2003

Edward Said, 67, Dies (12/9/2003) - Well known Palestinian intellectual made his mark with Orientalism and his strident criticism of Israel.
Worldwatch Institute on Agricultural Subsidies (12/9/2003) - The United States and Europe have a moral duty to eliminate agricultural subsidies.
China Arrests Internet Dissident (12/9/2003) - Man faces up to 15 years in jail for posting anti-government political views.
One Man's Abortion Clinic Bomber Is Another Man's Freedom Fighter (12/9/2003) - Ted Rall writes in defense of arson as a defensible tool of political protest.
Germany Arrests Alleged East German Assassin (12/8/2003) - Man supposedly was member of long-rumored Stasi death squad.
Could Cynthia McKinney Win the Green Party Nomination for President? (12/8/2003) - Green Party spokesman says Green Party and McKinney would be a good fit.
BBC Profile of "Human Shield" Faith Fippinger (12/8/2003) - Both Fippinger and the U.S. Treasury Department seem to have selective views of freedom of speech.
Vacation in North Korea (12/4/2003) - If you're looking for all Kim Il Sung all the time, North Korea's the place to be.
How Do I Hate John Ashcroft? Let Me Count the Ways (12/4/2003) - Ashcroft is an embarassment, and his continued employment says volumes about the Bush administration.
George Monbiot on the Myth of Localism (12/4/2003) - Monbiot, of all people, punctures the Green localism fetish.
Where's the Museum to Memorialize Communism's Victims? (12/4/2003) - There should be a monument and museum in Washington, DC to memoralize the millions murder by communism and the role played by the heroes who helped defeat it in the Soviet Union and elsewhere.
On the Accomplishments of North Korea (12/4/2003) - Workers World Party hack goes on and on about the achievements of North Korea.
North Korea's Nuclear Program -- It's All the Fault of the United States (12/4/2003) - More whitewashing of North Korea courtesy of the Boston Globe.
South Korean Police Block Attempt to Send Radios to North Korea (12/4/2003) - North Korean-made radios can only tune in government-run broadcasts.
Jonathan Schell on the Importance of Losing the War in Iraq (12/4/2003) - Schell writes in the nation on the need for the United States to lose in Iraq.
Doris Haddock on the Evils of Computerized Telephone Switchboards (12/3/2003) - Haddock puts her fingers on the pulse of contemporary American tyranny.
Norman Solomon Dissects Howard Dean and the Green Party (12/3/2003) - Solomon rejects Dean and Nader for Quixotic Kucinich.
Office for Civil Rights Issues Letter Clarifying Regulation of Speech on Campuses (12/3/2003) - Letter informs colleges and universities that OCR regulations do not permit limitations on student's expressive speech.
FIRE's Fight Against Speech Codes (12/3/2003) - Why hasn't anyone stepped up to the plate before to take on speech codes at colleges and universities?
O'Reilly vs. Franken -- A Battle of Dimwits (11/13/2003) - Neither of these morons deserves the place of prominence they have on bestseller lists and media coverage.
Bill Moyers Resolves Long-Standing Scientific Mystery (9/8/2003) - Who knew Moyers was an expert on ancient climatology?
Greg Palast At It Again (9/8/2003) - Thank goodness the power grid isn't dependent on Palast's brain power.
Greg Palast is Lying about Cynthia McKinney (9/8/2003) - When is a fabricated quote not a fabricated quote?
Vietnam Reduces Sentence for Dissident (9/8/2003) - Surprising news given the incendiary nature of what Pham Hong Son posted on the Internet.
The Moron Factor (9/8/2003) - How do I despise Bill O'Reilly? Let me count the ways.
I Screwed Up On Cuba Crackdown Story (9/7/2003) - It turns out some Leftists did want to make a statement in the wake of Cuba's crackdown on dissidents.
Keith Windschuttle on Noam Chomsky (9/7/2003) - Australian historian highlights Chomsky's hypocrisy on violence and terror.
United Nations Agrees to Cambodian Genocide Court (9/7/2003) - But does Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen really want a genocide trial?
Cuba Tries to Discredit Dissident -- And Where Was the Leftist During the Crackdown? (9/7/2003) - Cuba throws dissidents in jail . . . and it's all the fault of the imperialist Americans.
Kucinich Whines about Law He Helped Pass (9/7/2003) - Presumably the presidential candidate didn't think the Transportation Security Act would apply to elites like him.
Researchers: More Than 1,000 People Died Trying to Flee Communist East Germany (9/6/2003) - Latest count finds 1,008 people died trying to make it out of East Germany after the 1957 construction of the Berlin Wall.
U.S. Government Goes After Human Shields (9/6/2003) - Government tries to fine individuals for violationg sanctions with Iraq, but is being a voluntary human shield legal under the Fourth Geneva Convention?
Russian Writers and Others Claim "Censure" of Soviet-Era Dissidents (8/28/2003) - Letter says Soviet-era dissident writers are being blacklisted, undermining the need to instill democratic values.
North Korea Apparently Channeling I.F. Stone (8/28/2003) - The BBC profiles North Korea's revisionist history of the Korean War -- a history that suckered in people like I.F. Stone who fell for the propaganda hook, line and sinker.
The Bush Rape Non-Story (8/28/2003) - Should the press simply report everything, no matter how bogus?
Cuban Revolution Turns 50 (8/28/2003) - It may be poor and hungry, but Fidel says there is no alienation in Cuba.
The Philip Foner Controversy (8/28/2003) - Foner engaged in serial plagiarism, cited documents he couldn't possibly have examined, and apparently destroyed union records to make sure they were unavailable to future historians. But he was a Stalinist, so of course all the usual suspects still hail his work.
