Real Immigration Reform Needed, Not Just Words

May 24, 2011 By Alvaro Huerta

Alvaro Huerta: Instead of sympathetic words for immigrants in a re-election, campaign-style format, we need for Obama to make immigration reform a top priority in lieu of pandering to a growing Latino electorate.

Depression, Not Recession Rocks U.S. Ghettos

May 24, 2011 By Sherwood Ross

Sherwood Ross: Instead of investing in a framework to help blacks advance by their own initiative, the Federal government has flushed billions down the toilets of friendly foreign strongmen such as Egypt’s Hosni Mubarek.

Militarist Madness

May 24, 2011 By Lawrence S. Wittner

Lawrence Wittner: Despite the vast rivers of blood and treasure poured into wars over the centuries, the nations of the world continue to enhance their military might.

3 A.M. in the Morning…

May 24, 2011 By Jasmyne Cannick

Jasmyne Cannick: I can’t help but wonder if the L.A.P.D. would hover over one of those Westside neighborhoods for 3 hours in the middle of the night waking up all of those good taxpaying white folks and scaring the crap of their kids like they do ours.

Arizona Building Its Own Fence

May 24, 2011 By Andrea Christina Nill

Andrea Nill: People are free to waste their money on whatever they want, but Arizona probably won’t be able to turn around and use those donations to build its own fence.

How to Rate Obama on Afghanistan

May 24, 2011 By Tom Hayden

Tom Hayden: Since there is no Peace Lobby capable of negotiating or delivering a peace vote in the old-time electoral manner, millions of individuals will are capable of evaluating, changing their minds, and withholding their votes right up to the November 2012 election.

What Now for the Unraptured?

May 23, 2011 By Tom Hall

Tom Hall: How perfect can heaven be, with 200 million new souls crowding into a facility designed by He who designed a world with shifting tectonic plates, ozone holes and republicans?

States Toss Costly Immigration Legislation

May 23, 2011 By Seth Hoy

Seth Hoy: Clearly, states attempting to take immigration law into their own hands will continue to face costly uphill battles. The question is not whether but when voters will notice that their leaders are putting politics before the state’s best economic interest.

Apocalypse September!

May 23, 2011 By Walter M. Brasch

Walter Brasch: It’s probably just a coincidence, but 1988 was also the same year that George Bush, whom Sadaam Hussein called The Great Satan, was elected president.

Obama Troop Surge Decision Ignored Pak-Taliban Ties

May 23, 2011 By Gareth Porter

Gareth Porter: The unilateral U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden created a spike in mutual recriminations between U.S. and Pakistani politicians, but their fundamental conflict of interest over Afghanistan was already driving the two countries toward serious confrontation.

Secretly, Netanyahu Agrees to Pre-1967 Borders

May 23, 2011 By Carl Matthes

Carl Matthes: There they were – all over TV – two men sitting, looking at each other. One sternly intense. The other looking defensive, almost scrunched into his chair.

GOP Has an Extremist Problem

May 23, 2011 By Brent Budowsky

Brent Budowsky: Now Rick Santorum attacks John McCain on the issue of torture. It is amazing — a major party has a pro-torture wing.

Living on the Edge

May 21, 2011 By Rev. Dr. Jim Nelson

Jim Nelson: Remember those times? Times when you took a leap? A time when you had courage, were not afraid, or were afraid but went ahead anyway, a time when you took a risk and experienced the thrill of having come through alright? Remember being on the edge?

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Power, Sex, and Money

May 21, 2011 By Carl Matthes

Carl Matthes: Imagine, the finest and best that God could call from His earthly flock to serve in His Holy Church did nothing wrong because when they were molesting young children, they were just “responding to social turmoil.”