Robert Naiman is the National Coordinator of Just Foreign Policy, a membership organization devoted to reforming U.S. foreign policy so that it reflects the values and serves the interests of the majority of Americans. Just Foreign Policy is working to avoid a military confrontation between the United States and Iran. Naiman was formerly Senior Policy […]
Albert Bates is a permaculture instructor at the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm community in Summertown, Tennessee and a Pulitzer Prize losing author of eleven books, including Shutdown: Nuclear Power on Trial (1979) and Climate in Crisis: The Greenhouse Effect and What We Can Do (1990). His Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes […]
We can demonstrate to other nations and to terrorists both a fierce resolve to combat terrorism, and we can do it without walking out onto moral thin ice. Such resolve sometimes requires a strong military response, but it always requires a demonstration of true moral leadership by fully enacting the principles of a civil society.
From the Saginaw Spirit: Colbert Report Exclusive at Spirit Game
(Saginaw, MI) Join the Saginaw Spirit, in partnership with Comedy Central’s Colbert Report, as they unveil the newest team mascot at the September 30th home game! The unveiling will take place prior to the puck drop.
Other activities on that night include an Oktoberfest celebration and […]
Ghost in the Machine
How the 2006 Election Will Be Stolen (Rolling Stone)
Why fix the voting machines when you can “fix” the whole election?
Fox’s Chris Wallace interviews President Clinton (Think Progress)
Media Matters for America Smackdown with Elbert Ventura - Bill O’Leilly’s enemies list
Spy Agencies say Iraq Worsens Threat (NY Times)
National Intelligence Estimate, titled “Trends in […]
There’s a new member of the Liberadio(!) family, our mascot, The Colbeagle. Also, we won’t let the FCC be; President Bush had nothing to say at the United Nations yesterday; and the Iraq Study Group needs to go back and get a bigger boat. Finally, we thank you, Rick Casares. Your letter to the editor […]
If you listen to the show then you know that we (and by “we” I mean “me”) have a healthy respect (and by “respect” I mean “monkey on my back”) for the one-two late-night TV punch that is The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
If you watch Stephen Colbert then you know that he (and […]
It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day so we ask, “WWLJSPD?” or, “What Would Long John Silver’s Parrot Do?” Would he make the press walk the plank for ignoring recent research that suggests a correlation between the upcoming election and falling gas prices (or do dead men tell no tales?). Would he drink some grog […]
If we take the time to have the difficult conversations…if we reach out to one another….if we stay calm and reasonable…even the most partisan of us will undoubtedly find common ground.
Even Nathan Moore and I have found something we agree on.
Go, Mets, go!
Since Republicans have made clear that they will not allow Americans to have an open, honest debate about how best to proceed with regard to the war in Iraq, it is time for Americans to respond to the one piece of actionable intelligence at our disposal: that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has failed in his job.
