's ever more chaotic, violent war policies. Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:00:01 PDT Judith Coburn, TomDispatch.com -92fac5eca13c1cbf36c87fa05304dd8b http://www.alternet.org/story/28631/worse_than_watergate/ A reporter who covered Watergate says Bush has more power than Nixon's imperial presidency did in the early 1970s. Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:00:01 PST Judith Coburn, TomDispatch.com -0e11c5d19204c3c8e967811d54adbede http://www.alternet.org/story/23594/unnamed%2C_unnoticed/ More than two years into our occupation of Iraq, there is still no official record kept of the civilian dead. Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:00:01 PDT Judith Coburn, TomDispatch.com -0fc07cffb3f013a42c34e9d1520d4bac http://www.alternet.org/story/15501/the_other_war%3A_iraq%27s_humanitarian_crisis/ 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. Fri, 28 Mar 2003 00:00:00 PST Judith Coburn, AlterNet -649ecbcdbf3571a2a3197e021287efa1 http://www.alternet.org/story/8/turning_the_death_penalty_to_art/ "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. Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00:00 PST Judith Coburn, AlterNet -c9f0f895fb98ab9159f51fd0297e236d http://www.alternet.org/story/167/welcome_to_the_revolution/ 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." Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00:00 PST Judith Coburn, East Bay Express -5878a7ab84fb43402106c575658472fa