George Tiller: What If? George Tiller: What If?
When a person who has been targeted before is murdered, as Dr. George Tiller was, there are a lot of what ifs. What if, back in the 1990s, after the first atte...
Jun 2, 2009 / Laura Flanders
The President of Paradox The President of Paradox
It will be an historic occasion when Sonia Sotomayor takes her seat. Assuming she's confirmed, she'll be the first woman of color and the first person from the Latino commu...
May 28, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Killing the Public Option Killing the Public Option
The nation's for profit health insurers are out to scuttle anything within the Obama healthcare plan that might be in any way public. One week after the insurance lobby ...
May 21, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Pelosi or Cheney? Who’s the Torturer in Chief? Pelosi or Cheney? Who’s the Torturer in Chief?
Beltway journalists seem finally to have a found a torture story they like. Mind you, not the one about the Bush/Cheney White House possibly okaying drowning to extract &...
May 19, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Robbing Us and Paying Out Robbing Us and Paying Out
The results of the Treasury Department's touted "stress tests" are out – and so far the result is a call for massive new capital for banks. It adds up to a ...
May 12, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Killer Economics Killer Economics
We don't need a 100-day reckoning to know the score: war, recession, violence in Pakistan and now a global epidemic. The landscape before us is a pretty tense: more than t...
Apr 27, 2009 / Laura Flanders
The Answer to Obama=Hitler The Answer to Obama=Hitler
The presidential campaign had more than a smattering of it. The economic crisis is breeding lots more. Crazy talk comparing Barack Obama to Hitler went mainstream April 1...
Apr 17, 2009 / Laura Flanders
New Way Forward? New Way Forward?
Chris is keen on A New Way Forward and Zephyr wrote about the group here. I had a chance to talk with Kyle Krahel-Frolan a New Way Forward organizer when he was on a GRITtv panel ...
Apr 13, 2009 / Laura Flanders
Lesson from Vermont: Don’t Cower, Push. Lesson from Vermont: Don’t Cower, Push.
They did it. On Tuesday the Vermont legislature formally recognized that civil unions are not the same as marriage. Forgive me for saying it, but I think the Vermonters h...
Apr 9, 2009 / Laura Flanders
The A in NATO is not for Afghanistan The A in NATO is not for Afghanistan
It's a strange idea, that the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization lies in the mountains of Afghanistan. But that's just the case that President Barack Obama an...
Apr 4, 2009 / Laura Flanders