When Martin Luther King Jr. publicly referred to “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government,” he had no way of knowing that his description would ring so true 40 years later. As the autumn of 2007 begins,...
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11 September 2007
Six years it has been. Six years so very long ago, and six years still very short.
A child born that terrible blue sky morning prepares this September to head off to school. A freshman made suddenly aware the meaning of real...
A child born that terrible blue sky morning prepares this September to head off to school. A freshman made suddenly aware the meaning of real...
11 September 2007
It evokes a tragedy that marks an epoch. From the outset, the warfare state has exploited "9/11," a label at once too facile and too laden with historic weight -- giving further power to the tacit political axiom that perception is reality...
10 September 2007
Are you here to communicate your own view, that of the White House, or both?
Please name all the people with whom you have had communications in preparing for this testimony.
What does the White House expect from...
Please name all the people with whom you have had communications in preparing for this testimony.
What does the White House expect from...
10 September 2007
It's hard to keep up with the crazed weather. As I write, a heat wave has killed over 50 people in the Midwest and South, with temperatures reaching 112 degrees in Evening Shade, Arkansas. Torrential storms have flooded Ohio, Minnesota,...
07 September 2007
I spent a day meeting with Congress Members and their staffers, urging them to end the occupation of Iraq, and having them tell me they would never "defund our troops." In the evening I watched Paul Haggis's new film "In the Valley of...
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