Everywhere we look, it's Enron, in the biggest tumult over
corporate criminality since the looting of the S&Ls in the 1980s. Enron will
be on the menu for months, if not years. Congress launches into at least
eight separate...
20 January 2002
The disjuncture these days between reality and what one reads in
the press here is pretty much absolute. The other day I opened up the San
Francisco Chronicle and found a piece hailing what the writer described as
something most...
18 January 2002
Delegates from all parts of the U.S. gathered in Washington DC June 15-18 to attend the Education for Peace in Iraq Center’s (EPIC) Iraq Forum and to lobby members of congress to lift economic sanctions and oppose prominent hardliners...
16 January 2002
At its January meeting, the Coordinating Committee of the Green Party of
Ohio
committed to working on a campaign to enact a Living Wage ordinance in the
City of Columbus. A living wage ordinance would require employers who
receive...
16 January 2002
If terrorists turn a US nuclear plant into
a radioactive holocaust, the House of
Representatives wants you to pay for it. But the Senate can still say otherwise.
The House voted November 28 in virtual secret to shield new...
The House voted November 28 in virtual secret to shield new...
16 January 2002
How many people do you know who claim to be skeptical,
who pride themselves on their distrust for authority, who
like to pretend that they’re wise to the ways of the world — and then, every time there’s a war, they swallow the lies of...