Fuck the Communists (8/28/2003) - Where can I get one of these t-shirts?
Did Stalin Try to Kill John Wayne? (8/28/2003) - Wayne biographer publishes fourth-hand claims of assassination plot as well as Wayne's heroics in foiling the KGB.
I'm Ungodly and Hate My Children (8/28/2003) - Seriously.
Joe McCarthy Was Right, Redux (7/29/2003) - "Accuracy" In Media joins growing list of conservatives trying to rehabilitate Sen. Joe McCarthy.
Naomi Klein Identifies McCarthyite Blacklist (7/29/2003) - It is disturbing to see the McCarthyite tactics that some web sites resort to.
What Does Danny Schecter Know? Not Very Much (7/29/2003) - Hint -- don't complain about superficial, inaccurate media coverage if you're going to simultaneously include superficial, inaccurate coverage
German Researchers Begin Examining Last Stasi Files (7/29/2003) - Revelations likely to focus attention on West German and other spies for the East German regime.
Bizarro World: U.S. and Vietnam on Trade (7/23/2003) - Communists and capitalist switch sides when it comes to the textile trade.
The BBC on Another Imperialist American War of Aggression (7/23/2003) - The BBC's take on the Korean War.
NYT Profile of Charlotte Kates (7/22/2003) - Chris Hedges profiles a Left wing nutcase who complains about a lack of free speech in universities while she proclaims her admiration for Lenin and the Shining Path.
Thabo Mbeki on Progressive Politics (7/22/2003) - It's the collectivism, stupid.
Vietnam Flushes Newspaper That Flushed Ho Chi Minh (7/21/2003) - Hilarious pranks in newspaper aimed at students earns the media outlet a suspension on publication from Vietnam's Ministry of Culture.
Should Socialist Parties and Candidates Be Exempt from FEC Reporting? (7/21/2003) - The Socialist Workers Party gets an extension of its exemption from FEC disclosure requirements.
ProtestWarrior.Com Goes Too Far (6/25/2003) - Culture jamming anti-war protests in public places is fine, but smuggling hidden cameras into planning meetings crosses the line.
Hypocrisy Over Commencement Protests (6/8/2003) - When is persistently heckling and booing a commencement speaker a horrible suppression of free speech? Only when it's left-liberals being shouted down.
Senate Releases Transcripts of Secret McCarthy Hearings (6/8/2003) - The Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations releases transcripts of private hearings featuring Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn badgering witnesses over absurdly tangential connections to Communism.
City Journal vs. New York Times on the Black Panthers (6/4/2003) - Both publications should do a bit more fact checking before writing about Huey Newton and the Panthers.
Michael Moore: Style vs. Substance (6/4/2003) - Is Michael Moore's big problem that he's constantly distorting the truth or rather that his style doesn't lend itself to building left-liberal movements?
70 Years Later: Is the Pulitzer Prize Committee Finally Considering Revoking Duranty's Prize? (6/3/2003) - New York Times reporter Walter Duranty won the Pulitzer Prize for his sycophantic coverage of Stalin's 5 year plan.
Project Censored Chooses an Appropriate Speaker (5/24/2003) - Soviet apologist Michael Parenti and Project Censored certainly deserve each other.
Why Phil Donahue's Call for "Tolerance" Rings Hollow (5/20/2003) - Should we have tolerance for ideas that we disagree with?
Are Consumer Boycotts McCarthyist Threats to Free Speech? (5/19/2003) - What sort of Left winger things a consumer boycott of a giant corporation amounts to McCarthyism?
Michael Moore: Bush Is Protecting Osama Bin Laden (5/15/2003) - Moore says the Bush administration knows where Bin Laden is hiding, but won't arrest or kill him because it is protecting its Saudi Arabian allies.
Let A Million Mogadishus Bloom, Part II (4/2/2003) - Ah, the evil of the reactionary right -- how dare they highlight the idiotic statements of an anti-war professor.
Let A Million Mogadishus Bloom (3/28/2003) - Leftist university professor hopes for "a million Mogadishus" in U.S. war against Iraq.
Robert Scheer Offers a Post-War Preview (3/28/2003) - If Americans find chemical weapons in Iraq, that of course will only prove to the Left just how corrupt the Bush administration is.
Scott Ritter Returns . . . to Predict Impending U.S. Defeat (3/26/2003) - Ritter says that the United States doesn't have enough troops to occupy Baghdad, so defeat in Iraq is inevitable.
Tim Robbins Puts His Principles to Work (3/25/2003) -
Michael Moore's Making Fictitious Documentaries about "Fictitious Times" (3/24/2003) - Living in Moore's fictitious America, where the truth is whatever you want it to be.
Screen Actors Guild -- Look Out, the Black Lists Are Coming (3/20/2003) - People boycott Left wing celebrities -- it's the return of the black list!!!
The Warnings of History -- Don't Expect the Left to Get It Right (3/20/2003) - If Bush is Hitler, then does that mean the Left will stop protesting him if he signs a nonagression pact with a Communist nation?
Michael Moore's Letter to Bush (3/20/2003) - Moore sends a typically factually challenged letter to Bush over the war with Iraq.
The Debate Over Palestinian Prime Minister's Holocaust Denying Past (3/17/2003) - Is the fact that the newly appointed Palestinian prime minister wrote a book denying the Holocaust and proposing bizarre Jewish conspiracies relevant?
Eric Alterman: Hey, I'm No More Insensitive Than Rush Limbaugh! (2/13/2003) -
Tom Paine, Tom Tomorrow, and Michael Moore (1/13/2003) - Michael Moore's defenders doth complain too much.